Main Fellowship Affiliation

Southern Regional AHEC

Location

Fayetteville, NC

Main Contact Name

Lenny Salzberg, M.D.

Main Contact Phone

910-678-7262

Main Contact Email

Lenny.Salzberg@sr-ahec.org

Program History

The first SR-AHEC Diabetes and Obesity Medicine Fellowship Graduate August 2016

Program Curriculum

Direct patient care:

• Work in the outpatient setting seeing complex patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes (referral population). Graduated independence. 

• Work in the weight loss clinic

• Longitudinal experience with podiatry, maternal fetal, pediatric endocrinology, ophthalmology (tailored)

• Consult on the inpatient service for DKA, HONC, complicated medical patients with diabetes

• Work in a free clinic seeing only patients with diabetes

Didactics:

• 72 CDs (3 years, 24 per year) of Diabetes Insight (roughly 200 hours) required

• Weekly meeting with Fellowship Director to review questions

Teaching:

• Present didactics for FM residents (2 programs), IM residents, EM residents, regional CME program for physicians and pharmacists, CME for hospitalists

Service:

• Observe diabetes camp at beginning of fellowship

• Work in diabetes camp at conclusion of fellowship

• See patients in free clinic every second week

Projects:

• Work on a scholarly project (e.g. ACT study) or administrative project (e.g. starting DPP) and present results (at minimum a poster presentation)

Conferences:

• Attend a national ADA Diabetes conference, submit for presentation

Application process/dates

Applications are due no later than March 31, 2023. Please send a letter of interest and three letters of recommendation to Dr. Lenny Salzberg, Diabetes and Obesity Medicine Fellowship Director. Letters can be sent electronically to Lenny.Salzberg@sr-ahec.org or by mail to Lenny Salzberg, M.D., Southern Regional AHEC, 1601 Owen Drive, Fayetteville, NC 28304. Candidates will be notified of the offer for an on-site interview no later than April 15, 2021.

Southern Regional AHEC does not sponsor visas.