Dear Fellowship Applicant,

Welcome to NYU Grossman Long Island School of Medicine’s Oncology and Hematology Fellowship! We are a premier three-year Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)–accredited training program that seeks to develop a diverse cadre of physicians who are adept at the prevention, screening, diagnosis, and treatment of a broad range of solid and liquid cancers, as well as noncancerous classical hematologic disorders.

As you embark on your journey to fellowship subspecialty training, I want to take the opportunity to provide a few highlights of our program. At present we have nine fellows in total (three per year), all of whom are eligible to become board-certified in both medical oncology and hematology. Though we share some didactic elements with our colleagues in the Manhattan campus at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, such as tumor boards, we are an independent program situated in Mineola, New York, a beautiful suburb of Nassau County, and are under the academic auspices of NYU Grossman Long Island School of Medicine, a three-year tuition-free medical school founded in 2019.

We pride ourselves on a consistently high board passage rate, and moreover that our fellows are well prepared to graduate to positions in both academic and community settings. Our faculty are highly dedicated to supporting our fellows, including coaching them toward their clinical and academic pursuits. We offer a rigorous clinical experience that emphasizes devoting time specifically to learning subspeciality practice in oncology and hematology. By front-loading the hospital clinical experience in the first year, our fellows become confident in managing complex inpatient cases before moving on entirely to the outpatient setting in their second and third year where they continue their outpatient clinical experiences and work toward presenting and publishing their independent research projects.

We seek to continually improve our program and bring innovations that go beyond the minimum requirements. In addition to providing research mentorship and resources for education and conference travel, we have developed longitudinal curricula on clinical trials development and oversight, as well as transition to practice. Michael Shusterman, MD, our associate program director, and I are actively involved in national societies and networking with other fellowship programs to assure best practices in medical education and subspecialty training. We have an open-door policy when it comes to fellows concerns and value their feedback. We regularly meet with our fellows to provide support for any obstacles they may encounter. In addition we emphasize wellness and coordinate activities outside of the clinical setting to promote team building.

It is a wonderful time to be in oncology and hematology as treatment paradigms and technological advances lead to improvements in patient care. We hope you will choose to train with us as we provide the necessary skills to navigate our increasingly complex and fascinating field.