Medical Oncology-Hematology Fellowship Program

July 22, 2022

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00:06The research here was where
00:07I wanted to be. There
00:08were great mentors here
00:10for me. Who's someone on the
00:12physician scientist track?
00:13The opportunities are really endless.
00:15Not only am I able to take advantage
00:17of all these learning opportunities,
00:18but also that I have the
00:20support to pursue what what
00:23I really want to do.
00:27I think there's many reasons
00:28people would want to come to Yale.
00:29There's many things that draw people here
00:31and that make our fellows very hay here,
00:34you know, we're an academic program
00:37that really emphasizes individual
00:39career development and mentorship.
00:41We offer outstanding clinical training,
00:44a ton of of research opportunities
00:46all across the the university.
00:49But most importantly,
00:49you know we're a program that really,
00:51really takes care of its fellows
00:53at the individual level in in
00:54whatever way that means that.
00:55Each person.
00:57This is the first time
00:58for a lot of people that.
01:01That you're really thinking about
01:03your future forever in your career.
01:06You know, through all the steps
01:07that we go through in training,
01:09and there are a lot of them.
01:09Obviously, there's you're
01:11thinking about the next step,
01:13but this is different after this.
01:16This is the last step before you're
01:18doing what you're going to do,
01:19potentially for the rest of your career,
01:21so it's vital that you have all the
01:23resources you need because you may not
01:24know exactly what you're going to do,
01:26or if you do know what you're going to do,
01:27you have to make sure that those
01:29resources are there and and that's should
01:31be whatever you're thinking about.
01:33An applicant and I think Yale has
01:35just a ton to offer for almost
01:37anything that anyone could want.
01:40I came into fellowship not knowing
01:41exactly what I wanted to do,
01:43and I'd say absolutely every
01:45opportunity was open to me and
01:48everybody was invested and interested
01:51in helping me find my path,
01:54and that was easy to do because
01:57the dedication to teaching
01:58is really really strong
02:00here at Yale. Our program is
02:03really focused on trying to
02:04understand who our fellows are,
02:06what our interests are, and how.
02:10We can help to support our fellows
02:12in making those things happen.
02:13Diversity, equity and inclusion
02:15are core principles of our
02:17fellowship and at our institution.
02:19In today's era of complex medicine,
02:21it's more important than ever that we
02:24have diversity amongst physicians,
02:26faculty and staff that represent
02:28the diversity of our patients.
02:31This past year we became one of
02:32the first and only fellowship
02:34programs in the country to develop a
02:36dedicated curriculum on diversity,
02:38equity and inclusion,
02:39which was created with significant
02:41input by our Chief Fellows.
02:44Along with the vice chair of Diversity,
02:46Equity and inclusion at the
02:47Yale Cancer Center.
02:49We don't have a lot of 30 person labs.
02:52We don't have a lot of
02:54gigantic clinical groups.
02:55We have mid sized groups and the because
02:58of that they're more collaborative.
03:00You know, when you're
03:01not in a gigantic group,
03:03you talk to the people who are next
03:05to you and people's doors are open
03:07and it's very easy to find other
03:10people to talk to so that I think
03:12is really different here and that's
03:14what I think distinguishes it.
03:16And maybe it's also part of the fact
03:18that we are from in a smaller town.
03:20And so, and I think that's
03:22really a huge advantage.
03:24Our curriculum is is outstanding.
03:26There's a lot of different facets to it,
03:28so you know, certainly there's there's
03:30a whole portion of the curriculum and
03:33and the bulk of of of clinical training
03:35I would say comes from, you know,
03:38what our fellows are exposed to clinically.
03:41So this is when they're on the
03:42different services in the hospital.
03:44This is when they're in their their clinic,
03:46learning from from you know,
03:47seasoned faculty who are
03:49world experts in their field.
03:50But then, on top of that we have a very
03:52structured curriculum that happens,
03:53you know, quote UN quote in the classroom,
03:55and this centers around lots and lots of
03:58different conferences that are basically
04:00spread over the course of the entire week.
04:02So Ash is the American Society of Hematology.
04:05That's the major professional
04:07organization for hematologists worldwide,
04:09and so Ash created an entirely new
04:11fellowship program called the Hematology
04:13Focused Fellowship Training program, HFTP.
04:16It's a $19 million pilot program that
04:20they decided to award to 9 institutions,
04:23and so we were one of the nine
04:25programs that now has awarded this.
04:26Ashley Mitology focused fellowship
04:28training program,
04:29which puts us in a very unique
04:31league among other institutions.
04:32And it's sort of a recognition of our
04:34efforts in classical hematology and the
04:36types of resources and the mentorship
04:38that we can provide to train the next
04:39generation of classical hematologists.
04:41There's just a diversity
04:43in the training itself,
04:45so we are trained at Yale,
04:47New Haven Hospital,
04:48which is a tertiary care center.
04:50And then we also go to the VA hospital.
04:53So when I'm at the main hospital,
04:56I see all of these people who have
04:59really complex diseases with the
05:01experts and really, those fields.
05:02And at the VA hospital I get to see
05:05really bread and butter oncology and
05:07I get to see a mix of inpatient and
05:10outpatient and benign hematology,
05:12malignant solid oncology.
05:13So the education here is
05:15just really phenomenal,
05:17and I think other facets of the program,
05:20for example,
05:22protecting our Fridays for
05:24education and administrative time,
05:26really allows us to make the most
05:28of not only our clinical training,
05:30but our other interests as well.
05:32I'm a proud graduate of this.
05:34Fellowship program.
05:35Over years we made it an important
05:40aspect to our recruitment policy
05:42that we hire our own fellows
05:45as faculty members after they
05:47graduate and this is what makes a
05:49fellowship at Yale different about
05:52a third of my section section
05:54of hematology faculty was hired
05:57out of our fellowship.
05:59The whole
05:59point of our program is for you to succeed,
06:01and the only way that's going
06:02to happen is if you're happy.
06:04And if you're doing something
06:05that you love so.
06:06That includes things like Wellness
06:08and it includes things like being
06:09supportive and making sure that you're
06:12actually enjoying what you're doing,
06:13because that's the way to have a long,
06:15satisfying career where you produce a lot.
06:17I have been blown away by how
06:19support of the leadership is of us
06:22and how approachable everyone is.
06:24There's no one that I can't go
06:26to with any kind of question or
06:29for guidance issue, big or small.
06:31One of the best parts of our fellowship
06:34program is really the people.
06:36You know, I I, I really can't
06:38say enough about my Co fellows.
06:40There's some of the smartest
06:42and most fun people that you
06:44just want to hang out with.
06:46I just feel so incredibly grateful
06:48to be here every single day.
06:51I genuinely feel happy here in my training,
06:54which I've never expected to
06:56be able to say as a first year
06:58fellow and I just feel really
07:00fortunate to be able to train here.