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Clinical training


Fellows provide inpatient consultation at Temple University Hospital and learn to manage acute endocrine conditions in complex, high acuity patients. 
Fellows also gain a strong foundation in outpatient endocrinology, highlighted by two half-day continuity clinic sessions a week, where fellows manage their own patient panel with a dedicated faculty preceptor.  

Additionally, fellows work one on one with faculty in multiple clinic settings, including thyroid biopsy clinic and endocrine transplant clinic.  Fellows get exposure to a wide variety of clinical settings beyond North Philadelphia including satellite sites such as Temple University Hospital – Jeanes campus, Fox Chase Cancer Center and outpatient offices in Ft. Washington, PA

Didactics
 

We offer a robust schedule of didactics that are at the heart of the educational mission of our section. Some of our conferences include:

  • Weekly Endocrine Journal Club
  • Weekly Fellows Case conference
  • Weekly Core Curriculum series
  • Endocrine Grand rounds series
  • Monthly Thyroid Cancer Case conference
  • Monthly Neurosurgery Conference

Our fellows also attend local and national meetings to learn to connect with colleagues from around the world. 

Photo of fellows in a lab

Research Experience
 

Fellows are actively involved in research and receive close mentorship from faculty when pursuing their research projects. Faculty give brief research presentations early in training so fellows can select a research mentor and identify an existing project to work on or develop their own research projects

Fellows have opportunities to participate in bench, translational and clinical research and present their work at institutional, local and national meetings. Please see link below to review recent fellow publications

Fellows also have access to the Center for Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine which can provide electronic health record data and statistical support for use in research projects.

  • A Fernando, M Herrera, M Khan, B Sharma, C Vaz Wicks Unmasking Calcineurin Inhibitor Induced Hypoaldosteronism in Secondary Adrenal Insufficiency: A Diagnostic Challenge Philly Endo Society Meeting 2025
  • Jaswaney R, Sokoloff S, Rakita V, Rubin DJ. SGLT-2 inhibitors in heart failure and chronic kidney disease: A review for internists. Cleve Clin J Med. 2024 Jul 1;91(7):415-423. doi: 10.3949/ccjm.91a.23093. PMID: 38950981.
  • Yazdian A, Minuk J, Hemenway G, Upadhyaya N, Vaz CL. Occult Pulmonary Neuroendocrine Tumor Causing Severe Hyperparathyroidism: Diagnostic Challenges and Clinical Outcomes. AACE Clin Case Rep. 2022 Jun 18;8(5):210-216. doi: 10.1016/j.aace.2022.06.002. Erratum in: AACE Clin Case Rep. 2023 Mar 24;9(2):59. doi: 10.1016/j.aace.2023.01.002. PMID: 36189140; PMCID: PMC9508597.
  • Rubin DJ, Maliakkal N, Zhao H, Miller EE. Hospital Readmission Risk and Risk Factors of People with a Primary or Secondary Discharge Diagnosis of Diabetes. J Clin Med. 2023 Feb 6;12(4):1274. doi: 10.3390/jcm12041274. PMID: 36835810; PMCID: PMC9961750.
  • Yazdian A, Minuk J, Hemenway G, Upadhyaya N, Vaz CL. Occult Pulmonary Neuroendocrine Tumor Causing Severe Hyperparathyroidism: Diagnostic Challenges and Clinical Outcomes. AACE Clin Case Rep. 2022 Jun 18;8(5):210-216. doi: 10.1016/j.aace.2022.06.002. Erratum in: AACE Clin Case Rep. 2023 Mar 24;9(2):59. doi: 10.1016/j.aace.2023.01.002. PMID: 36189140; PMCID: PMC9508597.
  • N Upadhyaya M Veluru, C Vaz Wicks Impact of an Educational Intervention on Rates of Physician-Performed Counseling on COVID-19 Vaccination in Patients With Diabetes Endocrine Reviews Volume 6, Issue Supplement_1, June  2022 ENDO 2022 Abstracts Annual Meeting of the Endocrine Society
  • K Kesavarapu, K Shah, B Kuo  H Zhao, C Vaz Wicks. Use of Anti-Hyperglycemic Agents Before and After Roux-en-y Gastric Bypass (RYGB) and Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy (LSG) Endocrine Reviews Volume 6, Issue Supplement_1, June  2022 ENDO Abstracts Annual Meeting of the Endocrine Society
  • B Kuo, R Abramczyk, S Sadiq, C Vaz Wicks Treat the Pain, Mind the Adrenals: A Case of Suspected Opiate-Induced Adrenal Insufficiency May 2022 Volume 28 Issue 5 SupplementS1-S160 AACE Annual Meeting 2022 Abstracts
  • MD Holmes T, Abramczyk R, Shaffer C, Berger M, Gibbons R, Costantino T. Woman With Fatigue and Weight Loss. Ann Emerg Med. 2022 May;79(5):497-505. doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2021.11.010. PMID: 35461582.
  • Mathai C, Anolik J. Cushing's Disease as a Result of Two ACTH-Secreting Pituitary Tumors. AACE Clin Case Rep. 2020 Dec 28;7(2):149-152. doi: 10.1016/j.aace.2020.12.002. PMID: 34095475; PMCID: PMC8053624.