About the program

The Advocate Christ Medical Center Endocrine Fellowship Program started on July 1st 2022. It is an ACGME accredited program. The team consists of a total of 3 fellows on a two- year clinical endocrinology fellowship track, enthusiastic core faculty staff and teaching faculty, great helpful and knowledgeable support staff and multiple level educators including diabetes educators, nurses, Doctors of Pharmacy, clinical medical assistants and administrative staff.

Clinical rotations and didactics take place at Advocate Christ Medical Center for the inpatient rotations and Merrionette Park clinic mainly for the outpatient rotations as well as an outpatient endocrine clinic in Oak Lawn, all located within 4-5 miles from each other.

All these locations are within an easy commute from Downtown Chicago which is an attractive living place for many of our trainees, faculty and staff.

Rotations include Inpatient Adult Endocrinology consultations (average 3-4 months per year), Outpatient Adult Endocrinology care (average 3-4 months per year), Ultrasound Guided Fine Needle Aspiration (average one month per year), Pediatric Endocrinology (average 2 weeks per year), Maternal Fetal Medicine (average 2 weeks per year), Pathology (average 2 weeks per year) and Endocrine surgery (average 2 weeks per year).

Didactics include a variety of lectures:

• Endocrine Boot Camp
• Core Lectures relying on ABIM Blueprint for Endocrinology
• Case Presentations
• Tumor Board
• Journal Club
• Grand Rounds
• Board Review

The Program values the importance of personal professional growth as well as educational growth and offers specific lectures targeting and not limited to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Coding and Billing, Business of Medicine, Negotiation, Health cost, Disparities, Stigma and Social Determinants of Health

The Program recognizes that participation in national and regional conferences is crucial for personal growth and networking. The Program encourages the fellows to contribute to the medical literature with conducting clinical research, writing and submitting abstracts and manuscripts and presenting at conferences. The Program provides dedicated time off and reimbursements for that.

The Fellows will have the opportunity to participate in the Endocrine University educational program: Endocrine University part 1 for the first year fellows, and Endocrine University part 2 for the second year fellows.