Training Programs
Clinical Training
The National Capital Consortium (NCC) Fellowship in Gynecologic Oncology is comprised of the former WRAMC and National Naval Medical Center Fellowships. With the integration of the OB/GYN residency in 1995, the Gynecologic Oncology Services were consolidated at WRAMC, under the direction of the National Capital Consortium Graduate Medical Education Committee, an ACFME–recognized institutional sponsor coordinated through the medical school at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU).
The current clinical institutions involved in the NCC Fellowship in Gynecologic Oncology are WRAMC and the Washington Hospital Center. During the clinical years of the program, the second and third year of fellowship, one fellow is assigned to WRAMC and one fellow is assigned to WHC. The other affiliated institutions are the National Cancer Institute, where the fellows perform their basic science research, and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences F. Edward Herbert School of Medicine. These institutions and their relationship to the fellowship are described under separate headings below.
Research Training
The National Cancer Institute, specifically, the Molecular Mechanisms Section of the Medicine Branch under the direction of Michael Birrer, M.D., Ph.D., and the laboratory of Biosystems and Cancer section under the direction of John Risinger, Ph.D., are our affiliated institution for fellow research. Each Principle Investigator has primary oversight of the fellows’ basic science research. They provide the bench space, budget, and consumable supplies and administrative support for the research. They also assign a post-doctoral investigator to work with the Gynecologic Oncology fellow.
During the research year, the fellows’ primary responsibility is to complete a research project that will ideally become their thesis. It is expected that the fellow will devote in excess of 90% of his or her time to the completion of the thesis and that the thesis will be acceptable for publication in a previewed journal. The fellowship is structured to allow for protected time so that they may focus on their project.
Fellows Trained at WRAMC
