Curriculum
The following components form the basis of the training program in Gastroenterology and Hepatology. In all aspects of the curriculum, the foundation training is provided during the course of the 3-year fellowship. Fellows are encouraged to seek additional knowledge, skills, and competencies with additional advanced fellowship training in many of these areas:
- Inflammatory bowel disease
- Motility (ambulatory clinic and lab testing)
- Pancreatic disease
- Hepatology
- Advanced endoscopy
Rotations
- Ambulatory clinic: Our fellows rotate through each of our subspeciality clinics, comprehensive GI clinic, urgent clinic, and post-hospital clinic.
- Inpatient consults: Our consult service is responsible for seeing all inpatient consults for the wide breath of patient with GI/liver disorders in additional to providing endoscopy services for all inpatients.
- Motility reading: Our fellows have dedicated time with our motility faculty to learn the wide range of motility testing and how to interrupt this testing.
- Endoscopy: All fellows are assigned faculty mentors in endoscopy to aid in the development of endoscopic skills.
- VA rotation: Our fellows gain extensive exposure to outpatient endoscopy as well as management of inpatient consultative services.
Teaching opportunities
Our fellows have the opportunity to teach Geisel School of Medicine students, visiting students from other medical schools, and medical residents through bedside instruction and formal didactic lectures.
Global health
Our fellows have the opportunity to travel to Rwanda with our faculty who have a long-standing relationship with ministry of health and have aided in the development of a gastroenterology fellowship program in Rwanda.
Conferences and didactics
The Gastroenterology and Hepatology Fellowship offers a robust, multidimensional conference structure that supplements the core educational experience of the clinical and laboratory rotations.
Monday
- 12 to 1 pm: Inflammatory Bowel Disease conference
Tuesday
- 12 to 1 pm: Liver tumor board
- 12 to 1 pm: Pancreas conference
- 4:30 to 5 pm: Veterans Affairs post-clinic case discussion
Wednesday
- 7 to 8 am: combined gastroenterology, radiology, and surgery conference
- 12 to 1 pm: Internal Medicine morbidity and mortality
- 12 to 1 pm: Motility conference
Thursday
- 7 to 8 am: Fellow didactic (guideline review)
- 7 to 8 am: Liver pathology conference (monthly for fellows)
- 11:30 am to 12 pm: Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center post-clinic case discussion
Friday
- 8 to 9 am: Medical Grand Rounds
- 12 to 1 pm: Gastroenterology journal club