Fellowship Program Information

The goal of the Medical Oncology Program is to provide outstanding training in multidisciplinary clinical cancer medicine and an opportunity to develop a clinical, translational or basic research focus to prepare for a career in academic medicine. Roswell Park intends to prepare our trainees today to be the leaders in oncology for tomorrow.

The Department of Medicine at Roswell Park and the Buffalo Veterans Administration Hospital, in concert with the State University of New York at Buffalo, offer a total of 12 fellowships in medical oncology or hematology/oncology. Medical Oncology fellowships are two or three years in length, and hematology/oncology fellowships are three or four years in length.

The three-year Medical Oncology program is aimed at providing the optimal training experience to qualify fellows for the subspecialty exam in medical oncology given by the American Board of Internal Medicine and to provide training for an academic career in Medical Oncology. The first of three years is devoted to clinical subspecialty training. The latter two years are largely dedicated to clinical investigation or laboratory research under faculty guidance. All fellows are assigned a research mentor in addition to the oversight by the Research Fellowship co-coordinator. The program includes weekly formal sessions on evidence based oncology data including literature review, clinical trial design and translational research.