The Allergy Fellowship Program at FAHZU provides a unique environment for exceptional candidates to pursue advanced training in allergic diseases covering ENT, respiratory, gastrointestinal, and skin systems.

During your training, your responsibilities increase with your experience, capability, and performance. You will become highly skilled in the multi-disciplinary management of adult and pediatric allergic diseases including the allergic rhinitis, chronic rhinosinusitis, asthma, atopic dermatitis, urticaria, food allergy, drug allergy, eosinophilic related diseases, clinical immunology lab, pulmonary function testing, immune deficiency, and genetics. And gain extensive experience with the clinical and research tools needed for a successful academic career in this field.

From the moment you step foot on campus, you’ll notice we care about people differently. Our firm belief that the needs of the patient come first is the foundation of a culture that unites every health care provider, scientist, student, and trainee in a singular mission to provide hope and healing to the world.

We take note of where you came from and what led you here. Everything we do is centered around mentoring you in medical research and patient care to have the impact you’ve always known you could have.

1. Learning about and performing both common and rare allergic related diseases.

2. Having direct access to faculty members that, in addition to caring for patients in their clinical practices, are committed to teaching and facilitating the growth of medical knowledge.

3. Participating in outpatient and procedures each working day as part of a small team working with one senior staff. New patients are presented, outpatient management is reviewed, and teaching sessions are held.

4. Outstanding research opportunities.

5. Ample opportunity to complete or participate clinical research projects.

6. A strong didactic training program that includes a monthly sophisticated cases conference as well as weekly MDT, and journal club.

The goal of our program is to prepare trainees to achieve excellence in the multidisciplinary clinical care of patients with common and rare allergic related diseases. Through exposure to a range of investigators engaged in diverse clinical, translational, and basic research in allergy and clinical immunology, we also aim to provide our advanced trainees a strong foundation in clinical investigation to launch them into successful careers in academic medicine. Dedicated research time and resources will allow our trainees to develop and execute independent research projects with the appropriate mentorship.

The program provides a full-time, 4-week to 6-month training experience. In special circumstances, arrangements can be made for other lengths of training depending on your needs and interests.

• Fellows: Qualified applicants for the Allergy Fellowship must have completed related residency program (internal medicine, dermatology, ENT, pediatrics, family medicine etc.) at an accredited institution.

• Students:

1. Must be a senior medical student when you are scheduled to participate in the rotation.

2. Medical School Approval - Letter of good standing from the dean’s office of your medical school, good academic standing and meet all requirements to complete an clinical observership for academic credit. 

Focus Areas & Subspecialties:

1. Allergic rhinitis

2. Chronic rhinosinusitis with or without nasal polyps

3. Asthma

4. Chronic cough

5. Atopic dermatitis

6. Urticaria

7. Pediatric allergic diseases

8. Food allergy

9. Drug allergy

10. Eosinophilic diseases

11. Multidisciplinary team management

12. Pulmonary function test

13. Clinical immunology test

Skills:

1. Basic skills: Allergic testing, allergic immunotherapy, monoclonal antibody therapy

2. Lab related Skills: Pulmonary function test, FeNO, FnNO, sIgE and component resolved diagnosis, BAT, food and drug challenge test.

1st Week: Introduction & Welcome, Program Overview and Objectives, Department Introduction

Weekly: MDT Conferences, Complicated Case Study

Weekly:

Mentor One-On-One Training:

-Topics:

1. Clinical Immunology

2. Common Allergic Diseases

3. Rare Diseases

4. Lab Techniques

Biweekly: Journal Club

After each rotation, each faculty member evaluates each fellow according to core competencies of patient care, medical knowledge, practice-based learning and improvement, interpersonal and communication skills, professionalism, and system-based practice. Faculty members meet with fellows individually for verbal feedback and evaluation. Monthly, an aggregate evaluation of a fellow’s clinical progress is conducted through a clinical competency faculty committee.

The program is free of charge.