Gastroenterology/Hepatology Fellowship Program

Residency Information

The three-year Gastroenterology/Hepatology Fellowship Program at the UMKC School of Medicine was established in 1986. There are three fellowship positions, one in each of the three levels.
Participating Hospitals
The following three primary hospitals participate in the gastroenterology training programs:

Truman Medical Center Hospital Hill provides a broad array of acute and outpatient services to a diverse patient population.

Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City, a 629-bed tertiary care referral center serving a six-state region, has established some of the finest specialized clinical services and support programs in the area.

Children's Mercy Hospital, provides the highest level of medical care and services, tailored to meet the intricate needs of pediatric patients from birth to age 18.

Curriculum
Training experiences are supplemented with weekly conferences covering a broad spectrum of topics. Journal Club is held weekly as are case, pathology, GI-surgery-radiology, physiology and research conferences. An active visiting professor program allows fellows to meet with national and international experts in the field.

Year 1: Most training takes place at Truman Medical Center Hospital Hill with 50 to 100 new consults and more than 200 endoscopies performed monthly. Rotations at Saint Luke's Hospital are scheduled at the end of the first year and in the second and third years of training, and provide experience in community medicine. First year fellows become proficient at diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopic and hepatologic procedures including upper endoscopy, esophageal dilatation, sclerotherapy, esophageal band ligation, endoscopic hemostasis, colonoscopy, polypectomy, percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy and liver biopsy.

Years 2-3: Second- and third-year fellows continue to expand their experience in the basic procedures and also perform esophageal manometry, ambulatory pH testing, anorectal manometry and ERCP. Required rotations include pediatric gastroenterology at Children's Mercy Hospital, nutrition, hepatology/liver transplantation, GI-radiology, GI-surgery, research, pathology and biliary endoscopy.

Research

Both laboratory-based and clinical research opportunities are available and strongly encouraged.

At the present time several protocols are being conducted in the treatment of hepatitis C, the study of lipid and glucose metabolism in those with hepatitis C and the study of antibiotics in the prevention of PEG infection. Additional protocols are comparing treatment regimens for GERD and studying gastrointestinal transit in those mechanically ventilated.

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Gastroenterology/Hepatology Fellowship

About University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
The UMKC School of Medicine offers 32 ACGME-sponsored residency and subspecialty residency programs. The School also offers an innovative six-year baccalaureate/doctor of medicine degree program that provides progressively increasing clinical experience beginning in year one. Students enter the medical school directly out of high school. The School of Medicine and its programs include more than 600 medical students, 547 full-time and 670 volunteer faculty, and 375 residents and fellows.

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