Fellowship Director:
Steve Grinspoon, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Program in Nutritional Metabolism
55 Fruit Street, LON 207
Boston, MA 01214
Phone: 617-724-9109
Fax: 617-724-8998
E-mail:
sgrinspoon@partners.org
Specialty: Internal Medicine
Subspecialty: Endocrinology
Primary Focus: Adults and Pediatrics (Nutrition, Gastroenterology,
Endocrinology)
# of Positions: 1st Yr: 3; 2nd Yr: 3; 3rd Yr: 3
Duration: 24 months
Eligibility Requirements: PhD for Basic Sciences; MD must finish
residency
Recruiting for 2009?: yes
# Fellows being recruited: 2 (new program started 07/04)
Positions obtained by fellows in last 10 years
Academic:Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Assistant in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Research Fellow MGH, Individual NRSA recipient
Private:
Industry:
Other (Specify):Postdoctoral Research Molecular Biologist, US Dept of Agriculture
Certification exams taken by fellows
ABPNS:
ASPEN:
ACN:
Other (specify):
Background of fellows before entering program
Internal Medicine or Pediatrics:
Family Medicine:
GI (adult/peds):X
Endocrinology:X
Nephrology:
Cardiology:
Critical Care Medicine:
Preventive Medicine:
Other (specify):Infectious Diseases X, Pediatrics X
Faculty
# Directors: 1
Director Fellowship Trained?:
yes
Director time (%): 15
Additional Faculty?: 9
Time (%): 50-75
Other Faculty (#): 19
Time (%): 5
Fellow Funding Source (%):
Extramural:100% (NIH training
grant)
Hospital:
Practice:
Department:
Other:
# of Educational Conferences
per Month:
Clinical: 5
Clinical Nutrition:
Fellows expected:
Basic: 5
Basic Nutrition: 5
Fellows expected: 10
Journal: 2
Journal Nutrition: 2
Fellows expected: 10
Research: 2
Research Nutrition: 2
Fellows expected: 10
Lab: 2
Lab Nutrition: 2
Fellows expected: 10
Fellow Time Allocation (%)
Yr 1
Didactic: 5
Clinical: 5
Research: 90
Teaching:
Yr 2
Didactic: 5
Clinical: 5
Research: 90
Teaching:
Yr 3
Didactic: 5
Clinical: 5
Research: 90
Teaching:
% Program Content Taught Through:
Self: 10
Supervised Clinical:
Lecture/Academic: 10
Lecture/Non-academic: 10
Clinical Conference: 10
Research Seminar: 20
Journal: 10
Other: 30
Courses
Biochemistry: 1
Clinical Nutrition: 1
Biostatistics: 1
Other: 1
% Fellowship Devoted to Nutrition: 60-79%
% Fellowship Devoted to Nutrition Support: <20%