Hematology and Medical Oncology Fellowship
Geisinger’s Hematology and Medical Oncology Fellowship program trains you to be a compassionate, skilled and well-rounded clinician and researcher who’s ready to work with multidisciplinary teams in rural and urban systems.
About us
The best medical oncologists aren’t just great clinicians. They’re compassionate people who listen to patients and their families and consider themselves partners in care.
That’s the type of fellow we seek for Geisinger's 36-month, ACGME-accredited Hematology and Medical Oncology Fellowship program.
We’ll train you to provide high-quality, high-value hematologic and oncologic care. And our faculty mentors will help you become a better, more empathetic communicator, too, so your patients have the best experience possible.
Uniquely situated in a rural area with two urban centers, Geisinger is an integrated system that allows you to treat a mix of rural and urban patients. Along with working at our flagship hospital, Geisinger Medical Center, you’ll train at our state-of-the-art Frank M. and Dorothea Henry Cancer Center at Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center in Wilkes-Barre.
As our hematology and oncology fellow, you’ll also be exposed to a variety of field-specific and clinical experiences, train in cancer-specific multidisciplinary clinics and conduct mentored research.
You’ll be joining a vibrant, diverse community of clinicians, scholars and researchers. Geisinger's Cancer Institute is one of eight clinical institutes that serves more than 1 million people in 45 counties throughout Pennsylvania. And Geisinger is designated by the National Cancer Institute as a National Community Oncology Research Program (NCI-NCORP).
Our goals are:
- To mentor and train ambitious, empathetic physicians to be proficient specialists in hematology and oncology, including proficiency in evaluation, diagnosis, communication and treatment.
- To foster use of an interdisciplinary care approach for hematologic and oncologic disorders.
- To enhance clinical research into hematologic and oncologic conditions with a focus on cancer care delivery, rural health issues and patient access.
- To promote education, growth and professionalism in the field of hematology and oncology.
Program overview
The first year of your hematology and medical oncology fellowship will focus on outpatient care for hematology and oncology patients. You’ll also take part in four half-day clinics, chosen so you have exposure to breast, gastrointestinal, thoracic, genitourinary and hematologic oncology, as well as benign hematologic disorders.
Your first year will also include training in inpatient consultative hematology. During this rotation, you’ll broaden your experience through exposure to the breadth of benign and malignant hematologic conditions.
In your second and third year, you’ll train in:
- Inpatient hematology
- Bone marrow transplant and the oncology consult service
- Hematopathology
- Radiation oncology
- Neuro-oncology
Electives
Our inpatient hematology rotation focuses on the evaluation and treatment of acute leukemia and heme malignancy, as well as stem cell transplant. You’ll complete most of your rotations at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville.
In year two, you’ll spend three months at Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center, a rotation that includes inpatient consultative services and continuity clinics. Geisinger Wyoming Valley is home to the Henry Cancer Center, a newly renovated 92,000-square-foot, four-story, state-of-the-art facility in Wilkes-Barre, a one-hour drive from Danville. There, you’ll have the chance to train with different faculty in a community setting and see a different array of disease acuity and pathology. We’ll pay for your housing during this rotation.
Geisinger is research-focused, and you’ll conduct hypothesis-driven, mentored research as part of your hematology and medical oncology fellowship.
About Geisinger
Geisinger serves more than 1 million people in central and northeastern Pennsylvania. We’ve been nationally recognized for innovative practices in quality, delivery models such as ProvenCare® and the use of an award-winning electronic medical record, Epic®. Our physician-led system has about 24,000 employees, including more than 1,600 physicians, 10 hospital campuses, two research centers and a health plan with more than half a million members, all of which boost our hometown economies by $7.1 billion annually.
Location
Danville, Pa., is a unique and wonderful place to train. Opportunities for outdoor recreation are endless, the cost of living is low and traffic is almost nonexistent. In addition, we are close enough to Philadelphia, New York City and Washington, D.C., to make weekend getaways easy.
