Prisma Health Hospitalist Fellowship – Upstate - Curriculum

The year is divided into 13 blocks of four weeks. Fellows alternate between on-service blocks working as a hospitalist at the various campuses in the system and off-service blocks, which include electives and two required blocks of pulmonary/critical care. Fellows will also spend time in a hospitalist-run pre-operative clinic and home recovery care program, providing virtual visits to patients hospitalized at home. They will also experience the transitional care program.

The clinical curriculum will follow the Society of Hospital Medicine Core Competencies.

Fellows will work one-on-one with faculty preceptors while on the inpatient service. Participation in longitudinal development, quality, safety or guideline project is required. Based upon personal interest, fellows are encouraged to participate in patient safety reviews and become active members on one or two hospital or system committees.

Electives – two- or four-week blocks can be tailored to suit the fellow’s specific needs.

• Advanced heart failure
• Cardiology/stress testing
• Palliative care and hospice
• Interventional radiology (procedures)
• Anesthesiology
• Stroke/neurology
• Utilization management
• Transplant medicine

Education

• Prepare and deliver bi-monthly teaching conferences for residents and medical students
• Present one morbidity/mortality conference
• Weekly internal medicine grand rounds
• Multiple other lectures, didactics, conferences available but not required
• CME credit may be offered for certain lectures and conferences

Procedures

• Point of care ultrasound (POCUS)
• Lumbar puncture
• Thoracentesis
• Paracentesis
• Central line insertion
• Arterial line insertion
• Intubation
• Ventilator management