Core Curriculum
The curriculum will include clinical training in the diagnosis and management of inpatients and outpatients with pediatric gastrointestinal, hepatic, and nutritional disorders. There will be exposure to both acute and chronic conditions. In recognition of the importance of outpatient medicine to the practice of pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition, all fellows will spend at least one-two sessions per week for the entire 3-year period in the subspecialty clinics in which both new and continuing care patients are seen.
During the core curriculum an adequate number of routine endoscopic procedures must be performed in order to exceed the minimum standards prescribed by the NASPGN.
Training Through Conferences and Other Nonpatient Care Activities
In addition to experience in patient care, fellows will be extensively involved in other educational experiences, such as weekly pediatric grand rounds, lectures, courses, workshops, and seminars.
The program will provide instruction in the fundamental disciplines related to the digestive system, including embryology, physiology, pharmacology, nutrition, pathology, biochemistry, molecular biology, immunology, and genetics.
Fellows will be encouraged to develop independent learning skills through reading textbooks and relevant scientific journals and attending seminars, postgraduate courses, and annual scientific meetings of the major digestive disease societies.
Fellows will be actively involved in the planning and conduct of a weekly clinical conference that would be either a didactic lecture or fellow case presentations. Journal club will be held once a month. Journal clubs should be used to educate the fellow in the skills of critical reading, detection of biases, application of statistics, validity of conclusions, and related attributes of scientific studies.
Interdisciplinary conferences with staff in pediatric radiology, pediatric pathology, or pediatric surgery will be held weekly on a rotational basis.
The opportunity to learn the essentials of study design, statistics, epidemiology, hypothesis testing, decision and outcomes analysis, and other skills necessary to conduct clinical investigation will be available to all fellows.
- Training in Specific Gastrointestinal Disorders
- Training in Motility & Functional Disorders
- Training in Acid-Peptic Disease
- Training in Congenital Abnormatilities and Short-Bowel Syndrome
- Training in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
- Training in Infectious and Immunologic Diseases of the Gastrointestinal Tract
- Training in Pancreatic Disease
- Training in Hepatobiliary Disorders
- Training in Procedures
- Training in Nutrition
