Fellowship Director:

Caroline M. Apovian, M.D.

Section of Endocrinology, Diabetes, & Nutrition

Department of Medicine

Boston University Medical Center

88 East Newton Street

Boston, MA 02118

Phone: 617-638-8556

Fax: 617-638-8599

Email: Caroline.Apovian@bmc.org 

Specialty: Internal Medicine

Subspecialty: Nutrition

Primary Focus: Endocrinology/Nutrition

# of Positions:

1st Yr: 1

2nd Yr: 1

3rd Yr: 1

Duration: 24-36 months

Eligibility Requirements: Internal Medicine; U.S. citizen or permanent resident

 

Currently recruiting: Yes, for 2009

# Fellows being recruited: 1 per year

Positions obtained by fellows in last 10 years
Academic: 2
Private:
Industry:
Other (Specify):

Certification exams taken by fellows
ABPNS: 1
ASPEN:
ACN:
Other (specify):

Background of fellows before entering program
Internal Medicine or Pediatrics:
Family Medicine:
GI (adult/peds):
Endocrinology:
Nephrology:
Cardiology:
Critical Care Medicine:
Preventive Medicine:
Other (specify):

Faculty 

# Directors: 1

Director Fellowship Trained: yes

Director time (%): 100

Additional Faculty: 2

Time (%) : 100

Other Faculty (#): 15

Time (%): (endocrinology and research)

Fellow Funding Source (%):

Extramural: Nutrition grants for 3rd year

Hospital: 100

Practice:

Department:

Other:

# of Educational Conferences per Month:

Clinical: 4

Clinical Nutrition: 1

Fellows expected: 5

Basic: 2

Basic Nutrition:

Fellows expected:

Journal: 4

Journal Nutrition: 1

Fellows expected: 5

Research: 2

Research Nutrition:
Fellows expected:

Lab: 1

Lab Nutrition:

Fellows expected:

Fellow Time Allocation (%)
Yr 1
Didactic:
Clinical: 100
Research:
Teaching:
Yr 2
Didactic:
Clinical: 75
Research: 25
Teaching:
Yr 3
Didactic:
Clinical: 25
Research: 75
Teaching: (within clinical)

% Program Content Taught Through:
Self: 10
Supervised Clinical: 60
Lecture/Academic: 0
Lecture/Non-academic: 10
Clinical Conference: 10
Research Seminar: 5
Journal: 5
Other:

Courses
Biochemistry: 1
Clinical Nutrition: 1
Biostatistics: 1
Other:

% Fellowship Devoted to Nutrition: 40-59%

% Fellowship Devoted to Nutrition Support: 20-39%