Welcome From the Program Director
Hello applicants!
We have an excellent training environment here in the beautiful Pacific Northwest and hope you will consider us in your application process. We strive to provide a balance between clinical education, scholarly activity, and personal well-being.
I want to highlight a few of the unique experiences of our training program:
- World class diabetes training at our Diabetes Institute, where clinical work and research are combined in one location for state of the art diabetes care
- Integrated clinical care with our pediatric endocrine colleagues, providing opportunities for Med-Peds trained residents to complete dual-fellowship training
- Global Health opportunities for research and teaching at the UW clinical site in Naivasha, Kenya
- Support for trainees interested in pursuing an MPH or MS through our T-32 training grants
- Extensive training in interventional thyroidology, including ultrasound, fine needle aspiration, ethanol ablation and radiofrequency ablation
- Strong focus on health disparities, working to ensure all our patients have access to the best clinical care through QI research and patient advocacy
As program director, I am very invested in the quality of training we provide our fellows and am always working with our fellows and faculty to ensure your training is a rewarding and valuable experience. I hope that you will consider our program as you are looking at potential training sites, and please reach out if you have any questions. We are all looking forward to meeting you!
Tracy Tylee
Associate Professor
Program Director
Vision, Mission & Values
Our Vision
To be a nationally recognized and fully accredited ACGME training program for internal medicine graduates passionate about endocrinology and metabolism.
Our Mission
- Train the next generation of leaders in endocrinology and metabolism for careers in academics or community practice.
- Establish a learning environment that supports diversity, equity, and inclusion.
- Provide trainees the opportunity to explore the different areas of endocrinology and personalize training to develop their clinical interests.
- Encourage trainees to improve the delivery of health care through scholarly projects in basic research, clinical research, quality improvement projects, and/or medical education.
- Help trainees to achieve their personal goals through education and mentoring in a supportive environment with faculty who are invested in the success of all our trainees.
Our Values:
Clinical Experience
- Our trainees rotate across multiple clinic sites with diverse patient populations, providing experience managing a wide variety of endocrine disorders.
- Inpatient rotations take place in world-renowned academic medical centers and provide experience managing a wide range of endocrine complications of surgeries and malignancies.
- Elective rotations provide experience with the evaluation of many outpatient endocrine disorders, including bone, pituitary, PCOS, thyroid nodules, thyroid cancer, and inpatient glycemic management.
Diversity
- We encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds and training experiences to apply to our program.
- Our patient population encompasses patients from all socioeconomic strata and those from diverse backgrounds, encouraging trainees to address and work to reduce bias in the healthcare system.
Academic Growth
- Our program provides opportunities for clinical research projects based on trainees’ interests.
- Fellows receive support for completing clinical research or quality improvement projects during training to expand medical knowledge and improve the health care system.
- Fellows are encouraged and provided support to attend national conferences annually.
Wellness
- We have developed a schedule that includes a balance of clinical work, self-directed learning, reduced travel, and scholarly time to avoid physician burnout.
- All fellows are assigned a faculty mentor during training to assist with navigating transitions throughout training.
- Our faculty are committed and invested in the long-term wellness and success of all our trainees.