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Program overview

Our program is varied and emphasizes hands-on training. 

You’ll do one-month rotations, with assignments to:

  • GI procedures
  • GI lab, including manometry, pH studies and capsule endoscopy
  • GI consults
  • Hepatology consults
  • Pediatrics 
  • Nutrition

Evidence-based medicine is assigned in one-month blocks and as requested during the academic year. We hold separate hepatology and gastroenterology continuity clinics each week. 

The hepatology rotation includes a weekly transplant clinic, and the nutrition rotation includes malnutrition, high-risk obesity and tube-feeding clinics.

On average, our fellows perform 733 EGD procedures and 857 colonoscopies during their training. 

 

View a sample block rotation schedule

The fellow experience

Overall, you’ll receive state-of-the-art training in consultative gastroenterology and hepatology at a nationally recognized, integrated health system. You’ll hone excellent endoscopic skills and participate in meaningful quality improvement and population management projects.

Geisinger has a long-established electronic health record, which will also give you access to data not available at most large academic centers. 

 

Specialty services

Gastroenterology clinical laboratory

  • Anorectal and esophageal manometry
  • Capsule endoscopy
  • 24-hour and Bravo pH testing
  • Breath testing for lactose intolerance and bacterial overgrowth
  • pH impedance testing

Endoscopic services

  • Argon plasma coagulation
  • Barrett’s and chronic ulcerative colitis dysplasia surveillance
  • Barrett’s mucosal ablation (Barrx, Cryo)
  • Celiac plexus block and neurolysis
  • Cholangioscopy
  • Colonoscopy/polypectomy
  • Computerized automatic recall system
  • Cystogastrostomy
  • Deep small bowel enteroscopy
  • Diagnostic and therapeutic upper GI endoscopy
  • Endoscopic management of walled-off pancreatic necrosis
  • Endoscopic mucosal resection
  • Endoscopic submucosal dissection
  • Endoscopic ultrasonography with FNA
  • Esophageal, duodenal and colonic stenting
  • PEG tube placement
  • POEM
  • ProVation computer-generated endoscopy reports
  • Stretta procedure
  • Therapeutic biliary endoscopy (ERCP)
  • Variceal banding