Administrative Fellowship Program Overview

The Administrative Fellowship is a one to two-year, full-time salaried program which offers on-the-job training in the skills and responsibilities required of an administrator in a major academic health science center. The fellow is paid an annual stipend equal to that of medical residents. In addition, the fellow receives the full fringe benefits available to employees.

NYU Langone Medical Center is one of the nation’s premier healthcare resources, an academic medical center whose threefold mission is to provide the highest quality biomedical research, patient care, and medical education. It includes the NYU School of Medicine, Tisch Hospital, the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine, NYU Clinical Cancer Center and the Skirball Institute for Biomolecular Research. As of January 2006, NYU Hospitals Center now includes the Hospital for Joint Diseases as its Center for Musculoskeletal Care.

In such an environment, the administrator’s functions are numerous, varied, and important. He or she is involved in policy making and implementation; problem solving; financial decisions; and a host of supervisory, coordinating, and communication roles.

NYU Langone Medical Center’s Administrative Fellowship Program is in some ways akin to physician training: the Fellow learns the job by assuming increasing levels of responsibility, while being supervised by senior-level administrators. In effect, the Fellow becomes an entry-level administrator - one who is involved in a participatory fashion with an unusually broad range of issues, personnel, and procedures.

The opportunity offered by this program provides a qualified graduate student experience that is invaluable to his or her career growth. The Fellow is placed at the very center of the Medical Center’s major administrative programs, in contact with the people and ideas essential to professional development.