Fellowship
Clinical Chemistry
The Clinical Chemistry Fellowship at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center is a two-year, non-ACGME-accredited program that admits one fellow per year.
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Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, a major medical center of Penn State Health located in Hershey, Pa., is a comprehensive academic medical center, and its campus includes Penn State Cancer Institute and Penn State Health Children’s Hospital. There are four additional hospitals in Penn State Health.
Fellows will have exposure to pediatric, elderly, transplant, psychiatric, cancer, obstetrics and gynecology, otolaryngology – head and neck surgery, and ophthalmologic patients. The mission of this program is to prepare exceptional individuals with doctoral degrees (PhD, MD) for careers in laboratory medicine. The program focuses on clinical chemistry that includes general clinical chemistry, endocrinology, toxicology, therapeutic drug monitoring, nutrition, serology and immunology, urinalysis, pharmacogenetics, proteomics, and molecular diagnostics. The principal professional opportunities are directors, educators, and scientists in clinical chemistry in hospital laboratories, public health laboratories, pharmaceutical /diagnostics industry, and commercial reference laboratories.
Program Overview
The fellowship program requires two years for completion. Candidates are not only trained in all sub-disciplines of modern clinical chemistry, but also in basic, clinical or translational research, laboratory management, and teaching. The program’s goal is to prepare candidates with sufficient practical experience and theoretical knowledge in clinical chemistry for a career in academic medicine, clinical practice or industry. The fellowship will also prepare candidates for board certification by national boards including American Board of Clinical Chemistry, National Registry of Certified Chemists and American Board of Toxicology.
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To be considered for the program, prospective fellows must have:
Earned a doctoral degree (PhD, MD) at accredited institutions.
Individuals with doctoral degrees in Clinical Chemistry, Biochemistry, Medicine, Molecular Biology, Toxicology, Pharmacology, Physiology, Genetics, Chemistry, and other doctoral degrees in life sciences are strongly encouraged to apply.
Applicants possessing an M.D. degree must be diplomates of the American Board of Pathology in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology or have met the requirements to take the Board examination.
Satisfactorily completed a minimum of 30 semester hours (or equivalent) of undergraduate and/or graduate level biochemistry, chemistry, or other courses taken at institutions acceptable to the Board that meet the combined criteria established by each of the ABCC certification disciplines as shown in Table 1 on the ABCC website.
Applicants with education obtained at institutions outside the U.S. or Canada must, at their expense, have their credentials evaluated by the International Education Research Foundation, Inc., or acceptable equivalent.
Applicants should have strong interests in laboratory medicine and research.
The application packet must include:
Letter of interest
Curriculum vitae
Transcripts (undergraduate and graduate)
Three letters of recommendation
Please submit your application to:
Yusheng Zhu, PhD, DABCC (CC, TC, MB), FADLM
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Mail Code H160
Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
500 University Drive, HG118, PO Box 850
Hershey, PA 17033
Phone: 717-531-5123
Fax: 717-531-3803
E-mail: yzhu@pennstatehealth.psu.edu
