Many medical specialties do fellowships to further sub-specialize their training often leading to increased compensation packages.  Sometimes there is just an extra sense of satisfaction becoming an expert leader in a niche field.  Did you know that Family Medicine can sub-specialize too?

Here’s a list of fellowships open to Family Medicine physicians:

• Addiction Medicine
• Adolescent Medicine
• Behavioral Medicine
• Community Medicine
• Dermatology
• Emergency Medicine
• Faculty Development
• Geriatrics
• Health Policy
• HIV / AIDS
• Hospice and Palliative Care
• Hospitalist
• Integrative Medicine
• Intensive Care
• International
• Medical Communications
• Medical Humanities
• Neuromuscular
• Obstetrics
• Preventive Medicine
• Radiology Utilization Management
• Reproductive Health & Advocacy
• Research
• Rural Medicine
• Sports Medicine
• Substance Abuse
• Urgent Care
• Women’s Health

Pretty long, eh?

I thought Medical Communications and Medical Humanities were pretty interesting.  Medical communications acknowledges that social media, blogging, and the like are an important part in Health and Patient Education.  It also trains you in medical writing and editing of top journals in primary care.  Medical Humanities touches upon the arts in medicine such as a way to heal through art therapy and to redesign medical spaces or applications.  Both of these incorporate a significant amount of time to learning, teaching, and keeping up with your clinical skills

The American Academy of Family Physicians keeps a website of current fellowship opportunities.  For the complete list with ability to search by topic, click on the link below.

https://nf.aafp.org/FellowshipDirectory/search

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