WashU Rheumatology fellows rotate at three clinical sites: WashU Medicine’s main and Village Square campuses as well as the John Cochran VA Medical Center.
Inpatient Rheumatology Consultations at Barnes-Jewish Hospital
Barnes-Jewish Hospital is a top-tier health center with 1,400 beds (the largest in Missouri!). Fellows complete inpatient rheumatology consultations during their first year (all fellows) and second year (fellows pursuing the clinical and medical education tracks). Can’t wait to manage small vessel vasculitis with diffuse alveolar hemorrhage? Complex lupus with pericarditis? Paraneoplastic manifestations of rheumatic disease? Barnes-Jewish Hospital will deliver on all accounts and more!
Outpatient Care at the Center for Advanced Medicine
The Center for Advanced Medicine houses WashU’s general and specialty rheumatology clinics. In continuity clinics, fellows oversee their own panel of patients referred in the outpatient setting and patients first encountered on the inpatient consultation service. Fellows also work alongside attending physicians in faculty’s general rheumatology and specialty clinics to learn a variety of approaches to patient care. Once a month, second-year fellows rotate through the Diagnostic Musculoskeletal Ultrasonography Clinic, where they hone their procedural skills.
Outpatient Care at Village Square
Village Square , located in Hazelwood, Missouri (about 25 minutes from main campus), increases health care accessibility for patients living in underserved communities. Fellows in the clinical and medical education tracks will have continuity clinics and lupus clinics during their second year at Village Square. The Village Square mission is so special that I (LZ) see patients here too because I want to contribute to WashU Rheumatology’s initiatives in health advocacy.
Fellows’ Continuity Clinic at the VA
The John Cochran VA Medical Center is about 10 minutes west of main campus. Under the direction of Colin Diffie, MD , WashU oversees the John Cochran Division of Rheumatology. All first-year fellows and any second-year fellows enrolled in the clinical and medical education tracks have a weekly continuity clinic at the VA. First-year fellows also rotate in a weekly Diagnostic Musculoskeletal Ultrasonography Clinic that develops their procedural skills.
Outpatient and Inpatient Care at the VA
First-year fellows spend two-week rotations at the John Cochran VA Medical Center. During these blocks, fellows see inpatient consultations and work in the clinics of Colin Diffie, MD and Andrew Jones, MD, PhD . Fellows appreciate the VA’s bread-and-butter rheumatology cases that complement the complex patient care at main campus.