Curriculum

Two-Year Program, Lifelong Knowledge
The Endocrinology Fellowship is a two-year program that trains our fellows for successful careers. Fellows will learn through a variety of activities, including outpatient and inpatient clinical rotations, research opportunities, quality improvement projects, and didactic experiences
Fellowship activities
- Outpatient
- Continuity clinic
- Half-day every other week at Nebraska Medicine – Non-diabetes endocrine continuity
- Half-day every other week at the VA Nebraska-Western Iowa Health Care System – Diabetes continuity
- General endocrine clinics
- Subspecialty clinics
- Thyroid
- Benign thyroid disease
- Thyroid ultrasound and thyroid nodule biopsy
- Thyroid cancer
- Continuity clinic
- Inpatient
- Nebraska Medicine
- VA Nebraska-Western Iowa Health Care System
Research projects at UNMC and/or VA Nebraska-Western Iowa Health Care System
Quality Improvement (QI) projects at UNMC and/or VA Nebraska-Western Iowa Health Care System
- Fellow lecture series
- Clinical conferences
- Bedside teaching
- Procedural training
- Board review
- Tumor Board
- Three-week orientation and on-boarding for new fellows
- Journal club
- Research conference
- Internal Medicine Grand Rounds
Lecture Series
Through a dedicated lecture series and other structured didactics, fellows are exposed to the breadth of endocrinology during their fellowship training. View an example of a typical monthly conference calendar.
Presented approximately once a month, M&M conference allows fellows the opportunity to present challenging cases and discuss issues of diagnostic dilemmas and patient safety.