1 year fellowships

[MD-iwish]

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I've been looking for non-traditional fellowships after IM residency. So far the ones I've found are Diabetes, hospitalisti, and HTN. Does anyone know of a good resource for these? Also, does anyone have any insight into how beneficial a Diabetes fellowship would be? I'd like to run a glycemic team, but am wondering if I have to go the Endo route or if there's a different way. Thanks!

 

[gutonc]

I've been looking for non-traditional fellowships after IM residency. So far the ones I've found are Diabetes, hospitalisti, and HTN. Does anyone know of a good resource for these? Also, does anyone have any insight into how beneficial a Diabetes fellowship would be? I'd like to run a glycemic team, but am wondering if I have to go the Endo route or if there's a different way. Thanks!

I don't even think you need to do a "diabetes" fellowship (which I hadn't heard of before your post) in order to do DM management. All of the people who ran the DM clinic at my training program were general IM docs, only two of whom did any sort of fellowship (1 did an informatics fellowship, one did a GIM fellowship). Endo - if you want to go that route - is only 2 years, but you definitely don't need to be an endocrinologist to manage DM2.

 

[MD-iwish]

Thanks for your response.

 

[DIce3]

In attempt to help, what do you plan to do five years from now? If you plan to serve as a primary care doctor (traditional/hospitalist/outpatient/SNF/LTAC) +/- a concentration such as an internist who primarily cares for diabetics, I believe that a nontraditional fellowship would be of minimal value.

 

[MD-iwish]

Thanks, I'd like to run a glycemic team in a hospital, just wanted to see if there are job opportunities out there, or ways to make myself more marketable.