Hospital Medicine

Thank you for your interest in UCSF Fresno Hospital Medicine Fellowship Program. UCSF Fresno Community Regional Medical Center is dedicated to serving the diverse population of the Central Valley of California, and provides many specialists and medical innovation to this medically underserved area of California. We are excited to introduce our new Hospital Medicine Fellowship Program that will expand the career paths for the future leaders in Hospital Medicine offering training in research, teaching, and clinical experience with supervision and mentorship of very experienced academic hospital medicine faculty.

Why Hospital Medicine Fellowship?

Hospital medicine has been expanding for the last 20 years. As a result, most fellowship programs are continuing to grow into every aspect of medicine such as patient safety and hospitalization experiences; clinical outcomes and improvements; health care cost and resources utilization; electronic record implementation and informatics. Since healthcare is evolving quickly, demands on researchers, educators, and leaders are also increasing. While residency training prepares young physicians in expansion of medical knowledge and decision-making skills, pursuing a fellowship in Hospital Medicine trains physicians in research, education, and administration skills so that they may enter these roles earlier in their career paths.

Overview of Our Program

The HM program is based at the UCSF Fresno Community Regional Medical Center, a licensed 626-bed medical center, the 3^rd busiest hospital in the state, as well as a major teaching institution in the Central Valley of California boasting multiple residency and fellowship training programs. Some highlights of the clinical expertise include a level 1 Trauma Center, a new Trauma/Critical Care Building, a 70-bed emergency department with an annual census over 110,000 per year – the third busiest in California, and a state-of-the-art Burn Unit.

Our curriculum is multi-faceted and offers experiences that provide a variety of opportunities to reach career goals with close mentorship from the academic hospital medicine faculty in a one-year hospital medicine fellowship program. Research skills are developed through a partnership with UCSF San Francisco campus participating in a 7-week clinical research skills workshop which will occur early in the fellowship. For clinical and teaching skills, the fellow will work as a teaching attending with IM residents on ward service for 6 weeks to provide teaching and/or curriculum implementation to the residents while on service. In addition, the HM fellow will also co-manage neurosurgery patients with the state-of-the-art neuroscience team for 6 weeks. The neuro-hospitalist team manages an average of 10 patients with diverse diagnoses including brain tumors, stroke, trauma, and hemorrhage, etc. We provide ample flexibility in our program for the fellow to take electives in which he/she is interested. Finally, expectations for scholarly activity is fulfilled through multiple avenues such as a research project, performance improvement, Grand round presentation, intradepartmental journal club, and Morbidity & Mortality conferences to enrich the fellowship experience.

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Hospital Medicine Fellowship Program