Hematology Oncology Fellowship Teaching Sites
The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center is a complex of institutions and campuses located in West Texas, which educate health professionals, undertake medical research, and provide patient care. Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵ is a multi-campus system with regional academic health centers (RAHCs) located in three West Texas cities (Amarillo, Lubbock, and Odessa). Lubbock is the home of Texas Tech University and is the administrative center of the Health Sciences Center system.
Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵ's service area comprises 107 counties in West Texas and covers 130,000 square miles. This area contains nine growing urban centers with highly sophisticated medical complexes. Many excellent opportunities for practice development exist in both rural and urban West Texas communities.
Educational programs at each RAHC recognize the individual clinical and research strengths of that center. Because research enhances patient care and is an essential component of quality academic health sciences center programs, Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵ strongly encourages research interests.
The School of Medicine's clinical departments have introduced many specialized programs previously unavailable in West Texas or Eastern New Mexico. Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵ offers these services: Radiation Therapy Center, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Medical Intensive Care Unit, Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Burn Care and Treatment Center, Emergency Medical Services, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Regional Emergency Air Care Transport, Trauma Center (level 1), Pediatric Intermediate Care, Day Surgery Center, Minor Emergency Center, Family Care Unit, Southwest Cancer Treatment and Research Center, Seniors' Education Programs, Cardiac Catheterization Lab, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, Gastrointestinal Diagnostic Center, Hypertension Referral Center, Psychiatric Care and International Pain Institute.
Modern and spacious library facilities are located on each Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵ campus. The Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵ libraries subscribe to 3471 journals. Journal subscriptions and medical books comprise a collection of 289,736 bound volumes and have over 250 HSC related electronic books with access to 24,503 (2,239 electronic journal titles). In addition, 14,424 audiovisual items (videotapes, audiotapes and slides) are available. The libraries also provide access to the internet and multiple databases such as Medline, Up-To-Date, CINAHL, IPA, and Micromedex.
The 412-bed opened in 1978 and is the primary teaching hospital for the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. UMC in concert with Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵ is committed to providing opportunities for educational excellence and unsurpassed state-of-the-art health care delivery to the residents of Lubbock, West Texas, and Eastern New Mexico. UMC has over 400 physicians and over 200 residents on staff, and employs 1,800 people.
UMC is a regional referral center for specialized pediatric services, including Maternal-Fetal Intensive Care Unit, a Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, and a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. Physicians also refer patients to UMC's adult acute care services: the Burn Intensive Care Unit, Kidney Transplant Center, High Risk Obstetrical Care, and Freestanding Ambulatory Care Clinics associated with UMC provide further referrals from the community to the hospital.
UMC's Emergency Medical Services provide the area with the most sophisticated and complete emergency services available. AeroCare, the emergency medical air care service operated by UMC and Covenant Health Systems, EMS paramedics, and physicians provide continuous emergency room coverage, qualifying the UMC Emergency Room as the only Level 1 Trauma Center on the South Plains.
UMC also supports the multidisciplinary International Pain Institute, the interdisciplinary , a comprehensive Gastrointestinal Lab, the Sports Medicine Center, the and the McInturff Conference and Education Center. The and programs at UMC address the unique health issues of women and senior citizens.
offers an exceptional environment for Hematology and Medical Oncology fellows, providing invaluable hands-on experience in a premier cancer facility. Fellows are afforded the unique opportunity to conduct comprehensive initial evaluations for these patients and to ensure ongoing care continuity post-diagnosis.
In this dynamic setting, fellows actively participate in crucial decisions regarding surgical interventions, chemotherapy protocols, and radiation therapy regiments. Additionally, they are empowered to perform essential procedures as needed, such as bronchoscopies and thoracenteses, further enhancing their clinical skill set and contributing to the holistic care of patients.
provides Hematology and Oncology fellows a satellite teaching site. This site includes outpatient and inpatient, including critical care units, stem cell transplant unit and general internal medicine floor services. It also provides non internal medicine inpatient services with frequent consultation to Hematology and Oncology services for management advice. The Hematology/Oncology fellows will have the opportunity to increase their medical knowledge, enhance their clinical skills, increase their clinical experience and enhance their clinical judgment while rotating at JACC/Covenant Hospital. In addition, they will have the opportunity to work in a private health care system with experienced attending physicians.
provides Hematology Oncology fellows with a satellite teaching site. This site includes a stem cell transplant unit, outpatient, inpatient and general internal medicine floor service. The educational objective is to provide a sophisticated and comprehensive exposure to the principles and practice of high close therapies and autologous and allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, including the infectious disease complications as well as graft-versus-host disease. Goals and Objectives specific to ACGME competencies are attached.
Fellows will take good care of patients allocated to them. Fellows will also be responsible for diagnostic and the therapeutic procedures including bone marrow biopsies and intrathecal chemotherapy administration via lumbar puncture and/or Ommaya reservoir tap.