Clinical Chemistry Fellowship

The Clinical Chemistry Fellowship (CCF) Program at UT Southwestern Medical Center provides trainees with the skills required for the practice of clinical chemistry in an academic or community hospital or industrial setting and to successfully complete the board examination in clinical chemistry administered by the American Board of Clinical Chemistry (ABCC).  Learn more:

• Overview
• Requirements
• Educational Goals
• Rotations
• Examination
• Stipends
• Faculty

Overview

Mechanisms for achieving the goals of the program include:

• Mentoring by members of the clinical chemistry faculty
• Participation in a research project under the direction of the Clinical Chemistry Research and Faculty Advisor
• Coordinating with a faculty member and overseeing pathology residents providing direct assistance to Interventional Radiologists in the surgical suite on patients undergoing bilateral inferior petrosal sinus sampling (IPSS), adrenal vein sampling (AVS), or selective sampling for parathormone (PTH)
• Participation in, at the discretion of the trainee’s Research and Faculty Advisor on an as needed basis, other special projects and tasks, not defined herein, with direct teaching value and benefit to the trainee

In addition, attendance by the CCF is required at a variety of symposia with extensive learning benefit and value, including:

• Weekly Internal Medicine Grand Rounds, a forum for members of the Department of Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern to present a mini-review of a clinical medicine topic related to their area of expertise and specialization
• Monthly Clinical Chemistry Grand Rounds Lecture Series, a forum for presentations by well-known outside speakers on topics directly related to clinical chemistry; annual Laboratory Management Course for Pathology Residents
• Annual Pathology Course
• The annual meeting of the American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC)
• Local meetings of other professional and scientific organizations [e.g., Texas Section, AACC, Clinical Ligand Assay Society (CLAS)]

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Requirements

Applicants must have earned a Doctor of Medicine or Doctor of Philosophy degree (or an equivalent doctoral degree) in the basic sciences; chemistry, biology, or physics from an accredited university or college. Applicants should have successfully completed enough chemistry courses to apply to the American Board of Clinical Chemistry, i.e., a minimum of 30 semester hours (or equivalent) in undergraduate and/or graduate level chemistry or biochemistry courses taken at institutions acceptable to the Board.

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Examination

Prior to completion of the Fellowship program, the Fellow will be required to attain a satisfactory score on a Comprehensive Examination.

Stipends

Salary commensurate with residency scale PGY1 and PGY2.

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Faculty

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