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)
- Inpatient (IP)
- Ambulatory (AMB)
- EMG/NCG- 1 week
- Physical Therapy/Occupational Therapy (PT/OT)- 1 week
- Pediatrics (PEDS)- 2 weeks
- Orthopedics (ORTHO)- 2 weeks
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