Curriculum
Fellows will have an ongoing outpatient continuity clinical experience including a personal group of patients they will follow throughout the duration of training.
First year
The fellows will spend their first year in clinical rotations that include exposure to:
- Inpatient and outpatient oncology
- Hematology consultation -inpatient and outpatient settings
- Hematopathology
- Anatomic pathology
- Cytogenetics/FISH
- Genetics/Research
- CAR-T
- Elective
Fellows will spend time at the beginning of their fellowship formulating their research interest with an attending/mentor. Most research projects are translational.
Second year
Second year fellows will spend one month at Karmanos Cancer Institute for an inpatient bone marrow transplant service, and one month at Henry Ford Hospital for a Hematology rotation. The remaining portion of the second year will have:
- Inpatient and outpatient hematology oncology service
- Radiation oncology
- Gynecologic oncology
- Blood bank
- Coagulation
- Chemistry
- CAR-T
- Research
- Elective
Third year
Third year fellows will spend a significant amount of time dedicated to clinical research. Rotations included in the third year of fellowship:
- Karmanos Cancer Institute-Outpatient bone marrow transplant
- Karmanos Cancer Institute-Outpatient white blood cell
- Palliative care
- Inpatient and outpatient hematology oncology service
- Electives to round out any exposures that the fellow has specific interest in but not limited to
- Outpatient GI/liver
- Outpatient breast
- Pediatric hematology
- Neuro-oncology
Conferences and lectures
The educational activities within the division include weekly tumor conferences in the management of a wide variety of cancers that include:
- Head and neck cancers
- GU cancer, liver tumors
- Thoracic and breast malignancies
- Hematolymphoid
- Neurology
- Sarcoma
- Breast
- Colorectal
- Molecular
Fellows have a rigorous lecture and presentation schedule that includes:
- Weekly didactics
- Journal club
- Research/QI
- M & M
- Heme Case Review
- Molecular Tumor Board
Fellowship program is built on six core competencies
- Practice-based learning and improvement
- Patient care
- Professionalism
- Interpersonal and communication skills
- Medical knowledge
- Systems-based practice
The overall objective is to provide all the resources for fellows to master the art and science of caring for patients with cancer and blood disorders. We advance the knowledge of clinical and basic research, and help develop skills for lifelong learning and continued growth in hematology-oncology following graduation from the program. Also, by participation in clinical trials, fellows will learn the standard of care for patients locally and nationally.
Through translational research they will learn the application of new basic laboratory knowledge through patient care. The hematology-oncology fellowship program seeks to train physicians in a very compassionate and caring setting. The fellows will learn the art of communication with patients and other healthcare professionals. They will also obtain the necessary skills to control pain and care for patients at the end of their life.
The program is designed to allow the fellow maximum time for education and professional growth.