Curriculum

GI clinical primary teaching conference for the division. It is attended by attending staff, gastroenterology fellows, rotating residents, and students. Presenters include outside speakers (regional and national), in-house faculty, and fellows. Rotating residents present cases once during their rotation. The format for this conference varies from didactic topic discussions, research, and case presentations.

The program director, Dr. Mitchell Cappell, meets with all the house officers rotating on the GI service and some of the GI fellows for one or two clinical GI conferences per week.

Each Friday, fellows, rotating residents and medical students meet with Drs. Laith Jamil, Mitchell Cappell, and Mike Duffy to review current cases in the hospital. Case presentations are followed by a discussion of a pertinent clinical topic. Emphasis is placed on clinical decision-making and differential diagnosis.

The entire division meets monthly during which current articles from the medical literature are reviewed. The articles for review are distributed in advance of the conference. Each fellow presents one article and one attending is assigned to present at each conference.

Once each month, attending pathologists from the Pathology Department conducts a review of histology slides from cases selected by the fellows. Fellows, selected attendings, and rotating residents attend.