General Endocrinology Fellowship Program - Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism (2024)

In our comprehensive two-year fellowship program, you will receive a broad range of hands-on clinical experience and individualized instruction from nationally known physicians and investigators in a collegial environment.

Fellowship Experience

Our program provides superior endocrine training in a collaborative environment.We have specialty clinics across our medical campus, which is anchored by our 1,200 bed inpatient center UAB Hospital—the eighth largest public hospital in the nation. The hospital is in close proximity to the Birmingham VA Medical Center, UAB Hospital Highlands campus, The Kirklin Clinic, and Children's Hospital of Alabama where fellows also train.

Patients come from all over the state to take advantage of our life-changing care, offering a diverse population and breadth of clinical learning opportunities. We approach medicine in a multi-disciplinary modality across a broad variety of endocrine-related conditions through mandatory and elective rotations. We accept applications through the Electronic Residency Application Service.

Clinical Rotations

In addition to our general endocrinology inpatient consult service, fellows will rotate through our multidisciplinary glycemic control service that helps hospitalized patients manage their diabetic condition.

On the outpatient side, ourPituitary Clinic is supported by experts in otolaryngology/skull-base surgery, radiation oncology, and ophthalmology. Our Osteoporosis Prevention and Treatment Clinic, brings together endocrinologists, rheumatologist, geriatricians, nutrition educators and physical therapists to care for adult patients with a range of metabolic bone diseases. In our Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsy Clinic, fellows work with pathologists to learn how to prepare specimen slides and assess for sample adequacy. Our Insulin Pump & CGM Clinic provides comprehensive diabetes care using mainly diabetes technology.

The Gender Health Clinic provides knowledge and experience in the medical management of gender dysphoria and related conditions. In the HIV Endocrine Clinic, fellows receive training in effectively collaborating with infectious disease specialists and other healthcare providers to provide comprehensive care for patients living with HIV.

UAB Weight Loss Medicine is a medical obesity clinic that includes endocrinologists, hepatologists, nurse practitioners, dietitians, and exercise trainers. Fellows can evaluate for underlying causes of obesity, initiate and adjust anti-obesity medications, learn nutrition therapy, and understand endoscopic and surgical treatments for the disease of obesity.

Teaching Conferences

Our training program is designed to provide our fellows with significant opportunities for teaching. Fellows are expected to help train/teach our residents and students rotating through the service while in charge of the consult service. Fellows discuss cases and formulate a management plan together with the residents and students prior to rounds with the supervising attending on a daily basis. Fellows are also required to present and discuss cases at our conferences, as well as deliver lectures to medical students on a basic or clinical endocrine topic.

Endocrinology Grand Rounds is a weekly opportunity for our faculty, fellows, and staff to hear from experts in a multitude of fields both within and outside of UAB. Topics vary from ongoing research projects to clinical vignettes with discussion of an endocrine disease process.

Best Case of the Week is a weekly interactive multi-disciplinary discussion and opportunity for fellows and faculty to present interesting cases or diagnostic dilemmas. Journal Club is an opportunity for fellows to learn the importance of scientific inquiry and analysis of the data.

The Core Curriculum Lecture Series covers the “bread and butter” of endocrinology through a series of case-based lectures early in the academic calendar year. Our Board Review Conference Series are interactive and involve fellows going through self-assessment programs facilitated by a faculty member.

Research Opportunities

Research is an essential part of our training program. Our fellows are required to find a mentor during the first few months of training and begin working on their projects during their first year. Research time increases significantly during the second year of training and fellows are expected to devote approximately 70 percent effort to their research projects. Research may be in clinical or basic science projects depending on fellow interests. By the end of the second year of training, our fellows are expected to prepare their research findings and submit them for publication. Presentation of their research findings at regional or national scientific meetings is strongly encouraged.

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