Fellowship Opportunity
The Northridge Family Medicine Residency Program offers a one-year fellowship in Advanced Hospital Medicine with the central goal of preparing family physicians for careers as clinician-educators or physicians with high inpatient volume practices. They will develop expertise in managing acutely ill, complex medical patients.
Our tertiary community hospital boasts a wealth of clinical opportunities including a trauma center, STEMI response team, a stroke center and a large hospital service with excellent clinical and teaching opportunities. We have a stable group of faculty and an excellent group of 21 family medicine residents.
Fellowship Curriculum
The Advanced Hospital Medicine fellow will become competent in clinical care of adult patients in a hospital setting by providing care for their own panel of patients and working closely with Internal Medicine and Family Physician faculty.
Patients will be followed in the adult intensive care units, telemetry and medical /surgical units. Fellows will follow patients with adult internal medicine conditions, surgical conditions, and gynecological conditions. There are optional opportunities for experience in a Pediatrics Intensive Care unit if interested.
The fellow will have weekly continuity office hours to provide follow up care and learn about the transition from inpatient to ambulatory patient. The fellow will care for patients in our busy family medicine center and skilled nursing facilities. The fellow will work with case managers, hospital nurses and staff and faculty in areas of clinical pathways, quality management, risk assessment and clinical research.
Teaching Opportunities
The fellow will have opportunities to both manage their own patients as well as learn teaching skills with our Family Medicine Residents. Fellows will attend morning report teaching rounds and present a weekly case. They will attend teaching rounds, sub-specialty rounds, case management rounds, as well as other didactic teaching conferences. These activities are intended to prepare the hospital medicine fellow to be an excellent inpatient teaching physician.
Fellows will participate in the yearly UCLA multi-campus research forum and develop a clinical project in an area of interest in hospital medicine. Additional activities include attending an annual residency retreat, participation in journal club discussions and as a presenter for didactic learning lectures and grand rounds.
Application and Eligibility
Fellowship applicants should have completed a residency in Family Medicine and be board-eligible with certification pending. Applicants should have a demonstrated interest in teaching and clinical care and be committed to a career in family medicine and/or education. They should have a DEA license and an unrestricted California Medical License by the time of the start of the program.
To apply for fellowship, please send a copy of your current curriculum vitae, a personal statement about your career goals, and three letters of recommendation (Residency Program Director, attending faculty, and a third individual of your choosing). Selected candidates will be interviewed after review of the applicant packet. The Fellowship will typically begin in July each year with a salary of $56,650 and benefits, including options for medical, dental and vision coverage, vacation and conference allowance.
Please send applications to:
Mark P. Amico, MD
Director, Hospitalist Fellowship Associate Director Northridge Family Medicine Residency Program
18406 Roscoe Blvd.
Northridge, CA 91325
Phone (818) 993-4054 or
Email (with attached CV) to nancy.parker@chw.edu, Nancy Parker, Residency and Fellowship Coordinator
