Pediatric Rheumatology Fellowship

As a pediatric rheumatology fellowship training program, we aim to provide superior education for our trainees and guidance from outstanding mentors. Keeping with our belief that quality education is inseparable from our quality patient care, the partnership between the Feinberg School of Medicine and Lurie Children’s affords many opportunities for residents to further their education in a pediatric specialty.

By completing our comprehensive curriculum, our graduates will become:

• Providers of outstanding clinical care
• Academic clinicians who perform research that improves patient care
• Local and national leaders in pediatric rheumatology
• Skilled professionals serving diverse cultures and populations

• Lurie Children’s Medical Education and Training
• Lurie Children’s Office of Pediatric Fellowship Programs

Our fellowship program’s research component offers the opportunity for fellows to design and conduct a substantive research or scholarly project of their own as well as participate in the division’s overall research and QI initiatives. From this, our fellows have successfully published as well as formulated plans for ongoing research and scholarship post fellowship. Fellows are encouraged to seek out mentorship, form relationships and to work in an interdisciplinary manner with physicians and scientists across the larger Northwestern/McGaw community, including not only those in our division and the Department of Pediatrics but also in adult rheumatology in the Department of Medicine (including the opportunity to participate in their NIH T32 training grant), the Department of Medical Social Sciences, the Stanley Manne Children’s Research Institute and the Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute. The T32, in particular, offers mentorship and financial support for trainees. Fellows also have the opportunity through the university to pursue specific coursework useful to developing their research skills and, if desired, a master of sciences. The division also participates in national multicenter research coordinated through the Pediatric Rheumatology Collaborative Study Group and the Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance.

• Stanley Manne Children's Research Institute Video
• Trainee Stories: Kyle MacQuarrie, MD, PhD Video

The fellowship clinical experience will encompass both the inpatient and outpatient experience. Our division’s attending physicians supervise a resident-run inpatient service at Lurie Children’s and each follow a large panel of outpatients. Outpatient visits to our clinics number over 6,000 per year. In the recent academic year, faculty saw over 1,000 new outpatients at Lurie Children’s and its suburban outreach clinics, in addition to managing the care of over 100 inpatients. Our physicians care for patients with a variety of diagnoses, including juvenile idiopathic arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, juvenile dermatomyositis, autoinflammatory syndromes, scleroderma and various vasculitides. One of our physicians is certified in ultrasonography and teaches on a national platform. The division utilizes a team approach to patient care. Members of the team include six skilled nurses and a pediatric nurse practitioner. Our team also includes professionals in social work, physical and occupational therapy and orthotics.

Fellowship applicants must complete an ACGME-approved residency in pediatrics from a U.S.-based institution before entering our program. 

Our program participates in the fall specialties match of the National Resident Matching Program. Applications should be sent through the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS). Interested applicants may also enquire about how to apply outside of the match, if we have any unfilled positions, by contacting our division directly.

In addition to the basic application, the complete application packet should include:

• A current curriculum vitae
• Medical School Transcript
• USMLE scores
• At least three letters of recommendation
• A personal statement
• ECFMG status report or certificate (if applicable)

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