Education & Training
Date Published: 11/5/2009
Societies Release Report Evaluating GI/Hepatology Fellowship Training Curriculum
The AGA Institute, AASLD, ACG and ASGE have released the “Report of the Multisociety Task Force on GI Training,” which concludes that GI trainee physicians should have the opportunity to develop enhanced abilities and experiences in specific disease areas or procedures. Additionally, the task force concluded that GI training programs need to measure the achievements of trainees based on specific defined competencies rather than the duration of training alone. Read the announcement.
The task force, which was comprised of representatives from each of the four societies and chaired by Lawrence S. Friedman, MD, was convened to evaluate the current GI training model and to make recommendations on how it may be changed to better accommodate trainees’ interests in GI and hepatology. The task force made a number of recommendations regarding the future of gastroenterology training:
- Retain pairing of GI/hepatology training
- Create competency-based curriculum
- Condense training process for transplant hepatologists
- Enhance disease-specific training
- Include endoscopy as clinical focus
- Maintain current research training program
