Our curriculum consists primarily of hands-on, daily education performing advanced endoscopic procedures in a robust clinical environment.

We are home to one of the largest transplant centers in the U.S. and one of the original National Cancer Institute-designated cancer centers. We are the tertiary care center for Wisconsin and the upper Midwest, and the primary GI physicians for the city of Madison.

That means you'll experience everything from the most complex tertiary referrals to the most basic cases of stone disease and large polyp resection.

Didactics

You are required to give a base set of lectures throughout the year to general gastroenterology fellows, physician assistant students, and internal medicine residents on the GI service. You'll identify endoscopic topics for the lectures and develop the talks yourself.

You'll also participate in these weekly conferences:

• Gastroenterology grand rounds
• Pancreas mass conference
• Liver tumor conference
• Pancreas cyst/pancreas cancer prevention clinic

Clinical Schedule

• 90 percent of your time is spent performing all of the University of Wisconsin’s advanced endoscopic procedures with an attending physician. You have one-half day per week to perform general endoscopic procedures by yourself.
• You'll lead the interventional endoscopy service with an advanced endoscopy attending and general gastroenterology fellow.
• For three weeks per year, you'll staff the general gastroenterology service as the attending physician.

Scholarly Activity

Research

We teach advanced fellows how to conduct endoscopic research, design studies, and complete manuscripts for publication. It's important that you actually produce relevant endoscopic research and publish papers during your time in the program.

You can develop, design, and conduct research on a topic of your own that aligns with your interests. You're also able to join multiple ongoing endoscopic research projects. We expect you to be involved with studies that lead to published abstracts, presentation at national meetings, and completion of submitted/published abstracts and manuscripts.

Teaching

As a fellow, your teaching opportunities include:

• Daily teaching of gastroenterology fellow as the leader of the interventional endoscopy service
• Teaching gastroenterology fellows, internal medicine residents and medical students while staffing the general gastroenterology service
• Teaching the gastroenterology endoscopic skills as the staff attending

The Department of Medicine's Fellow Medical Education (FAME) Training Track trains fellows to become effective clinician-teachers and scholars.

Additional Opportunities

• The Department of Medicine’s QI Curriculum for Fellowship teaches fellows how to apply quality improvement knowledge and skills directly to clinical practice.