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.

The different block rotations are:

Outpatient (OP)
- Fellows will have two half-day continuity clinics per week in addition to rotating through each attending clinic.
Inpatient (IP)
- Inpatient rheumatology consultations are seen at Prisma Health-Richland hospital. This is a 641 regional, community, and teaching medical center.
Ambulatory (AMB)
- This block has flexible time for research and QI projects as well as time for board preparation.
EMG/NCS- 1 week
- Spend one week with one of our PNMR physicians, observing how EMG/NCS are perfromed as well as learning to distingush between neurogeneic, myopathic, and neuromuscular junction disorders.
Physical Therapy/Occupational Therapy (PT/OT)- 1 week
- Spend one week with Prisma Health therapists learning about the different modalities offered to patients with various musckuloskeletal and rheumatic conditions.
Pediatrics (PEDS)- 2 weeks
Orthopedics (ORTHO)- 2 weeks

Fellows will have two half-day continuity clinics per week in addition to rotating through each attending clinic.

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.

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