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Gastroenterology |
| Goal & Educational Purpose |
Residents should gain
knowledge of the diagnosis and management of GI processes and learn the GI
skills essential to the practice of general internal medicine; should
learn to interact with GI consultants. |
| Objectives |
Diagnosis, assessment
and management of GI processes to include:
- abdominal pain
- acute and
chronic pancreatitis
- peptic ulcer
disease
- gastritis
- GI bleeding,
upper and lower, variceal
- esophageal
diseases
- inflammatory
bowel diseases
- irritable bowel
syndrome
- hepatitis,
obstructive liver disease, infiltrative liver diseases, cirrhosis,
ascites
- hepatic failure
and indications for liver transplantation
- GI malignancies
particularly esophageal, gastric and colon
- screening for
lower GI malignancies
- the liver and
drugs
- diarrhea
- nausea and
vomiting
|
|
Educational Content |
- management of
portal hypertension, liver failure
- abdominal
paracenteses
- serology of
liver disease
- flexible
sigmoidoscopy
- indications for
liver biopsy, endoscopies, radiologic studies
- one month
rotation assigned with attending
- attend 8:00 GI
conference
- attend 7:00 GI
pathology conference
- attend GI clinic
- GI Journal Club
1x/month
- see patients in
office with attending
- assist and
participate in flexible sigmoidoscopies
- schedule
medicine clinic flexible sigmoidoscopies with appropriate attendings
- record all GI
procedures by dictated operative note and ABIM procedure book
|
| Evaluation |
- resident
evaluation of rotation and attending
- attending
evaluation of resident
- In-Training
examination
- certifying
examination
- feedback from
semi-annual reviews
- feedback from
resident’s meetings
- procedure logs
|
| Reading List |
- MKSAP – GI
section
- GI section of
standard medicine textbook
- appropriate
sections of GI specialty text
-
UpToDate®
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