{"id":2016,"date":"2023-04-17T12:11:37","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T16:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/endo\/?page_id=2016"},"modified":"2026-04-29T15:32:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T19:32:00","slug":"endocrinology-section-and-training-sites","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/endo\/educational-activities\/fellowship\/endocrinology-section-and-training-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"Training Sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/endo\/files\/2023\/04\/boston-medical-center-768x510-1-452x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"212\" class=\"wp-image-2024 alignright\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/endo\/files\/2023\/04\/boston-medical-center-768x510-1-452x300.jpg 452w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/endo\/files\/2023\/04\/boston-medical-center-768x510-1.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Boston Medical Center<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Boston Medical Center (BMC) is a licensed 514 bed hospital located in Boston\u2019s historic South End. BMC is the major teaching hospital of the Boston University\u00a0 Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine with which it shares a campus. Emphasizing community-based and tertiary care as the largest safety-net hospital in the region, the hospital\u2019s mission is to provide consistently excellent and accessible health services to all.\u00a0 Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmc.org\">here <\/a>to visit the BMC hospital website.<\/p>\n<p>The endocrinology outpatient clinic is located on the main hospital campus. Supported by a dedicated administrative staff, medical assistants, nursing staff, clinical pharmacists, nutritionists, diabetes educators and clinicians, the clinic accommodates more than 50,000 patient visits per year. The clinic has ultrasound machines for diagnostic imaging and thyroid nodule and lymph node fine-needle aspiration biopsy and a bone density scanner on site.<\/p>\n<p><em>As part of their clinical training, endocrine fellows do their inpatient rotations and a majority of their outpatient clinics at BMC.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>VA Boston Healthcare<\/strong><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmc.org\/endocrinology\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/endo\/files\/2023\/04\/Va-med-ctr-boston-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"165\" class=\"wp-image-2025 alignleft\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/endo\/files\/2023\/04\/Va-med-ctr-boston-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/endo\/files\/2023\/04\/Va-med-ctr-boston-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/endo\/files\/2023\/04\/Va-med-ctr-boston.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Veterans Health Administration, which is the nation\u2019s largest integrated health care system, provides care for the country\u2019s veteran population. Fellows participate in outpatient general and specialty endocrine clinics at the VA hospitals in Jamaica Plain and West Roxbury. Fellows also rotate in a VA cardiovascular prevention clinic.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.va.gov\/boston-health-care\/\">here<\/a> to visit the VA hospital website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Medical Center Boston Medical Center (BMC) is a licensed 514 bed hospital located in Boston\u2019s historic South End. BMC is the major teaching hospital of the Boston University\u00a0 Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine with which it shares a campus. Emphasizing community-based and tertiary care as the largest safety-net hospital in the region, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18753,"featured_media":0,"parent":53,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/endo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2016"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/endo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/endo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/endo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18753"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/endo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2016"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/endo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2792,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/endo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2016\/revisions\/2792"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/endo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/endo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}