Training & Curriculum
The Barbra Streisand Women's Heart Disease & Health Center Fellowship teaching service includes direct patient and medical staff interaction via daily patient rounds and clinical consultation for all matters related to female-pattern heart disease, developing new diagnostic tools and advancing specialized care for women. The fellows have to provide focused training in clinical and translational research with regard to women, the comprehensive care of women across the lifespan, and respond to patient care issues regarding women’s health in the medical institution and community.
Optional Activities
- Didactic and clinical core women's health curriculum, with rotations in:
- Bone health — endocrinology
- Reproductive health and high-risk menopause non-hormonal treatment — office-based OB/GYN
- Mental health — depression/anxiety/eating disorders clinic
- Preventive health
- Breast health — radiology
- Elective, including (but not limited to) rheumatology, cardiology, alternative and complementary medicine, uro-gynecology/pelvic floor voiding, adolescent medicine, office-based gynecological procedures, medical high-risk pregnancy and chronic pelvic pain.
- Weekly ongoing continuity clinics in office-based gynecology and women's primary care.
- Academic programs, such as weekly and monthly conferences, journal club, colloquy and quarterly interdisciplinary grand rounds on women's health topics.
- Tutorials with designated mentor(s).
- Career development seminars.
- Cedars-Sinai Clinical Scholars Program, a program of didactics and mentored clinical research training.
- Additional options (K30 Clinical Research Curriculum and Master of Public Health) are available through the University of California, Los Angeles, and University of Southern California systems.
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