Medical Oncology Fellowship
Department of Medicine Fellows are prepared for careers in academia. The flagship three-year Medical Oncology program is aimed at providing the optimal training experience to qualify fellows for the subspecialty exam in medical oncology given by the American Board of Internal Medicine and to provide training for an academic career in Medical Oncology. The first of three years is devoted to clinical subspecialty training. The latter two years are largely dedicated to clinical investigation or laboratory research under faculty guidance. Other tracks are also available. Manuscripts are prepared and presentations before national organizations are encouraged. The potential to serve as a junior attending during the third year exists. Each fellow is assigned to a faculty advisor early in his/her training. There is a strong commitment to education. Multimodality (Medicine, Radiation Medicine, Surgery, Pathology, and Diagnostic Radiology) tumor conferences on a broad range of malignancies are held regularly.
The Department holds a didactic conference throughout the year devoted to fellow education. Quarterly Internal Medicine and weekly Medical Oncology Grand Rounds feature national and international authorities. An Institute-wide weekly lecture series for all of the Institute’s fellows is held, which includes, in part, the topics of cancer epidemiology, clinical trial design, biostatistics, clinical pharmacology, molecular biology, flow cytometry, cytogenetics, and cancer cell biology. The Program holds a weekly clinical conference and journal club. The Institute-wide Medical Oncology/Surgical Oncology/Radiation Medicine Fellow Debates allow medical oncology fellows to review the literature, collate information, and prepare formal talks; the latter is under the guidance of an assigned faculty member. Basic science departments and each of the multidisciplinary clinical teams at Roswell Park feature a wide range of conferences and special interest topics open to all Institute personnel.
Hematology/Oncology Fellow Program
The Department of Medicine at Roswell Park and the Buffalo Veteran’s Administration Hospital (BVAH), in concert with the State University of New York at Buffalo, offer a total of twelve fellowships in medical oncology or hematology/oncology. Medical Oncology fellowships are two or three years in length, and hematology/oncology fellowships are three or four years in length. There are 46 senior staff physicians between RPCI and BVAH who are available for teaching and consultation. The Program and 43 of its faculty are based at RPCI.
Research Program
With a team of approximately 120 senior scientists serving seven basic research and cancer prevention departments, Roswell Park is recognized as one of the strongest cancer research programs in the country. The Medicine staff encourages fellows to seek out projects within the Departments of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Immunology, Cancer Genetics, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Cellular Stress Biology, Cancer Biology, and Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences under its concurrent guidance. Therefore, in addition to the considerable research opportunities available to the fellows within the Division of Medicine, the rich source of collaborative opportunities enabled by the basic cancer research departments allows a virtually limitless number of “special programs” in which fellows can participate
