Fellowship in Rheumatology

Quexst Healthcare offers a 6 months duration fellowship in Rheumatology. It's a blended learning opportunity, where the fellow is expected to learn from expert mentors for only 2 weeks in person. Rest of the learning happens on interactive learning methods , making use of technology.  The learning points elaborate more on methods of learning.

Rheumatology is a practice area where the doctor has to give support to a patient through the patient’s life and ensure that the disease does not worsen. A doctor has a role to educating the family of patients as Rheumatology is a lifelong ailment and requires lifestyle modification.  

It is important to understand the patients in early stages and with many years of suffering to experience how the disease conditions progress.

The certificate issued on successful completion of the course is not a registrable qualification.

• Shrikant Wagh (Pune)
• Sarvajeet Pal (Hyderabad)
• Ashit Syngle (Chandigarh)

This fellowship has 4 learning components:

1. Recorded lectures: these are made available on our learning platform. These you can study multiple times and any time , any place. These are intended to give you in-depth knowledge of all diseases that come under the scope of Rheumatology , including pediatric Rheumatology. Your knowledge gain gets evaluated through MCQ based tests on the same online learning platform.  This learning content is available to you through the 6 month fellowship period.
2. Observership of 2 weeks – this is in person, where you will work with a mentor to see live cases. We can schedule it as per your convenience within the fellowship period.
3. Learning material in Print copy will be sent to you for easy reference
4. Case studies: you will be sent 12 cases, one-by-one. To study, analyse, diagnose , make treatment plan and submit. Your mentor / expert faculty will give you feedback and guidance

Our experts work in following learning areas, however, you will be exposed to all these learning points through various methods mentioned above.
• Rheumatoid Arthritis
• Osteoarthritis, Spinal Pain
• Spondarthritis
• Regional Pain
• Crystal deposition & Osteoporosis
• Pharmacotherapy
• Fibromyalgia, Infective Arthritis, Systemic diseases
• Inflammatory Connective Tissue Diseases
• Gout

The steps to be followed are updated below:

1. Send us copies of your Medical Council Registration, degrees, and your CV
2. Send a statement of purpose giving details of your learning objectives in relation to your experience level.
3. Your request with documents provided by you will be sent for eligibility confirmation.
4. On receiving confirmation, the Proforma Invoice along with fees and payment method details will be sent to you.   
5. On receipt of fees payment, you will receive a call from operations team for further documentation and fellowship joining requirement & guidelines.
6. Please follow the same and be in touch with our Operations team for any problems.

1. This program has 4 learning components. The recorded lectures ending with MCQ based exam, the rating by mentor for cases and the recommendation by mentor for oberservership are critical study and evaluation areas. The Fellowship certificate will be awarded taking into consideration successful completion of these 3 learning areas and time taken to complete them. The fellow must complete all 3 within 6 months from the date of joining.
2. As the Clinical Rotation are conducted in private hospitals, to protect the interest of the patients and as per medical ethics, the student will only observe the patients and surgeries. The intention is to give the student opportunity to learn through hands-on experience, however, the decision to provide wash-up or scrub opportunity to the student will be taken by the mentor during the rotation period depending on the skills and knowledge of the student.
3. During the 2 weeks observership, student is expected to be present for minimum 10 hours for 6 days a week.
4. Medical Council registration is required.
5. The cost of medical council registration will be borne by the student. The rotation duration is 2 weeks. The clinical rotation  period is without a break. The schedule for the same needs to confirmed with the mentor and then adhered to. The cost of stay, travel & food during the 2 weeks observership is not included in the fee.
6. Patient flow with any mentor and at different time of the year can not be predicted and cannot be committed to.
7. A student is expected to travel to learn , if required where ever the mentor is conducting a case. The student could be asked to be present to assist / observe a case at any time of the day.
8. The registration is valid for 6 months. The student must join the rotation within 6 months of registration date.
9. The Initial Instalment of fees paid by the student is non-refundable under all conditions. In case of cancellation of rotation by the mentor or teaching hospital, the same will be re-scheduled & no refund will be given.
10. The scheduled dates for the observership can be modified only once, minimum one month before the joining date. The modification request must be sent on fsupport@quexst.com in writing. the new scheduled date must be within 6 months of date of registration.