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Curriculum

Clinical

First Year

Outpatient Clinic: three half-day clinics: two in pediatrics and one half-day in medicine
Inpatient Service: five months (non-consecutive) with every fourth weekend on call. Night call is taken from home by beeper.

Second and Third Year

Outpatient Clinic: one to two half-day clinics per week
Inpatient Service: one month at the beginning of the second year
The majority of the second and third years are devoted to research.
Call is one out of every four to six weeks.

Research

All fellows undertake a research project. The final one to two years of the fellowship are focused on this, with only one to two half-days per week in clinic, one inpatient month at the start of the second year, and call only on the weekends.

Education

Allergy Grand Rounds occurs every other Friday morning at 7:30 a.m. Presentations are made by: 1) faculty and fellows from within the division; 2) faculty from the University of Pittsburgh; and 3) nationally known speakers from outside the university.
Case Conference occurs every other Friday morning at 7:30 a.m. The conference is attended by divisional faculty, fellows, and community allergists.
Immunology Didactic Conference occurs every other Thursday at noon. Fellows and faculty review basic immunology and immunodeficiency disease states.
Board Review Course occurs every other Thursday at noon. The course uses textbooks, review materials, DVD recorded lectures, and questions and answers to review material for the boards.
Journal Club is held every other Friday with the allergy and immunology faculty. On a quarterly basis, a journal club focusing on asthma is held with the pulmonologists.

Last Update
October 2, 2009

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