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The goal of our Gastroenterology Fellowship is to recruit and train talented physicians who are committed to a career in academic gastroenterology and hepatology.
Ciarán P. Kelly, MD, Program DirectorThe first year of our fellowship program is devoted to training and experience in clinical gastroenterology and hepatology. An additional six months of clinical training is provided during the course of the following two years of the fellowship. The remaining eighteen months of fellowship are devoted to a mentored program of training tailored to each individual fellow's career goals.
Our faculty encompasses a broad range of clinical and research interests and expertise and will provide one-on-one mentoring for candidates wishing to pursue careers in any of the three majors academic tracks: clinician-educator, clinical investigator or laboratory investigator.
Our Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center is one of the largest on the East Coast. Our internationally-recognized specialists provide multi-disciplinary care and second opinions for both newly-diagnosed and complex cases of IBD. This breadth of faculty and patients allows us to offer and Inflammatory Bowel Disease track. The Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) for the IBD training are in the process of being finalized at CCFA.
The requirements for completion of this track would be undertake in year two and three. They would include at minimum:
Fifty-two weeks of half day IBD clinics
Twenty-six weeks of endoscopy training with an IBD attending
Inpatient IBD service –This would be completed in the third year as a teaching exercise.
One academic meeting in the second and third year with an IBD focus (this would include DDW).
Completion of an academic product, ideally a article but an abstract or review article at minimum.
