Fellowship (medicine)

Fellowship (medicine)

A fellowship is the period of medical training that a physician may undertake after completing a specialty training program. During this time (usually more than one year), the physician is known as a fellow. Fellows are capable of acting as attending physician or consultant physician in the generalist field in which they were trained, such as internal medicine or pediatrics. After completing a fellowship in the relevant sub-specialty, the physician is permitted to practice without direct supervision by other physicians in that sub-specialty, such as cardiology or oncology.

Recognized Internal Medicine Fellowships

Most medical sub-specialties have formalized fellowship programs that are accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).


*Cardiology
*Critical Care Medicine
*Endocrinology
*Gastroenterology
*Geriatrics
*Hematology
*Immunology
*Infectious disease
*Nephrology
*Oncology
*Palliative Care
*Pulmonology
*Rheumatology
*Sleep Medicine
*Transplant Hepatology
*Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychiatry

ee also

*Medical intern
*Medical specialty
*Physician specialty codes


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