The three-year gastroenterology fellowship program emphasizes and offers extensive clinical training in gastroenterology and hepatology. The program encompasses inpatient general gastroenterology rotations, outpatient clinics, subspecialty consultation services, and wide variety of endoscopic procedures.
At our home institution, Franciscan Health Olympia Fields, fellows rotate through inpatient teaching service, outpatient endoscopy, and half-day general gastroenterology continuity clinic. Our fellows also participate in research activities and quality improvement projects to supplement their clinical training.
The inpatient teaching service will expose the fellow to a wide variety of gastrointestinal problems including acute inflammatory bowel disease processes and major gastrointestinal hemorrhages. Fellows will evaluate all new consults at Franciscan Health Olympia Fields and be assigned to a continuity clinic one-half day per week. They will present new consults to the attending within 24 hours for routine consults and as soon as possible for emergencies. Fellows will evaluate each patient and make initial recommendations regarding diagnostic tests and treatments. They will make arrangements for studies such as endoscopy, motility tests, biopsies, etc. They will review the appropriateness of the procedure with the attending before making final scheduling plans. Emergency procedures (such as for gastrointestinal bleeding) are performed by the fellow with the attending. Non-emergent procedures are performed during daytime hours in the GI lab by the fellow under direct supervision of the attending. Procedure-based evaluation is performed twice per year by a supervising attending. Daily attending supervision is available seven days per week and all night. Fellows are evaluated throughout the rotation and are expected to participate in the evaluation of other fellows as well.
Unique to our program are the rotations at our affiliate institutions. Fellows supplement their Franciscan experience with rotations at Rush University Medical Center, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Loyola University Medical Center, and University of Chicago Medical Center.
By the end of the three years, fellows will complete 18 months of general gastroenterology service, 5 months of hepatology service, and elective rotations in inflammatory bowel disease, motility, pathology, research, etc. The fellowship experience prepares fellows to evaluate and manage acute and chronic gastrointestinal illnesses that will be encountered in their future practice.
At our home institution, Franciscan Health Olympia Fields, fellows rotate through inpatient teaching service, outpatient endoscopy, and half-day general gastroenterology continuity clinic. Our fellows also participate in research activities and quality improvement projects to supplement their clinical training.
The inpatient teaching service will expose the fellow to a wide variety of gastrointestinal problems including acute inflammatory bowel disease processes and major gastrointestinal hemorrhages. Fellows will evaluate all new consults at Franciscan Health Olympia Fields and be assigned to a continuity clinic one-half day per week. They will present new consults to the attending within 24 hours for routine consults and as soon as possible for emergencies. Fellows will evaluate each patient and make initial recommendations regarding diagnostic tests and treatments. They will make arrangements for studies such as endoscopy, motility tests, biopsies, etc. They will review the appropriateness of the procedure with the attending before making final scheduling plans. Emergency procedures (such as for gastrointestinal bleeding) are performed by the fellow with the attending. Non-emergent procedures are performed during daytime hours in the GI lab by the fellow under direct supervision of the attending. Procedure-based evaluation is performed twice per year by a supervising attending. Daily attending supervision is available seven days per week and all night. Fellows are evaluated throughout the rotation and are expected to participate in the evaluation of other fellows as well.
Unique to our program are the rotations at our affiliate institutions. Fellows supplement their Franciscan experience with rotations at Rush University Medical Center, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Loyola University Medical Center, and University of Chicago Medical Center.
By the end of the three years, fellows will complete 18 months of general gastroenterology service, 5 months of hepatology service, and elective rotations in inflammatory bowel disease, motility, pathology, research, etc. The fellowship experience prepares fellows to evaluate and manage acute and chronic gastrointestinal illnesses that will be encountered in their future practice.
