Fellowship Training

• This fellowship is a one-year, non-ACGME accredited training program that features a concurrent 1-year of clinical training on-site at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital (LPCH) Stanford campus with a one-year distance learning curriculum with the Academy of Pediatric Integrative Medicine (APIM). The fellowship is housed under the department of pediatrics at Stanford School of Medicine.
• The successful finalist will enroll in the spring APIM Fellowship Program in January of the academic year and satisfactorily complete that program's online coursework over one year.
• The fellow will concurrently enroll as a 1-year fellow at Stanford with a hire date in July (allowing 2 prior days for required orientation) and end this clinical training in July of the following year, while continuing to finish the APIM course work.
• In addition to our program, the fellow has full access to the department of pediatrics office of education programming. They offer a core curriculum for fellows as well as research and grant writing clubs, a fellows' council, wellness programming and more opportunities to connect with peers for networking and social support as interested.

• Fellowship Learning Objectives
• Participants will be able to:
• Practice integrative medicine either in an academic setting or in private practice
• Conduct research in integrative medicine to advance the evidence base
• Train students and colleagues in the basic principles and practices of integratice medicine
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We propose a three-pronged approach to the integrative medicine training:

1) Clinical Experience 2) Self-Directed Learning and 3) Research.

Clinical Experience

Fellows in the Stanford Pediatric Integrative Medicine program will work side by side with pediatric integrative medicine providers / subspecialists in pediatric pulmonary, gastroenterology, and pain to develop an integrative medicine outpatient practice that puts in place the integrative medicine approach. Fellows will have their own clinic that will be precepted by the integrative medicine faculty. Fellows will have a case review on a bimonthly basis of interesting / challenging cases for faculty discussion and review. Fellows will also do clinical rotation at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center for underserved PIM clinic.

We plan to partner with the Academy of Pediatric Integrative Medicine and enfold their 1-year distance learning fellowship into the Stanford Pediatric integrative Medicine fellowship. More information about this program can be found here.

NOTE: Upon completion of the APIM fellowship, the fellow is eligible to sit for the ABOIM boards.

• *Fellow funding to participate in the APIM Fellowship is contingent on external funding sources and availability of this portion is variable on a year-by-year basis. If the self-directed learning through the APIM Fellowship is not available, the faculty are committed to create a curriculum that will allow the fellow to be eligible to sit for the ABOIM boards.

Research

Fellows will conduct original research in integrative medicine with a research mentor during their fellowship and write a manuscript suitable for publication. Assessments of the program and the fellowship will occur on a regular basis. We will use the ACGME pediatric subspecialty milestones for evaluation. Fellows will evaluate integrative medicine faculty 1x per year, and faculty will evaluate the fellow semi-annually. The fellow will meet with the program director semiannually for formative and summative evaluation. There will be an annual program evaluation by faculty and fellows.

Our Pediatric Integrative Medicine fellows are part of and supported by both the Office of Pediatric Education and Stanford's office of Graduate Medical Education.

Office of Pediatric Education:
https://med.stanford.edu/pedsfellowships.html
- Access to Core Curriculum including Fellows’ College, Scholarship Academy, Grant Writing Club, Scholarship Club and Well-Being Program
- Community building with fellows throughout the Department of Pediatrics by participation in the Fellows Council and social events.

Stanford GME:
For more information, visit here.