Education

Education Overview

Fellowship Program

The Pediatric Endocrinology Fellowship Program at Stanford School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford (LPCH) is an ACGME accredited 3-year training program designed to prepare physicians who are board eligible in pediatrics to become leaders in the field of pediatric endocrinology and diabetes in academic or clinical medicine.

Each fellow completes one year of clinical training and two years of either basic science, clinical or translational research and participates in grant writing and a quality improvement project. Clinical training is performed both on Stanford campus at the Mary L. Johnson Pediatric Ambulatory Care clinic and at Stanford Children’s Health endocrinology clinics located in neighboring communities, Los Gatos and Sunnyvale.

Residency Training/Visiting Residents

Residency programs include the Categorical Residency Program in Pediatrics and a combined program in Pediatrics and Anesthesiology. The Categorical Residency Program provides broad-based exposure to general pediatrics, critical care, and subspecialty pediatrics. The Combined Residency in Pediatrics and Anesthesiology is a five-year program that prepares trainees for board certification in both specialties. Learn more about the residency program.

Visiting Residents: Stanford University Medical Center accepts visiting residents from ACGME-accredited programs in the United States and Canada. Observerships are not allowed. Individuals interested in the Pediatric Endocrinology elective should contact Kim Vo. Learn about eligibility and application.

Rotation Contacts

Medical Student Education

Clinical instruction consists of the Core Pediatrics Clerkship course (PEDS 300A) and numerous specialty elective clerkships. The eight-week core involves clinical experiences at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, and Kaiser Santa Clara. Elective clerkships include Medical Genetics, Pediatric Cardiology, Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes, Pediatric Hematology-oncology, Pediatric Nephrology, Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Infectious Diseases, Intensive Care, and Adolescent Medicine.

The Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes Clerkship course (PEDS 304A) provides in-depth exposure to endocrine disorders and diabetes in children. The clinical experience is primarily in the pediatric endocrine and diabetes clinics at the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford and satellite clinics in Sunnyvale and Los Gatos under the direct guidance of faculty. Learn more about visiting clerkship eligibility and requirements.

Clerkship Contacts

Stanford Clinical Opportunity for Residency Experience (SCORE)

The Stanford Clinical Opportunity for Residency Experience (SCORE) program invites medical students from diverse backgrounds to experience the richness of Stanford during clinical rotations. SCORE recognizes that Stanford Medicine’s ideal of true community engagement is unlikely to occur without a workforce that is diverse in many ways. This includes individuals who are underrepresented in medicine, socially, economically, or educationally disadvantaged, and others whose backgrounds and experiences would diversify their clinical fields. Learn about eligibility and application.

Postdoctoral Training

Visiting Scholars

Visiting Scholars are recognized experts with doctoral degrees who wish to visit Stanford from an outside institution. Scholars may not be paid, but must provide proof of outside funding. Many past visiting scholars have been awarded the ISPAD Allan Drash Scholarship.