Fellows supplement their core rotations in GI consult and endoscopy with various elective rotations:

* Children's National Medical Center Rotation
* Georgetown University Liver Transplantation

* Radiology Rotation
* Pathology Rotation
* Manometry

Throughout the fellowship, trainees are actively involved in the teaching activities of the GI service. This includes participation in a daily didactic presentation and interaction with the house staff assigned to the GI consult service and general medical wards.

Evaluation and Promotion

All full-time gastroenterology and hepatology faculty members formally evaluate GI fellows twice a year, in December and June. The evaluation provides fellows with timely and constructive feedback. The program director provides each fellow with a copy of the evaluation form and also electronically submits the annual required evaluation to the American Board of Internal Medicine. The evaluations are kept confidential on file in the program directors office. F ellows can review their file and request copies of their evaluation forms at any time. Promotion from year-to-year is based on the semi-annual written evaluations.

Conferences

Clinical training is supplemented by regularly scheduled conferences including:

* Weekly GI grand rounds
* Weekly Joint Clinical Case Conference
* Weekly Hepatology Conference
* Weekly Medical Grand Rounds
* Every Other Month Joint Medical-Surgical Conference
* Monthly Washington City-Wide GI Conference

The conferences are a key component of the training program; they support the in-depth discussion of particular cases, the exchange of ideas among professionals involved in the treatment of digestive disorders, and the review of current literature.

Research

All fellows are required to participate in research during their training. This experience may be conducted either in joint collaboration with the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., or along with faculty from the Section of Gastroenterology.

The Office of Graduate Medical Education offers funding to support the presentation of research at conferences or meetings.

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This information is reposted with thanks to Washington Hospital Center.

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