Harvard/Massachusetts General Hospital

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

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: less than 20%

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