Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
Fellowship Program

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Overview

The fellowship in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC is designed to develop academic hematologists/oncologists. The first year of the fellowship is dedicated primarily to clinical training and proficiency but with exposure to clinical and laboratory research. The last two years are devoted to learning the skills of basic laboratory research or, in selected cases, clinical investigation. In the third year, the fellow may serve as an “attending” on the clinical service for up to three months. Individual research project selection is based on the joint agreement of the fellow, the mentor and the program director. At the end of the three-year fellowship it is expected that the fellow will be equipped to pass all certifying exams required for sub-board certification and to pursue an academic career in pediatric hematology/oncology.

During the first year, the fellow will be clinically trained in pediatric hematology/oncology as well as clinical research design. The fellow will have rotations in Neuro-Oncology/Radiation Oncology, the Blood Bank/Coagulation Lab, Hematopathology and Cytogenetics, specialty clinics, inpatient hematology and oncology, and bone marrow transplantation. The fellows will have a half-day continuity clinic for the entire three years of fellowship. In addition, Children’s offers a hospital-wide clinical research course (project design, ethics, manuscript writing, and grantsmanship) for all pediatric subspecialty fellows.

The second and third years of the fellowship will be devoted primarily to research. During this time, the fellow is expected to actively participate in the design, conduct, evaluation and preparation for publication of a clinical or laboratory research project. Satisfactory conclusion of the research training should be accompanied by the publication of one or more research articles in peer-reviewed journals, by the applicant’s presentation of his/her results at national or international meetings and by a measure of scientific independence as determined by the ability to formulate and conduct one’s own future research plan.

All fellows will be expected to attend Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh’s multidisciplinary oncology tumor board, a separate neuro-oncology tumor board and a stem cell transplant meeting, each of which meets once weekly. In addition, the division offers weekly educational conferences, which may be a lecture, journal clubs or case-presentations. The Fellows Conference occurs monthly; fellows present a case-based review of a clinical topic or a basic science topic. There is a three-year Core Curriculum which covers all of the basic subjects addressed in the Hematology/Oncology Boards. Fellows participate in this lecture series.

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