University of Alabama at Birmingham

The UAB Departments of Nutrition Sciences and Medicine offer a two-year Fellowship in Clinical Nutrition for physicians who have completed medical training and are board-eligible or board-certified in Internal Medicine or Family Medicine.

Fellowship Director:
Taraneh Soleymani, MD
Department of Nutrition Sciences
1714 9th Avenue South, LRC 342
Birmingham, AL 35294-1270
Phone: 205-996-5243
Fax: 205-996-2072
E-mail:soltar@uab.edu

Program Website: www.uab.edu/nutrition

Specialty : Internal Medicine

Subspecialty: Nutrition

Primary Focus: Adults Nutrition/Adult Obesity

# of Positions: Variable, depending on funding

Duration: 24 months

Eligibility Requirements :
Internal Medicine, Family Practice
Currently recruiting: Yes

# Fellows being recruited : Variable, depending on funding

Positions obtained by fellows in last 10 years
Academic: 5
Private: 9
Industry: 0
Other (Specify):

Certification exams taken by fellows
ABPNS: 8
ASPEN: 0
ACN: 0
Other (specify): 2 (ABN pre-2001)

Background of fellows before entering program
Internal Medicine: 9
Family Medicine: 3
GI (adult/peds):
Endocrinology: 1
Nephrology:
Cardiology:
Critical Care Medicine:
Preventive Medicine:
Other (specify):

Faculty
# Directors: 1
Director Fellowship Trained: Yes
Director time (%): 100
Additional MD Faculty: 3
Time (%): 25%
Other Faculty (RDs): 1
Time (%): 25 %

Fellow Funding Source :
Extramural: 75%
Hospital: 0
Practice: 10%
Department: 15%
Other:

# of Educational Conferences per Month :
Clinical: 4
Clinical Nutrition: 4
Fellows expected: 4
Basic:
Basic Nutrition:
Fellows expected:
Journal: 1
Journal Nutrition: 1
Fellows expected: 1
Research: 4
Research Nutrition: 4
Fellows expected: 1
Lab: 2
Lab Nutrition: 2
Fellows expected: 0

Fellow Time Allocation (%)
Yr 1
Didactic: 5
Clinical: 30
Research: 60
Teaching: 5

Yr 2
Didactic: 5
Clinical: 30
Research: 60
Teaching: 5

Program Content Taught Through (%):
Self: 40
Supervised Clinical: 25
Lecture/Academic: 20
Lecture/Non-academic: 5
Clinical Conference: 0
Research Seminar: 5
Journal: 5
Other:

Courses
Biochemistry: 1
Clinical Nutrition: 1
Biostatistics: 1
Other: 2 (Nutrition and Cancer; Nutritional Epidemiology)

% Fellowship Devoted to Nutrition: 100%

% Fellowship Devoted to Nutrition Support: 30%