UHN/SHS Hospital Medicine Clinical Fellowship Program

In contrast to the United States, the majority of hospitalists in Canada are family medicine trained. The remainder include practitioners of general internal medicine, medical subspecialists, and pediatrics. While many have some training in the care of hospitalized patients, most lack formal training in areas that are considered vital to hospitalists. These areas include health care delivery system issues, continuum of care issues and end of life/palliative care.

Patients admitted to the hospital today are older, have more co-morbidities and often require coordinated care from a multidisciplinary health care team. Providing excellent, resource sensitive, hospital care to these patients requires a certain skill set that is not usually covered in traditional graduate medical training programs. In addition, acquiring these skills will make one a highly desirable candidate for a leadership position in a community based or academic hospitalist program.

If you are an enthusiastic, hardworking Family Medicine or Internal Medicine trained physician who enjoys acute care medicine and wants to strengthen your hospital based skills, you should apply to this fellowship. While international medical graduates will be considered, preference will be given to North American trained physicians especially those holding a license to practice in Canada.