In the Hematology and Medical Oncology Fellowship, trainees complete a three-year curriculum that includes scheduled didactic sessions, journal club, clinical case conferences and bedside teaching.
Competencies & Requirements
The curriculum follows the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education competencies (patient care, procedural skills, medical knowledge, practice-based learning, interpersonal and communication skills, professionalism and system-based learning practices). Fellows will participate in cancer-related research, including translational, quality improvement, clinical trials, cancer prevention and health services opportunities. Rotations are four-week blocks.
General Overview
Year 1
- Inpatient hematology and oncology consult at Dell Seton Medical Center (4 blocks)
- Outpatient clinic rotations: VA, general hematology and oncology, and subspecialty (6 blocks)
- Palliative care (1 block)
- Research and quality improvement (2 blocks)
Year 2
- Inpatient hematology and oncology consult at Dell Seton Medical Center (2 blocks)
- Outpatient clinic rotations: VA, general hematology and oncology, and subspecialty (8 blocks)
- Radiation oncology and pathology (1 block)
- Research and quality improvement (2 blocks)
Year 3
- Outpatient clinic rotations: VA, general hematology and oncology, and subspecialty (6 blocks)
- Elective at Texas Oncology or fellow’s choice (2 blocks)
- Gynecologic oncology (1 block)
- Stem cell transplant, MD Anderson Houston (1 blocks)
- Research, other electives (3 blocks)
More Details
Inpatient rotation is at Dell Seton Medical Center, in which fellows lead a team of students and internal medicine residents providing hematology and oncology consults.
Clinical training is greater than 80% outpatient. Fellows rotate in general heme-onc clinics at the VA and the Ascension Specialty Center as well as subspecialty clinics in neuro-oncology, GI malignancies, breast cancer, gynecologic oncology and hematologic malignancies.
Fellows will also have the opportunity to conduct translational, clinical, prevention or health services research with outstanding faculty throughout The University of Texas at Austin and Dell Medical School campuses.