50 Staniford Street, 9th floor
Boston, MA 02114
The Massachusetts General Hospital General Medicine Fellowship site is located in downtown Boston within walking distance of the Charles River and public transportation. The General Medicine Division is based in 50 Staniford Street, one block from the main hospital campus.
Research in general medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital is predominantly conducted in the Medical Practices Evaluation Center (MPEC). Research groups in MPEC include the Clinical Epidemiology Unit (Daniel Singer, Chief), the Health Policy Research and Development Unit (David Blumenthal, Chief), the Health Decisions Sciences Unit (Albert Mulley, Chief), the General Medicine Unit (Michael Barry, Chief), the Tobacco Research and Treatment Center (Nancy Rigotti, Chief), and the Epidemiology and Outcomes Research Group in the Partners AIDS Research Center (Kenneth Freedberg, Chief).
Fellows will generally pursue research projects led by MPEC faculty. A few examples from recent Fellows' research include:
- Optimizing stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation
- Assessing and improving quality of care in depression, diabetes, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, and cancer screening
- Epidemiology of the metabolic syndrome and of vascular complications in diabetes
- Behavioral, policy, and pharmacologic interventions to improve smoking cessation
- Improving use of antibiotics in upper respiratory infections
- Developing symptom and health-related quality of life measures for upper respiratory infections
- Optimizing disease management in type II diabetes, with a particular emphasis on informatics-based tools and an understanding of patient, physician, and system barriers to optimal care
- Assessing the impact of exercise on cardiovascular disease, and assessing interventions to improve exercise patterns
- Epidemiologic and decision analytic approaches to improve screening for and treatment of HIV