DELAWARE’S FIRST AND ONLY HEMATOLOGY AND MEDICAL ONCOLOGY FELLOWSHIP
In December 2023, Bayhealth announced the accreditation of its new three-year Hematology and Medical Oncology Fellowship Program, the first of its kind in Delaware. A medical fellow is a physician who has finished residency and seeks to gain advanced training under experts in a specific subspecialty of medicine. In Bayhealth’s case, that subspecialty is hematology and medical oncology (focus on blood diseases and cancer). The first two talented fellows will join Bayhealth in July 2024 to complete specialized training with the hematologists and medical oncologists at the Bayhealth Cancer Centers, Kent and Sussex Campuses.
With the expertise of our subspecialists at Bayhealth, particularly those in our hematology and medical oncology program, adding this fellowship was a natural progression for Bayhealth’s robust Graduate Medical Education (GME) program.
Because Bayhealth’s hematology and medical oncology fellows care for patients alongside seasoned specialists as part of their training, this program is expanding access to the highest-quality, researchbased cancer care for Delawareans. The fellowship creates a pipeline to
bring more talented subspecialists to Delaware, and with it comes greater access to timely and necessary cancer treatments our friends, neighbors and loved ones.
The mission of the fellowship program is to educate, mentor and develop hematology and medical oncology physicians to provide stateof-the-art healthcare while cultivating research to expand the knowledge of neoplastic and hematologic diseases. The fellowship program focuses on educating new fellows to bring cutting-edge care to underserved and diverse populations of patients commonly served by community cancer programs.
To achieve this goal, the program has developed five aims:
• Create the next generation of hematologists and medical oncologists to serve the people of Delaware and the adjacent regions served by Bayhealth
• To train hematologists and medical oncologists to provide excellent and timely care of neoplastic, hematologic and related disorders by evidence-based medicine
• To create high standards of patient safety and quality improvements in hematology and medical oncology care
• To enhance the academic environment and teaching in our underserved communities and train hematologists and medical oncologists to serve in community cancer programs
• To advance collaboration, availability and research with interdisciplinary and interprofessional teams
These guiding principles align with the mission of the Bayhealth Cancer Institute to deliver the best cancer care in Delaware.
To support the new Bayhealth Hematology and Medical Oncology Fellowship program, scan the QR code below or go to Bayhealth.org/ Foundation/Ways-to-Give
“We are proud to educate the next generation of physicians to deliver the best cancer care in our country and region. This fellowship program is another milestone in our ability to apply knowledge of the latest clinical research in cancers and blood diseases to provide state-of-the-art prevention and treatment to our community members.”
Iftekhar
Khan,
MD Director,Bayhealth Hematology and Medical Oncology Fellowship
