Clinical Nutrition Fellow

Clinical Nutrition Fellow

The Department of Surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School is offering a one-year fellowship for a physician that focuses on the management of complex patients requiring parenteral or enteral nutrition support. The focus is to train one physician per year in the physician management of patients who require nutrition support. The fellow gets extensive training in assessing nutritional status in all patient populations, development of nutrition support plan, both enteral and parenteral, and execution of this plan in both critically ill and non-critically ill patients.

He or she will develop the skills required to manage a nutrition support service, including management of complex home nutrition support patients. The fellow also develops extensive familiarity with indications for short and long term parenteral and enteral access, and the prevention and management of venous catheter and feeding tube complications. Each fellow is involved in publishing nutrition related research, book chapters or teaching materials throughout the year.

All fellows to date, have successfully pass the Certified Nutrition Support Clinician (CNSC) exam administered by the National Board of Nutrition Support Certification (NBNSC), which is an independent credentialing board of established in 1984 by the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (A.S.P.E.N).

Requirements:

A strong interest in nutrition support

Completed at least 3 years of post-graduate training (minimum of PGY-3)

Licensed to practice in the United States

Visa eligible candidates are welcome to apply if USMLE has been successfully completed