Fellowship Program - Description

Program Leadership

Program Director
Imali Sirisena, MD
Associate Professor, Clinical Medicine

Program Rotations

• Endocrine Consult Service at Temple University Hospital – Main Campus
• Endocrine Consult Service at Temple University Hospital – Jeanes Campus
• Fellow Continuity Clinics
  
  • 1 Diabetes clinic per week
  • 1 General Endocrinology clinic per week
• Thyroid Ultrasound and FNA clinic
• Faculty run subspecialty clinics at main campus and satellites
• Within Temple rotations
  
  • Endocrine Surgery
  • Gestational Diabetes
  • Transgender Medicine
• Temple Health and affiliated rotations
  
  • Fox Chase Cancer Center (Thyroid cancer and other endocrine cancers)
  • Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (Pediatric Endocrinology) 
  • Reproductive Endocrinology site

Educational Programs

• Mondays 12- 1PM: Journal Club
• Tuesdays 12-1 PM: Clinical Case Conference
  
  • Including once a month clinical guidelines conference
• Wednesday 7-8AM monthly multidisciplinary pituitary conference
• Wednesday 12-1 PM monthly multidisciplinary thyroid/parathyroid conference
• Wednesday 12-1 PM: Medicine Grand Rounds on other weeks
• Thursdays 7-8AM: Fellows Core Curriculum Lecture Series
• Thursdays 12-1 PM: Endocrine Grand Rounds

Research Experience

• Fellows are assigned a research mentor their first year - fellows work with various faculty and their mentor on research projects as well as interesting cases
• Research time is given in blocks if a fellow has interest in a major research project
• Fellows are expected to present research results and/or interesting cases at national conferences
• Fellows are expected to actively participate in quality improvement and/or performance improvement projects.

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