Medical Oncology-Hematology Fellowship Program
July 22, 2022Information
- ID
- 7979
- To Cite
- DCA Citation Guide
Transcript
- 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.