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Fellows will be expected to attend all conferences, which include Journal Club, GI Research Conference, Hepatobiliary Conference, Radiology Conference, Valley Gut Club, and Morbidity and Mortality Conference. Fellows will actively participate in preparing and presenting core curriculum topics under the supervision of a faculty with expertise in the area. That particular faculty will moderate those sessions while the rest of the faulty will be available to provide their input and make comments.
GI/Liver Pathology Conference
This conference provides the fellows with a basic overview in gastrointestinal/liver pathology. It focuses on the basics of GI pathology in an informal systematic fashion. The course is lead by a core gastroenterology faculty member and a pathologist at CRMC.
Radiology Conference
This is an informal conference, with fellow participation, aided by faculty from the Department of Radiology. The conference involves fellows to present interesting imaging on their patients. These images are available electronically through our EMR system. This allows an avenue for the radiology faculty and GI fellows to participate in stimulating discussions and correlate radiologic findings with clinical scenarios.
Hepatobiliary Conference
The hepatobiliary conference introduces fellows to the diagnosis, pre-and post-operative care of a variety of gastrointestinal, hepatobiliary and pancreatic diseases through discussions of interesting cases. These cases are presented by GI fellows in the presence of faculty from both GI and Surgery. Potential medical and surgical therapeutic options along with limitations and complications of individual cases are discussed in detail, after which management recommendations are made.
Research Conference
Research conference provides an opportunity for fellows to formally analyze the elements of study design, data analysis, outcomes and effectiveness research, statistics, epidemiology, and other skills necessary to conduct and evaluate clinical investigations. It also allows a venue for the department to address quality improvement innovations and initiatives, in addition to developing system-based practices.
Journal Club
The journal club is used as a tool to teach fellows the skills of critical reading, detection of biases, assessment of validity of controls, application of statistics, analysis of results, and related attributes of scientific studies. This provides a great opportunity to each fellow to critically evaluate published articles in basic or applied.
Valley Gut Club
Valley Gut Club is a monthly CME program organized by the division. We invite visiting scholars, professors, and national opinion leaders to stimulate new thoughts and ideas among trainees, faculty, and community gastroenterologist. This program serves as an academic resource for the Central Valley physicians.Morbidity and Mortality Conference
Morbidity and Mortality Conferences provide an avenue for attending physicians and fellows to improve clinical performance and identify areas of improvement through a professional means by reviewing cases involving adverse clinical events. This promotes professionalism and ethical integrity while focusing on how to avoid future pitfalls. These conferences serve to stimulate discussion of related issues such as risk management, reducing error, and continuous quality improvement. This forum teaches our fellows quality improvement measures while encouraging leadership, research, practice based learning, patient care, medical knowledge, practice and systems based learning, as well as interpersonal and communication skills.
MONTHLY CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
Wednesday |
Thursday |
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Week 1 |
GI-Oncology Conference |
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Week 2 |
GI-Pathology Conference |
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Week 3 |
GI-Radiology Conference |
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Week 4 |
Journal Club 2:00-4:30 pm |
Hepatobiliary Conference 7:00-8:00 am |