ChristianaCare’ s vision is creating health together, so every person can flourish. The six core institutional missions are ending health disparities, simplifying access to care, growing into new communities, healthy at home through preventative care, thriving caregivers, and strengthening core quality and safety. The rheumatology fellowship program’s vision is to advance rheumatology so that every learner, patient and community may flourish. The program aims to achieve this through providing comprehensive clinical and didactic education in rheumatology, foster excellence in patient care and procedural skills, cultivate leadership and personal growth in a positive, inclusive environment, promote interdisciplinary collaboration and community health literacy and advance rheumatology research and innovation.
The program has a comprehensive curriculum which involves didactics from faculty as well as fellows; the program has an extensive assessment and feedback system to ensure excellent fellow development; the program will offer rotations that will more than cover the wide scope of rheumatology in a diverse clinical setting; to help our underserved community underserved rotations will be incorporated. Fellows will spend at least 3 blocks in inpatient and 6 blocks in various community-based rotations each year. They will have at least 2 blocks of research electives annually and must publish at least 1 peer-reviewed article and present 1 research poster at the annual American College of Rheumatology (ACR) conference during their fellowship. Fellows will participate in formal research education provided by ChristianaCare’s research program. They will have the opportunity to lead one quality improvement project during their fellowship. Fellows will have access to the latest ultrasound machines and must perform at least 50 joint procedures and 25 ultrasound-guided procedures each year. They will help facilitate monthly community outreach sessions, including presenting rheumatology education. Fellows will contribute to online rheumatology education by publishing one educational video each month. With help from the ACR, fellows will collaborate with other rheumatology fellows across the nation to address health literacy in rheumatology. Fellows may be paired as mentors for one year with an internal medicine resident interested in pursuing a rheumatology fellowship.