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Title of GIM Fellowship:	General Internal Medicine Fellowship Program
Sponsoring Institution:	Medical College of Wisconsin
Fellowship Director:	Marilyn M. Schapira, MD, MPH

Contact Information: Name and address of the person whom applicants should contact for routine information regarding the fellowship.

Name:

Marilyn M. Schapira, MD, MPH

Address:

Froedtert East Clinic, E4200

9200 W. Wisconsin Avenue

MilwaukeeWI53226

Telephone Number:

(414) 456-6890

Fax Number:

(414) 456-6212

Email:

mschap@mcw.edu

Program Website:

For what careers are fellows being prepared? Please also select the principal career focus of the program.
Career Types	Principal Focus	Principal Focus(2)
Clinician-Investigators	X
Clinician-Educators
Clinician
Health Managers
Other:

Is there a deadline for the application?

What year did the GIM Fellowship enroll its first fellows?

1969

How many fellows have entered the program to date?

How many fellows have graduated (completed at least 2 years) from the program to date?

How many of these graduates have full-time positions in academic medicine?

What is the number of full-time faculty members who participate in the fellowship program? How many of those faculty are key faculty (e.g., spend at least 2 hours per week teaching or supervising in the program)?

Faculty:	12
Key Faculty:	8

Is there any external grant or contract for financial support for the fellowship program? If so what is/are the source(s)? Check all that apply.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program

General Internal Medicine Faculty Development Program (from HRSA)

Department of Veterans Affairs Ambulatory Care Fellowship Program

Institutional National Research Service Award (NRSA Grant)

Other:

How many positions are currently availabe for each year of the program and what are the salaries (stipends) and numbers of the weeks of paid vacation?
Year:	Number of Positions 2010-2011:	Annual Salary (excluding benefits) 2010-2011:	Weeks of Paid Vacation 2010-2011:
Year 1	2	41000	4
Year 2	2	42230	4
Year 3

How many positions did the program offer or expect to offer for year 1 of the program in the following years? If the number is only an approximation of positions for a particular year, please indicate.
Year:	Number of First year Positions:	Approximate?
2008-2009
2009-2010
2010-2011
2011-2012

What benefits are provided to fellows? Check all that are provided.
	Liability (Malpractice) Insurance	Health Insurance
	Dental Insurance	Disability Insurance
	Life Insurance	Maternity/Paternity Leave
	Parking	Meals (while working at institution)
	Uniforms	Laundry (for uniforms)
	Housing Allowance	Time off for conferences/educational leave
	Personal office space	Funds for conferences (including travel)
	Funds for books, journals, etc.	Free copying
	Free computerized bibliographic Searching	Access to word processor/typist
	Access to computer for research	Access to statician/computer programmer
	Funds for research expenses	Graduate school tuition

Are fellows permitted to moonlight?

Yes

How many nights (including weekends) per month are fellows on-call? If on-call frequency varies throughout the year, indicate range (e.g. 2-4).

In-hospital:	on call	0	nights/month
At-home:	on call	0	nights/month

Is there have a detailed description of the fellowship training program (such as a brochure) which is available for potential applicants upon request?

Yes

Does each fellow have an assigned mentor who counsels the fellow on career goals, how to use the program, to further career goals and job placement?

Yes

Will potential applicants or applicants be given the name and telephone number of program graduates they can contact?

Yes

In which research areas are projects being conducted by GIM faculty (or faculty from affiliated academic programs) in which fellows can participate as investigators? Check all that apply.
Area:	GIM Faculty:	Affiliated Program Faculty:
Geriatrics
Preventive/Occupational Medicine
Epidemiology/Clinical Epidemiology
Medical Education
Appropriate Utilization of Health Services
Health Economies
Decision Analysis/Clincal Decision Making
Clinical Pharmacology
Medical Informatics/Computers
Medical Ethics/Law
Behavioral or Social Medicine
Public Health
Health Policy
Clinical Observation Studies (case studies)
Clinical Intervention Studies (including clinical trials)
Basic Laboratory Science

Which of the following types of conferences do fellows regularly attend? How frequently are they scheduled each month?
Conference Type:	Check if Fellows Attend:	Number of Conferences/month:
Journal club
Research conferences		0
Teaching methods conferences		0
Clinical conferences		0

During the first two years of the fellowship program, how much time does a fellow spend in the following activies? Assume that a half a day per week for two years is 10% and one month full-time is 4%.
Learning teaching methods	2.5%
Performing supervised teaching	2.5%
Learning research methods	30%
Performing supervised research	40%
Learning Management/adminsitrative methods/skills	2.5%
Inpatient clinical practice	2.5%
Outpatient clinical practice	20%
Other:	0%

Do the fellows conduct independent research projects leading to papers published in refereed journals for which the fellow is first author? If so, how many independent research projects does the average fellow conduct during two years of the fellowship?

Yes: 2

Can a fellow enter an advanced degree educational program as part of the fellowship? If so, which program?

MPH
MS
Other: MA in Bioethics, MSc in Medical Informatics MSc in

Is this degree program an integral part of the fellowship or is it optional?

Integral

Does the fellow pay tuition costs of the degree program?

(Optional) A narrative description of the fellowship training program may be included. IT IS STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO DO SO BECAUSE APPLICANTS VALUE THE INFORMATION.

The Medical College of Wisconsin General Internal Medicine (GIM) Fellowship Program provides the advanced skills and training needed to successfully pursue a career in academic GIM. The core of the two year program involves training in research skills, course-work, faculty development, and clinical practice. Fellows work individually with a faculty mentor throughout the fellowship program. Areas of research focus in GIM at the Medical College of Wisconsin include chronic disease management in the adult population, medical decision making for disease prevention, and evaluation of innovative initiatives in medical education. The fellowship supports tuition for fellows to obtain an advanced academic degree as part of their fellowship program. Fellows may pursue a Master of Science in Epidemiology, a Master of Arts in Bioethics, or a Master of Science in Medical Informatics. Clinical sites include two academically affiliated tertiary care hospitals as well as primary care clinical

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