Curriculum/rotations
The following components form the basis of the training program in Gastroenterology and Hepatology. In all aspects of the curriculum, the foundational training is provided longitudinally 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
Fellows rotate through each of the ambulatory subspeciality clincs: comprehensive GI clinic, urgent clinic, and post-hospital clinic. The consult service is responsible for seeing all inpatient consults for the wide breadth of patient with GI/liver disorders, in addition to providing endoscopy services for all inpatients.
Fellows have dedicated time with motility faculty to learn the wide range of motility testing and are assigned faculty mentors to aid in the development of endoscopic skills.
Additionally, fellows gain extensive exposure to outpatient endoscopy and management of inpatient consultative services at the nearby Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center, in White River Junction, Vermont.
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.
Rotations
- Academic/Research
- Ambulatory Care
- Clinic
- Consults 1
- Consults 2
- Endoscopy
- Global Health Elective
- Manometry
- Surgery
- VAMC
Conferences/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
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease conference
Tuesday
- Liver tumor clinic
- Pancreas conference
- Veterans Affairs post-clinic case discussion
Wednesday
- Combined gastroenterology, radiology, and surgery conference
- Internal Medicine morbidity and mortality
- Motility conference
Thursday
- Fellow didactic (guideline review)
- Liver pathology conference (monthly for fellows)
- Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center post-clinic case discussion
Friday
- Medicine Grand Rounds
- Gastroenterology journal club