Curriculum

Inpatient responsibilities include the care of patients on the pediatric GI service, providing consults to patients on other services and managing high-risk transports from and to other institutions. Additionally, first-year fellows utilize a variety of resources to gain comprehensive knowledge in pediatric gastroenterology such as online journals, general scientific journals and textbooks, attending journal club and other internal conferences, and taking the annual in-service exam in pediatric GI offered by the ABP.

Second & Third Year Curricula

Second and third-year subspecialty residents have one block of inpatient service and one block of clinical elective each year. The second and third years also have liver clinic one month per year. Elective courses include:

• Liver disease
• Motility Clinic

The third-year resident may take this motility elective again if consistent with career plans.

Third year pediatric GI residents who would like additional training in diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy may choose to complete an elective month were they spend 5 days/week performing all scheduled procedures in the endoscopy suite and operating room at UNC Chapel Hill.

After the second year, the fellow will show competency in the skills learned the first year, and after the third year mastery of skills.

Outpatient Rotations

Liver Disease Clinic

Sub-specialty residents of all levels are required to have one month of outpatient liver disease clinic per year, supervised by a hepatologist. Additionally, there are rotations available at Duke University to gain additional exposure to the liver transplant program.