The Pediatric Leukemia Fellowship Coaching Program is Texas Medical Board accredited for one 12 months of superior coaching in complete medical and analysis coaching for candidates concerned about a profession in educational pediatric hematology-oncology with a main deal with leukemia analysis, analysis and administration.
At the moment, pediatric leukemia is the most typical malignancy of childhood. Therapies are more and more advanced and particular for chosen illness subtypes and will solely be directed by people with experience. In consequence, outcomes are frequently enhancing. Those that survive require long-term comply with up as most cancers survivors. Sufferers who’ve progressive or relapsed illness are sometimes handled with bone marrow transplantation (BMT) and/or part I and II drug trials. Such multifaceted therapy of kids with leukemia requires a multidisciplinary staff of medical specialists. The necessity for distinctive subspecialists who can orchestrate such a extremely specialised multidisciplinary staff has produced the idea of a pediatric leukemia specialist.
Targets and Goal
- The general goal is to develop medical experience, management expertise and analysis experience within the area of leukemia and associated ailments.
- To offer superior coaching within the analysis, analysis, and administration of kids and adolescents with leukemia and associated ailments
- To enhance administrative and medical experience within the multidisciplinary area of pediatric leukemic ailments
- To enhance the trainees’ information of leukemia biology in such a manner that they may have a complete understanding of this subject
- To coach people within the present Part I, II and III therapies of pediatric leukemia such that they may have experience within the medical administration of sufferers with this illness
- To additional improve the instructing and management expertise of trainees on this space
Program Eligibility
Candidates must be American Board of Pediatrics eligible for pediatric hematology-oncology or ought to have acquired equal coaching as judged by this system administrators. Solely people who’ve efficiently accomplished an ACGME-accredited fellowship in pediatric hematology-oncology or equal coaching are eligible for this superior coaching alternative.
Overseas medical graduates and visa holders
At the moment, we’re solely capable of settle for J-1 coaching visas, however not these with H1B visas.
Program Length
One 12 months
Program Dates
July – June
Program Accreditation and Coaching Websites
Texas Medical Board: 503480507
Baylor School of Drugs, Texas Kids’s Hospital, College of Texas M.D. Anderson Most cancers Middle
Curriculum
By way of the next core rotations, every lasting for one to 2 months, the trainee will purchase multidisciplinary information and expertise vital for the administration of kids and adolescents with leukemia. Relying on the rotation, the trainee will spend 2-3 days weekly in these studying venues along with the time spent within the leukemia clinic service as famous above. The trainee will take part within the following:
- Clinic
- Protocol improvement
- Hematopathology
- Move Cytometry
- Cytogenetics
- Bone Marrow Transplant
- Part I and II / Pharmacology
- Lengthy Time period Survivor
Didactic
| Convention | Frequency | Function of the Fellow |
| Tumor Board & Drawback Case Convention | Weekly | Organizes and Conducts convention Moderates dialogue Participant in dialogue |
| Leukemia Workforce Convention | Weekly | Might current conferences Participant in Q&A |
| Analysis Seminar Convention | Weekly | Observer Participant in Q&A |
| Bone Marrow Transplant Assembly | Weekly throughout BMT month | Observer Participant in Q&A |
| Part I and II Assembly | Weekly throughout Part I and II month | Observer Participant in Q&A |
Contact Us
Deal with: 1102 Bates Ave., Ste. 1570 Houston, TX 77030
Program E-mail: txcheducation@texaschildrens.org
Leukemia Fellowship Medical Director
Karen Rabin, MD, PhD
Leukemia Fellowship Program Director
YoungNa Lee-Kim, MD
Apply
Fellows on this fellowship coaching program should full and submit an software together with three letters of reference, a curriculum vitae and a press release of curiosity.
