Rheumatology Fellowship Columbia - Curriculum

Rheumatology educational experiences

Our two-year program offers two ACGME-accredited training positions each year for board-eligible internal medicine physicians.

Rotations

• Orthopedics – 2 weeks 
• Pediatrics – 2 weeks
• Physical Therapy – 1 week
• Occupational Therapy – 1 week
• Electromyography and Nerve Conduction Study – 1 week

Three different four-week blocks: outpatient, inpatient, ambulatory.

Two outpatient continuity clinics per week:

• Outpatient Rotation (3 additional clinics with attending), 
• Ambulatory block has built in time for research projects (poster presentations, article preparation, QI projects and board review.

Didactics

Weekly two-hour rheumatology grand rounds, weekly radiology conference, weekly Thursday afternoon musculoskeletal ultrasound clinic.

• Grand rounds
• Journal club
• Case presentation
• Clinical question and review of the literature for evidence-based decision making
• Pathology once a month
• Guest speaker
• Research update – quarterly
• QI project update – quarterly
• M&M quarterly
• MSK regional, metabolic bone disease, ultrasound
• Faculty lecture