Adolescent Health and Medicine Fellowship Quick Info

Accredited/Nonaccredited: Accredited by ACGME

# of fellow slots each year:  Up to 3 per year

Typical academic year start date: September 1st

1. Maternal and Child Health Bureau (Health Services and Research Administration, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services), and
2. Center for Disease Control and Prevention training grant (Healthy Youth Development Prevention Research Center).

Strengths of program: Our fellowship is a federally-funded interdisciplinary Leadership Education in Adolescent Health training program, which we’ve had in place for over 25 years.  Our fellowship not only provides clinical training in Adolescent medicine, but is also heavily focused on the development of leadership skills, including teaching, research, public speaking, grant writing, and preparing data for the legislature regarding adolescent health issues. Our fellows are closely mentored in identifying a research question, conducting data analysis, writing up and submitting their research for presentation at professional meetings and publication in peer-reviewed journals (one manuscript per year).  We expect our fellows to choose careers in either academia, public health or in other sectors that allow them to impact on adolescent health well beyond the individual clinician-patient encounter. All our medical fellows pursue a Masters in Public Health as part of their fellowship (if they have not already obtained this degree as part of their training).

Clinical vs. Research – One full year (ten half-days a week for 48 weeks) of outpatient clinical duties, and two full years of Masters in Public Health coursework (including research), completed during a three-year fellowship.  For example, two half-days of clinic the first year, three half-days of clinic the second year, and five half-days of clinic the third year, with the remainder of the time devoted to MPH coursework and research.
Call responsibilities - none

Types of research fellows could pursue (e.g. lab, clinical, community-based, etc.):
Clinical and epidemiological (public health, clinical, behavioral, etc..).

Dual Degree:
Does your program fund Master’s Program? If so, which one(s)? Adolescent Medicine fellows are required by our funding agency (Maternal and Child Health Bureau) to complete a Master’s in Public Health (MPH) degree during fellowship training. Application to the MPH degree program is a separate application process from the fellowship application.  Note: all of our fellows who apply to the MPH program in the School of Public Health have been accepted to the program, to date.

Career Path:
Where do your fellows go after fellowship? Fellowship graduates who have continued in academic settings enjoy careers combining clinical care, research, teaching and administration. Examples: Peter Scal, Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota (Dept of Pediatrics); Julia Joseph-DiCaprio, Chief of Pediatrics, Hennepin County Medical Center; David Rosen, Director of Adolescent Medicine, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor; Naomi Duke, Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital; Sarah Lerand, Assistant Professor, Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Fellowship graduates working in primary care clinical settings are often involved in administration, research and/or teaching as well (Eric Meininger, CUHCC; Amy Kelly, College of St Catherine’s Health and Wellness Center; Allison Warford, Boynton Health Service; Ellen Rock, Eating Disorders Institute at Methodist Hospital).

Do you know of fellowship programs in your specialty that address Med-Peds graduates? Our fellowship program accepts Med-Peds graduates.  We encourage them to pursue a full three-year fellowship in order to successfully complete the research/ scholarship requirements.

Additional Information: If you are interested in such a fellowship, please do look at our website, and if you have any questions after reviewing this site, please do not hesitate to contact us further.  Contact Deb Seyfer, our administrative assistant, at dappe001@umn.edu.