Fellowships
Another strength of our academic-community department is the variety of fellowships available. Our residents have gone on to participate in geriatric, palliative care, and adolescent health fellowships in other departments at URMC, and are highly sought-after. Within family medicine, we offer a maternal child health fellowship and a faculty development fellowship, both of which are available to our graduates as well as those family physicians who have trained elsewhere. Fellows add much richness to the lives of our residents by providing teaching on the maternity care service as well as during outpatient core teaching.
Maternal and Child Health
The Maternal Child Health (MCH) fellowship program is designed to train leaders in Family Medicine who are interested in practicing in an underserved area or in an academic setting. This one-year fellowship is offered in collaboration with the Departments of Obstetrics and Pediatrics at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry.
Our fellowship provides advanced clinical training in maternity and newborn care. Fellows will receive training in C-section delivery, postpartum tubal ligations, OB ultrasound, newborn resuscitation and stabilization, vacuum assisted vaginal delivery and the care of complicated obstetric patients. The majority of the fellows’ time is spent on the labor deck at the Family Maternity Center at Highland Hospital with additional time in the ultrasound lab and the Special Care Nursery at Highland Hospital. Interested fellows may also receive training in colposcopy.
Fellows spend two half days per week in the Highland Family Medicine office seeing general family medicine patients and OB patients. Additionally, fellows conduct group prenatal visits along with midwives at the Young Mothers Program, a public high school for pregnant teens. Additional information can be obtained from our website.
Geriatrics
The Geriatric Medicine Fellowship Program at the University of Rochester is a one-year ACGME accredited training program which fulfills the requirements to sit for the subspecialty board examination and certification in geriatric medicine under the American Board of Family Medicine and the American Board of Internal Medicine. The fellowship is an integrated experience across multiple clinical sites including: Monroe Community Hospital, Acute Care for Elders Unit and the Geriatric Fracture Center at Highland Hospital, Independent Living for Seniors (PACE site), and the Rochester-Canandaigua Veterans Administration Medical Center.
The fellowship training includes longitudinal nursing home care, rehabilitation, nepediatrics consultation, primary care outpatient, home care, and comprehensive geriatric and psychiatric assessment. Fellows participate in the Geriatric Division’s educational activities including: journal club, grand rounds, and fellows' conference, as well as in teaching of housestaff and medical students. At the end of training, the geriatric medicine fellow is fully prepared to provide primary and consultative health care to geriatric patients in both inpatient and outpatient settings. Each fellow gains a broad body of knowledge that includes an integrative understanding of normal aging and disease models, psychosocial aspects of aging, the impact of acute and chronic physical illnesses, and the pathophysiology of geriatric syndromes. Additional information can also be obtained from our website.
Palliative Care
Our ACGME-accredited Palliative Care Fellowship includes multidisciplinary clinical training, course work, mentored teaching and research in a unique environment featuring innovative palliative care interventions, strong relationships with other disciplines within the University, and long-standing leadership and collaboration with community partners and institutions. The trainee will be responsible for care of inpatients and outpatients in varied settings, including a large academic teaching hospital with acute inpatient and ambulatory care services, hospice/home care, and nursing home comfort care. Our hospital environment includes the new Sussman Palliative Care Inpatient Unit, the only hospital-based, dedicated palliative care unit in the region.
An individualized learning plan provides varied opportunities within a curriculum comprising tutorials, seminars, teaching, and formal courses. The fellowship includes protected time to pursue a mentored research project, and provides one-on-one mentoring from nationally recognized leaders in the field. Preferred candidates will be Board Eligible or Board Certified by an ABMS-recognized board. Our program supports two fellows annually. Additional information can also be obtained from our website.
Adolescent Medicine
The University of Rochester Division of Adolescent Medicine offers two fellowships: An ACGME-accredited Medical Fellowship in Adolescent Medicine and a Maternal Child Health Bureau Leadership Education in Adolescent Health (LEAH), one of only seven in the country.
