Rotations

Outpatient clinics include a weekly scleroderma clinic and 2-3 additional general rheumatology clinics. Each trainee would be responsible for four to eight patients during the four-hour clinic session.

Rheumatology provides consultation service to RWJUH only. Inpatient consultations usually range from three to ten new consults per week. Each trainee will take call in 2 week blocks. The rheumatology trainee, under direct mentorship and supervision of the rheumatology faculty attending, is responsible for the total management of the inpatients.

The trainees spend up to 12 weeks on outside rotations as follows: University Orthopedics (hand, spine and trauma clinics), Pediatric Rheumatology, Bone Radiology, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.

Procedures and Technical Skills

Each trainee will be directly supervised for procedures, including arthrocentesis (with or without MSK Ultrasound guidance) and synovial fluid analysis, by each trainee until proficiency has been acquired and documented by the Program Director. Trainees are expected to keep their log of procedures performed during their fellowship.