The Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Indiana University offers a three-year fellowship training program. At least 18 months are devoted to clinical training during which fellows will receive extensive training in general GI, hepatology, GI endoscopy (EGD, Colonoscopy, interventional endoscopy and diagnostic ERCP) as well as GI motility and function studies, with electives in endoscopic ultrasound, advanced GI radiology pediatric gastroenterology or pathology. For the clinical track, fellows are required to conduct faculty-mentored research for 3-6 months depending on the project chosen. Four-year clinical investigator fellowship track is available for suitable fellows who are competitive with prior research pursuits. In this case the curriculum is structured to include at least 18 months of clinical research over a period of two years.

Clinical training is carried out in the three teaching hospitals on campus: University Hospital (a tertiary and quaternary referral center for the state and surrounding region), Wishard Memorial Hospital (a community-based hospital) and the Richard Roudebush Veterans' Affairs Hospital. The hospitals are within walking distance of each other on campus, and the fellows spend about one third of their time in each setting.

The continuity clinic is provided at either the Wishard Memorial Hospital or the VA Medical center to ensure that the fellows get the appropriate gender, age and pathology-based exposure to a variety of common gastrointestinal disorders. The fellows participate in outpatient clinics for inflammatory bowel disease, pancreaticobiliary disease, and liver diseases (including pre- and post-liver transplant clinics).

The educational curriculum includes at least 5 sessions per week encompassing GI Grand Rounds, multi-disciplinary conferences, GI clinical case conference, journal club, path conference, clinical guidelines and a GI curriculum board review conference. GI fellows will attend national conferences (one per year) and are also encouraged to participate in a board-review course in gastroenterology.

The fellowship program is enriched by an active GI and liver research program of the faculty, including bench research on alcoholic liver disease and the genetics of alcoholism, expression of liver specific genes, studies on biliary epithelial biology, and clinical pharmacology related to the liver and GI tract. Clinical research includes translational research on non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, and drug and xenobiotic hepatotoxicities, and clinical studies on pancreatic-biliary manometry, endoscopic ultrasound, colorectal neoplasms, alcoholic and hepatitis C-related liver diseases, and inflammatory bowel disease.

We are expecting to support 3-4 fellowship positions per year. Our program does not support privately sponsored positions. Our candidates will be selected through the Electronic Residency Application Service (www. aamc.org/eras) and all our positions are offered through the National Residency Matching Program (www.nrmp.org). The fellowship interviews usually take place in March although it is expected that the date will be moved to November-December in line with initiatives at national level to shift towards interviewing later in the residency program (i.e. third year as opposed to second year residents).

Our center sponsors J1 visas and, on a case by case basis, we will extend H1-B visas if already initiated by other sponsors. Our institution is an equal based opportunity employer and minorities and under-represented groups are encouraged to apply. One attractice feature of our program has been the longstading relation maintained by Indiana University School of Medicine with Moy University Medical School in Kenya. Trainees in the Internal Medicine program and occasional subspecialty programs have been able to attend off-site rotations through an exchange program with Moy.

The Division of Gastroenterology also provides advanced training in ERCP and EUS. The two programs are separated and each is designed to last 12 months. Availability in these programs is limited to generally 1-2 positions per year. For further information regarding the advance biliary-pancreatic endoscopy training please contact the respective subspecialty program directors, Dr Evan Fogel (ERCP) efogel@iupui.edu, phone: (317) 948-6997 or Dr Mohammed Al-Haddad (EUS) moalhadd@iupui.edu, phone: (317) 948-8125.

At this point, we do not offer advanced training positions in hepatology or motility although intermittently support and funding may become available so please visit us periodically if you are interested in these areas of training.

Thank you for your interest in our program.

For further information, please contact:

Program Director:
Michael Chiorean, M.D.

Fellowship Coordinator:
Pat Wilkins
550 University Blvd, UH 4100
Indianapolis, IN 46202