Fellowship | Emory School of Medicine

The Emory University Allergy/Immunology Fellowship Program is an ACGME accredited two-year fellowship offered in collaboration with Emory University School of Medicine and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. The mission of the fellowship is to develop physicians that are clinically competent in the diagnosis and management of children and adults with allergic and immunologic diseases and related conditions. Our goal is for our trainees to have acquired the knowledge and skills to prepare them for excellence in any future academic or community practice setting and possess habits of life-long learning to build upon their knowledge, skills, and professionalism.

Application Process

To apply for a Fellowship, please complete an application through the Electronic Residency Application System (ERAS). In order to be considered, applicants must have completed an accredited internal medicine, pediatric, or combined internal medicine/pediatric residency from U.S. or Canadian Institution by the beginning of the Fellowship program and eligible for medical licensure in the state of Georgia.
Interviews are required and will be conducted from September through October. Applicant selection will be done through the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP).
Refer to website for details: Composite State Board of Medical Examiners.

Scholarship

In addition to clinical training, fellows pursue scholarship in quality improvement and original research. The quality improvement project occurs in the 2nd half of the 1st year, where fellows have improved early introduction of peanut in high risk infants, epinephrine autoinjector competency in families, and screening for anxiety in food allergic patients.

The scholarly project occurs in the second year, with 50% dedicated protected time. The area of concentration is selected based on the interest of the fellow who is responsible for designing, implementing, and completing a hypothesis-driven scholarly project under the guidance of a Scholarship Oversight Committee (SOC) of advisors and mentors. We meet with fellows in the fall of their 1st year to collaboratively identify areas of interest and potential mentors.

For more information about ongoing and recent projects, we invite you to check out our Research and Quality Improvement website.

Research and Quality Improvement

Curriculum

First Year

The primary pediatric allergy/immunology clinic is at the Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Center for Advanced Pediatrics.

Fellows have their own pediatric continuity clinic where they evaluate and follow a variety of new patients while developing a patient panel they will follow during the first and second years. Fellows have their own schedule and are the primary provider, with the attending available for supervision and feedback.
Adult Outpatient Experiences take place at the Emory Clinic and the Grady Asthma and Allergy Clinic. Fellows also receive a dedicated community allergy/immunology experience to learn the private practice aspects of our specialty. Fellows receive training under the mentorship of Dr. Stan Fineman, MD, MBA. Dr. Fineman is an adjunct associate professor at Emory University with forty years of experience and has received national honors such as the ACAAI Gold Headed Cane Award and the AAAAI Outstanding Volunteer Clinical Faculty Award.
Pediatric Inpatient Experiences: Inpatient Service Fellows will spend time on the Pulmonology and Infectious Disease consult services, the Bone Marrow Transplant unit, as well as perform inpatients consults for Allergy/Immunology. They will perform inpatient rounds, complete consultations, communicate the care plan to the resident and attendings, provide teaching for residents, and ensure all patient care plans are carried out. In addition, fellows are encouraged to follow patients in their outpatient clinics after discharge.
Adult inpatient consultations are performed at Emory University Hospital, located on the same campus as Egleston Hospital. Adult inpatient consultations are also performed at Grady Memorial Hospital.

Second Year

Fellows solidify clinical and team leadership skills. Fellows develop research skills through conducting a project in either basic/translational laboratory investigation or clinical investigation. Each fellow develops a hypothesis-driven research project culminating in publication of a manuscript or grant proposal.

Outpatient Clinic: During two half days continuity clinic each week the fellow monitors patient panel collected during year one.
Inpatient Service: Fellows take progressively more responsibility for patient care for inpatient consults; with supervision and teaching of the residents and first year fellow, in consultation with the attending physician.
Scholarly Project: The fellow identifies a mentor and laboratory, and works during the first year to develop a research plan to be implemented in the second year.

Electives

Fellows also rotate through adjacent subspecialties in both the adult and pediatric populations including dermatology, rheumatology, pulmonology, otolaryngology, and Immune Dysregulation/Bone Marrow Transplantation.