PGY 4 : 12 months of Clinical Gastroenterology

PGY5 : 4 months of Research, 8 months Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

PGY 6: Electives 5 months. Clinical Gastroenterology 3 months. Clinical Hepatology 4 months.

BarrettÕs Esophagus, and Ablation Therapy for early esophageal cancer including Barrx, and PDT, cryotherapy, and endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR).

Clinical studies in Acute pancreatitis and Chronic pancreatitis

Clinical studies involving the application of Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS)

High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU)

Endoscopy training simulators

New endoscopic technology and developmental endoscopy

Participation in Cancer Chemotherapy Clinical trials

Weekly clinical grand rounds. Weekly didactic Hematology/Oncology Conferences (2 hours) Weekly multidisciplinary tumor boards and Radiation oncology conference.
The program has both clinical and research strengths. The diversity of the patient population in the program's hospitals provides an additional clinical experience which covers a broad spectrum of diseases encountered in inner city, medically underserved and immigrant populations together with the usual general GI and malignant disorders seen in adult and elderly Americans. Extensive ambulatory care training is provided in the outpatient clinics which include general gastroenterology, general hepatolology, and specialized clinics for pancreaticobiliary disease and IBD.

Each institution has a state of the art endoscopy unit staffed by specially trained endoscopy nurses. There is an advanced endoscopy unit and Digestive Disease center that recently opened at the State University Hospital.

This clinical program is augmented with weekly case conferences in gastroenterology and hepatology, GI grand Rounds, multidiscipline conferences with radiology, surgery, oncology and pathology. Histology reviews of all cases are held regularly with a member of the Department of Pathology.

The fellows are encouraged to participate in on going clinical studies with a faculty mentor.

Because of the large number of patients seen at the program's institutions several clinical studies can be completed within the three year period of fellowship.

The program is also designed to provide an opportunity to work in the laboratory with a member of the faculty (M.D. or Ph.D.) to learn fundamental techniques and develop an interest in biomedical research.

NRMP

Time frame for interviews - February of year preceeding start of fellowship