The University Hospitalist Fellowship is a year-long fellowship for family medicine physicians seeking experience practicing medicine within hospitals, caring for patients from the time they are admitted to the time they are discharged. The fellowship offers one-on-one supervision from a Capstone Hospitalist Service attending physician for The University of Alabama College of Community Health Sciences, as well as the Hospitalist Fellowship director. The fellowship is housed at DCH Regional Medical Center in Tuscaloosa, a tertiary-care facility with 583 beds and one that offers a broad array of specialty units and advanced services, including cancer, cardiology, robotic and minimally invasive surgery, critical care pulmonology, gastroenterology, nephrology and the region’s most advanced trauma center. The University Hospitalist Fellowship is one of only a few nationwide that includes a rural focus and the first such program in the country, founded in 2006.
For more information, contact C. Brant Lehman, MD, director of the Hospitalist Fellowship university
Fellowship Features
- Comprehensive instruction
- Rigorous curriculum with 18-point literature review with Director
- Strong inpatient and critical care exposure
- Dedicated research time with data provided for QI project
- Financial support available for Continuing Medical Education activities and professional meetings
- Schedule involves scheduled hospitalist rounding occupying 75% of time, with 25% for scholarship
- In-program moonlighting opportunities provided during off time
- Work schedule is approximately seven on/seven off
- $80,000 salary with benefits package
Please review our Handbook and Policies. Candidates must be eligible for an unrestricted Alabama Medical License and DEA Certification.