Fellows spend the majority of their rotaions at Rush University Medical Center and approximately 4 months at Rush Oak Park Hospital, which is a nearby affiliated community hospital.
Clinical rotations (each rotation is a 2-week block):
You’ll help staff general clinics as well as specialty clinics in liver transplant, functional bowel diseases, inflammatory bowel disease and pancreatic diseases.
In state-of-the-art endoscopic labs equipped with the most advanced Olympus equipment, you’ll train in standard and advanced procedures, including the following:
You’ll participate in clinical research in the Section of Gastroenterology and Nutrition, with six months of research time scheduled over the three-year fellowship. You may pursue your own research projects or participate in faculty research, which currently includes the following:
Conferences are a vital part of training and include gastroenterology and internal medicine grand rounds; gastroenterology journal clubs; hepatology journal club; medicine and society conference; liver pathology conferences; endoscopy conference, capsule club; motility conference; safety conference; pancreas/biliary conference; ibd conference; sleisenger and fordtran’s textbook chapter review (weekly).