Fellowship Director:
Nicolas Stettler, MD, MSCE
Nutrition Fellowship Training Program
Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
CHOP North 1559
34th and Civic Center Blvd.
Philadelphia, PA 19104-4399
Telephone: (215)590-1686
E-mail: nstettle@upenn.edu
Specialty: Pediatrics
Subspecialty: Nutrition
Primary Focus: Pediatrics (may combine with subspecialty)
# of Positions: 1st Yr: 2; 2nd Yr: 1-2; 3rd Yr: 1-2
Duration: 36 months
Eligibility Requirements: Pediatric board certified or eligible; U.S.
citizen
Recruiting for 2009?: Yes
# Fellows being recruited:
Positions obtained by fellows in last 10 years
Academic: 11
Private: 2
Industry: 2
Other (Specify): 1
Certification exams taken by fellows
ABPNS: 8
ASPEN:
ACN:
Other (specify): (former ABN)
Background of fellows before entering program
Internal Medicine or Pediatrics:
Family Medicine: 2
GI (adult/peds):
Endocrinology:
Nephrology:
Cardiology:
Critical Care Medicine:
Preventive Medicine:
Other (specify):
Faculty
# Directors: 1
Director Fellowship Trained?:
Yes
Director time (%): 100
Additional Faculty?: 3
Time (%): 50-100
Other Faculty (#): 3
(Neonatology, General Pediatrics, Gastroenterology)
Time (%):
10, 20, 50 (respectively)
Fellow Funding Source (%):
Extramural: 33 (1 of 3 yrs)
Hospital:
Practice:
Department:
Other: 66 (2 of 3 yrs) T-32
Training and other research
# of Educational Conferences
per Month:
Clinical: >4
Clinical Nutrition: min
Fellows expected:
Basic: many
Basic Nutrition: min
Fellows expected:
Journal: 2
Journal Nutrition: 2
Fellows expected:
Research: 2
Research Nutrition: 2
Fellows expected:
Lab:
Lab Nutrition: many
Fellows expected: PRN
Fellow Time Allocation (%)
Yr 1
Didactic: 20
Clinical: 80
Research:
Teaching: (part of 80)
Yr 2
Didactic: 0-50
Clinical: <20
Research: 30-80
Teaching:
Yr 3
Didactic: 0-50
Clinical: <20
Research: 30-80
Teaching:
% Program Content Taught Through:
Self: 10
Supervised Clinical: 30
Lecture/Academic: 0-10
Lecture/Non-academic:
Clinical Conference: 10
Research Seminar: 10
Journal: 10
Other: 30 (research)
Courses
Biochemistry:
Clinical Nutrition:
Biostatistics: 1
Other: Individualize PRN
% Fellowship Devoted to Nutrition: 80-100%
% Fellowship Devoted to Nutrition Support: 60-79%