Cancer Center

How to Apply

Our three-year fellowship seeks physicians who will have completed two to three years of training in an accredited residency program in order to sit for the American Board of Pediatrics certifying examination. Our fellowship program participates in the ERAS universal application process. Please visit their Web site at www.aamc.org/eras for an application and information about our program.

The following information should be uploaded into this program:

  1. Completed application
  2. At least three letters of reference
  3. Dean's letter and medical school transcript
  4. Curriculum Vitae
  5. A personal statement describing career goals and reasons for continuing training in pediatric hematology/oncology
  6. Parts 1, 2 and 3 of the USMLE taken within the seven year time frame as required by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or equivalent scores
  7. If a graduate of a medical school outside the United States, Canada or Puerto Rico, valid ECFMG certificate or one that does not expire prior to the start of the fellowship
  8. If not a citizen of the United States or permanent resident, copy of current, appropriate visa

National resident matching program (NRMP)

The Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Fellowship program participates in the National Resident Matching Program (http://www.nrmp.org).

Contact person

John Simpkins MBA, CRA
Administrative Director, Research
Center for Childhood Cancer Research and Division of Oncology                                                                                                                                                                                                      The Children¹s Hospital of Philadelphia Colket Translational Research Building
3501 Civic Center Blvd - #3059
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104

267-426-0948 Telephone
267-426-0685 Fax
simpkinsj@email.chop.edu

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