Faculty member Erin Reigh, MD is the creator of “Marginal Zone”, an educational cartoon series published each month in Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology. View more of the Marginal Zone on the Annals website.
Reigh, E. “Marginal Zone: Umbrella.” Annals of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology. Vol 131, Issue 1, Page 42-43. July 1, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anai.2023.02.019
The Dartmouth Allergy and Immunology Fellowship program is a fully accredited 2-year program that is designed to prepare internists and pediatricians for the diverse clinical and academic career opportunities in the field of Allergy and Immunology. Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center is a 400-bed tertiary care facility located in Lebanon, New Hampshire, serving patients from all over New England. Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, which includes the Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth Hitchcock, is the teaching hospital of Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, which is the fourth oldest medical school in the United States. Learn more about Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and our residency and fellowship programs.
We offer 2 positions per year for the 2-year program. We accept residents who have completed training in either internal medicine, pediatrics or medicine-pediatrics into our Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) accredited program.
The program provides a particularly strong hands-on clinical experience in all aspects of Allergy and Immunology. The fellow experience is primarily in the outpatient setting, and includes training in inpatient consultation. The schedule also includes elective rotations, allowing the fellow the opportunity to tailor their experiences within the program.
Our program takes pride in our diversity and a collegial and friendly work atmosphere. Our allergy and immunology program is unique in that fellows have the opportunity to apply for combined Allergy/Immunology and Masters in Public Health (MPH)-Preventive Medicine in the Leadership Preventive Medicine Residency (LPMR) program through the prestigious Dartmouth Institute. With this 3-year program, fellows are board eligible in Allergy/Immunology and Preventive Medicine and get an MPH (tuition free), while being paid a fellow salary. The Leadership Preventive Medicine Residency offers fellows skills in quality improvement, leadership and population health where they lead a practicum focused on improving care.
Mission
Our mission is to train future leaders in allergy and immunology. Through our program's mentorship and curriculum, our fellows will acquire expert-level clinical competence in the care of children and adults with routine and complex allergic/immunologic disorders, including competency in patient care, medical knowledge, practice-based learning, systems-based practice, professionalism, communication, and interpersonal skills. Fellows will conduct and publish cutting-edge clinical, translational, and/or basic research studies and fully engage in the practice of life-long scholarship through graduate-level coursework, allergy and immunology didactics, and/or oral/poster presentation of clinical and research topics.
Program aims
- We train Allergy and Immunology fellows to develop competence in providing outpatient and inpatient consultative care such that they can enter clinical practice and continue their professional careers with independence and confidence.
- We teach our fellows to become proficient in the creation of new knowledge through research, medical education, or quality improvement projects with the aim of improving the delivery of health care in whatever setting they choose to practice.
- We teach our fellows to advocate for their patients, the profession, and society.
- We develop resilient, humanistic, patient-centered physicians who provide whole person care to patients.