Gastroenterology Fellowship

 

Gastroenterology and Hepatology Inpatient Service

The gastroenterology fellow on inpatient service will be responsible for managing gastroenterology and hepatology related consults. Fellows are responsible to evaluate and formulate management plans, triage care, coordinate care, and perform inpatient endoscopic procedures. Fellows are responsible for involving residents and medical students rotating through the service. Patient care plans are presented to the attending physician and procedures are staffed by the attending physician.

Gastroenterology and Hepatology Outpatient Service

The gastroenterology fellow in the outpatient Gastroenterology and Hepatology clinic is responsible for assessing, treating, and coordinating care for outpatients with gastrointestinal and liver related problems. Fellows will be responsible for follow up management of patients seen in the clinic. Fellows also have a continuity clinic each week throughout the duration of their fellowship, where they follow patients with gastrointestinal and liver related diseases. Fellows rotate in a separate Hepatology clinic dedicated for liver disease patients. Fellows are supervised by the attending physician.

Endoscopy

The gastroenterology fellow actively participates in general endoscopic procedures under direct faculty supervision. In addition, fellows receive exposure to advanced diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, including ERCP and endoscopic ultrasound.

Radiology and Pathology

Fellows rotate with radiology and pathology to learn how to identify gastrointestinal radiological findings and gastrointestinal related pathological findings, respectively.

Reflux Center

Fellows rotate in the Heartburn and Acid Reflux Center (HARC) in Round Rock working closely with surgical team focused on reflux management.

BUMC Transplant Hepatology

The Transplant Hepatology rotation is a required 1-month away-rotation designed to provide gastroenterology fellows with advanced exposure to a variety of hepatology cases in the Dallas Metropolitan area, in partnership with Baylor University Medical Center. The rotation site is funded by the BSW-Round Rock institution, including housing and meal card expenses.

Gastroenterology fellows are exposed to the following procedures during their training:

Fellows actively participate in preparing for lectures to educate themselves and their peers. A variety of conferences are held each week and include:

All fellows are required to participate in one quality improvement initiatives during their 3-year training. These initiatives often span across several department and work in conjunction with hospital leadership.

Current projects have not been selected for the 2024-2025 AY.

Past projects from GI fellows include:

• Improvement in Inpatient bowel prep for colonoscopy through modified order sets and parameters (2024)
• DAPT x PPI – Co-prescription of Proton Pump Inhibitors with Dual Antiplatelet Therapy for bleeding prophylaxis in High-risk patients (2023)

Publications:

• Le, Kim M., Amaning, Judith (2^nd Authors). Elevated Liver Enzymes with Positive Hepatitis B Serology After Intravenous Immunoglobulin Treatment of Guillain-Barré Syndrome. December 2023.
• Mohajir, Wasay (3^rd Author). Obesity Measured via Body Mass Index May Be Associated with Increased Incidence but Not Worse Outcomes of Immune-Mediated Diarrhea and Colitis. April 2023.
• Mohajir, Wasay (2^nd Author). Diarrhea and colitis related to immune checkpoint inhibitor and BRAF/MEK inhibitor therapy. February 2023.
• Le, Kim M., Rahimi, Erik. Infiltration of the Biliary Tract with Cytomegalovirus. 2022.