Columbia University Medical Center

Fellowship Director : David S. Seres, MD, PNS

Division of Preventive Medicine and Nutrition

Columbia University Medical Center P&S 9-501

630 West 168th Street

New York City, NY 10032

Phone: 212-305-2068

Fax: 212-305-3213

Email: dseres@columbia.edu

Specialty : Internal Medicine

Subspecialty : Nutrition

Primary Focus : Adult Nutrition Support

# of Positions : 1st Yr: 1 (possibly 2); 2nd Yr: 1

Duration : 12 – 24 months

Eligibility Requirements : U.S. citizen, permanent resident, or active J1 visa. Must be eligible for and obtain NY State Medical License or permit.

Currently recruiting : yes
Application deadline : November 31 for the following July

# Fellows being recruited : 1

Positions obtained by fellows in last 10 years
Academic : 3
Private : 2
Industry :
Other (Specify) :

Certification exams taken by fellows
ABPNS : 1
ASPEN : 4
ACN :
Other (specify) :

Background of fellows before entering program
Internal Medicine or Pediatrics : 6
Family Medicine :
GI (adult/peds) :
Endocrinology :
Nephrology :
Cardiology :
Critical Care Medicine :
Preventive Medicine :
Other (specify) :

Faculty

# Directors : 1

Director Fellowship Trained : yes (nutrition)

Director time (%) : 100

Additional Faculty : 2

Time (%) : 100

Other Faculty (#) : 2

Time (%) : 5

Fellow Funding Source (%) :

Extramural : Yes

Hospital : Yes

Practice :

Department :

Other :

Fellow Time Allocation (%)
Yr 1
Didactic : 5
Clinical : 65-80
Research : 10-20
Teaching : 10
Yr 2
Didactic : 0
Clinical : 0
Research : 100
Teaching : 10
Yr 3
Didactic :
Clinical :
Research :100
Teaching :

% Program Content Taught Through:
Self :
Supervised Clinical : 50
Lecture/Academic :
Lecture/Non-academic : 5
Clinical Conference : 5
Research Seminar : 20
Journal : 20
Other :

Courses
Biochemistry : Available through Columbia University
Clinical Nutrition : Available through Columbia University
Biostatistics : Available through Columbia University
Other :

% Fellowship Devoted to Nutrition : 15-25%

% Fellowship Devoted to Nutrition Support : 75-85%

# of Educational Conferences per Month :

Clinical : 1

Clinical Nutrition :1

Fellows expected :2

Basic :

Basic Nutrition :

Fellows expected :

Journal :4

Journal Nutrition :2

Fellows expected :2

Research :4

Research Nutrition :2
Fellows expected : 2

Lab :

Lab Nutrition : variable

Fellows expected :