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Didactic

Didactic learning is integrated throughout the entire twelve months of the fellowship. Fellows will attend IM Boot Camp and participate in MKSAP based training modules. Weekly didactic education consists of both formal and informal lectures, daily inpatient rounds, grand rounds, treatment planning conferences, and lectures offered by our pharmacology and subspecialty colleagues and specialty services. Fellows are required to attend a minimum of 3 conferences/week in order to graduate from the program. Additionally, there will be a requirement for the Internal Medicine/Rural Track Fellows to submit an abstract or clinical vignette toward the end of their fellowship.

Clinical

The core curriculum includes clinical hours in General Internal Medicine, Hematology-Oncology, or Pulmonology as well as core rotations in General Cardiology, Heart Failure, Infectious disease, and Critical Care. Additional ancillary rotations vary depending on the track and specialty availability but historically have included specialties such as CF, Transplant Medicine, Radiation-Oncology, Palliative Care/supportive oncology, and Point of Care Ultrasound, as well as training in bone marrow biopsies, and tissue biopsies.

Hematology-Oncology Inpatient and Outpatient Track 

Meghan Vigil, NP 
Associate Director 
meghan.vigil@hci.utah.edu 

Brighton Loveday, ANP-BC, AOCNP, APRN
Huntsman Director of Advance Practice Clinicians
brighton.loveday@hci.utah.edu
 

Internal Medicine Track 

Lucas Waddoups, PA-C 
Associate Director 
lucas.waddoups@hsc.utah.edu

Ellee Shields, DNP, AG-ACNP
Clinical Director 
ellee.shields@hsc.utah.edu

Tyler Cairo, PA-C
Didactic Director 
tyler.cairo@hsc.utah.edu 
 

Rural and Pulmonary Medicine Track 

Val Bayer, DNP, AG-ACNP 
Associate Director 
valkyria.bayer@hsc.utah.edu 

 

Fellowship Program Director

Alexander Gouttsoul, PA-C 
alex.gouttsoul@hsc.utah.edu