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 The Section of General Internal Medicine is currently recruiting fellows into a research fellowship program in General Internal Medicine. The Section of General Internal Medicine has two established fellowship programs, the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program and the MacClean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics; the General Medicine research fellowship program is a new addition for 2005. General Internal Medicine Fellowship Program General Internal Medicine fellows will train alongside the multidisciplinary Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars in a two year fellowship program preparing them for careers in health services research or medical education. In the first year, fellows pursue a rigorous core curriculum in biostatistics, epidemiology and the fundamentals of health services research while working closely with faculty to develop an individualized program of study and initiate a project based on their own interests. The second year emphasis is on completing and presenting the project. Coursework can lead to a Master’s degree in Public Policy or Health Studies. For those fellows interested in the research in hospital medicine, the hospitalist fellowship track is an additional option. Major research opportunities span faculty interests including vulnerable populations, health disparities, quality of care & outcomes, cost-effectiveness, mental health, obesity and diabetes. Weekly conferences will showcase the developing research projects of fellows, and faculty mentors from the Department of Medicine and the social sciences help scholars focus and refine their research. Program Director: Deborah Burnet, MD, MA, Associate Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics Dr. Burnet conducts research on obesity and risk of type 2 diabetes in youth. Traditionally considered an “adult” disease, type 2 diabetes is becoming more prevalent among children and adolescents as rates of obesity steadily rise, especially among minorities. Dr. Burnet conducted focus groups with African-American children and families on Chicago’s South Side to assess community habits and preferences regarding nutrition and exercise behaviors and used these insights to develop and implement REACH-OUT, a community-based, family oriented program to decrease overweight and risk of type-2 diabetes among African-American youth. General Internal Medicine Research Co-Directors: Marshall Chin, MD, MPH and David Meltzer, MD, PhD (research interests listed below) Please click here for information and application materials. Questions about the fellowship program should be directed to: Deborah Burnet, MD, MA, Chief, Section of General Internal Medicine,
University of Chicago Hospitalist Scholars Training Program The Hospitalist Scholars Training Program is a 2-year program designed to train future hospitalists for a career in academic medicine. Scholars will be appointed as junior faculty in the Section of General Internal Medicine and will combine inpatient clinical work with course work and mentored training related to their academic project. The inpatient medicine service will provide the opportunity to work closely with other scholars as well as a nurse practitioner on the general medicine service at University of Chicago. However, scholars will have substantial protected time and dedicated support to pursue training and complete their mentored project. Coursework can lead to a Master’s degree in Public Policy or Health Studies. Opportunities for mentored research projects in the areas of outcomes research, quality improvement, patient safety, medical education, or cost-effectiveness analysis are available for Hospitalist Scholars. Scholars will also participate in several relevant conferences focusing on research, health care quality, and medical education and will be active members of the Academic Hospitalist Program, a nationally recognized hospital medicine research program. Scholars will have the opportunity to work with faculty from the Department of Medicine and the Social Sciences to complete their mentored project. Graduates of the Hospitalist Scholars Training Program will be well positioned to build a successful career in academic hospital medicine. Interested applicants should submit a CV and cover letter to: Chad Whelan, MD For more information contact Dr. Whelan at (773) 834-5931 or e-mail:
cwhelan@medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program Program Directors: John Lantos,MD, Associate Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics and Co-Director Dr. Lantos’ research on ethical and health policy issues in pediatrics is notable for extensive multidisciplinary collaborations with scholars in philosophy, law, public policy, economics, literature, history, and theology. As Chief of General Pediatrics, he is committed to developing community outreach programs to assess and respond to childhood morbidity in creative ways. As Co-Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, he works with clinical researchers in the early stages of their career to define research goals and implement innovative projects. David O. Meltzer,MD,Ph.D., Associate Professor of Medicine and Co-Director Dr. Meltzer's research explores problems in health economics and public policy. A major area of emphasis is the theoretical foundations of medical cost-effectiveness analysis, which he has explored primarily in the context of diabetes and prostate cancer. Another major area of interest examines the effects of managed care and medical specialization on the cost and quality of care, especially in teaching hospitals. He is currently principal investigator for a large multicenter study of the effects of hospitalists on the cost and quality of care that is funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Other work examines the role of mortality decline in the economic growth and the demographic transition of developing countries; the effects of prospective payment systems on the cost and quality of care, and the effects of FDA regulation on innovation in the pharmaceutical industry. Marshall Chin, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine and Associate Director Dr. Chin is a general internist who is an expert in improving health outcomes and the quality of medical care in vulnerable patients with chronic disease. Dr. Chin is a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Generalist Physician Faculty Scholar and Research Associate at the Center for Health Administration Studies and the Center on the Demography and Economics of Aging. Dr. Chin and his colleagues from a consortium of 70 community health centers in the Midwest are currently funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to improve the quality of diabetes care in health centers that serve the indigent. This multifactorial, community-based intervention includes rapid quality improvement, chronic disease management, provider training in behavioral change, and patient empowerment interventions. Dr. Chin also focuses on geriatrics issues, and he is funded by the National Institute on Aging to assess the treatment preferences of older patients with diabetes.. Diane Sperling Lauderdale, PhD Associate Director Diane Sperling Lauderdale is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Studies and the College, and Co-Director of the Center on the Demography and Economics of Aging. She is an epidemiologist and teaches courses on epidemiologic methods and epidemiology of aging. Her research interests include life course effects on chronic disease among the elderly, education effects on health, and the health of immigrant populations. Current projects include a demographic study of mortality among elderly Asian American populations, and an epidemiologic cohort study of the chronic disease effects of sleep duration, both funded by the National Institute on Aging. Her work has also explored determinants of childhood immunization rates. Current Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars: 2003-2005 2002-2004 Program Information: John D. Lantos, MD David O. Meltzer, MD, PhD
The MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics was established in 1984 under the direction of Mark Siegler, MD. It was one of the first programs in the nation devoted to clinical ethics. The Center for Clinical Medical Ethics fellowship program began in 1986 and has been immensely successful, training more than 150 clinicians. In the three years in which US News and World Report evaluated medical school ethics training programs (1991, 1992, and 1993), the MacLean Center was chosen each year as the number one ethics program in the country. The quality of the MacLean Center graduates is unparalleled among The University of Chicago fellowship programs. The MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at The University of Chicago invites applications for highly competitive positions in a unique year-long training program that begins annually in July. The goal of this program is to prepare clinicians to bring applied medical ethics to their institutions. For more information on fellowship application process for the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics Fellowship Program at The University of Chicago, please visit our website: http://ethics.bsd.uchicago.edu |
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