Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition Fellowship
Program Director
Program Overview
We are a world-class pediatric gastroenterology group with a very strong national reputation and involvement. We are excited to start offering this new fellowship program in 2008. Our group is affiliated with an adult gastroenterology group at the University of Washington, which is regarded as one of the top gastroenterology divisions in the country. As the only academic pediatric gastroenterology group in the Pacific Northwest, we serve a broad geographic area and have a large patient population with chronic gastrointestinal and liver disease. Our program includes active inflammatory bowel disease, hepatology and liver transplantation, and has one of the few intestinal transplant programs in the country. Our affiliations with University of Washington Medical Center and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center make research opportunities among the best in the world.
During the first year, fellows have intensive exposure to inpatient and outpatient gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition. They develop skills in relevant procedures and are exposed to both liver and bowel transplantation and adult gastroenterology. In their second and third years, aside from weekly clinics, fellows focus on an academic research pursuit. They are expected to complete relevant course work and academic requirements for training and to prepare a research project from start to finish. During the fellowship, they are expected to present their work locally and are encouraged to present at national meetings. Fellows will obtain the skills necessary to become independent academic pediatric gastroenterologists with active research programs.
Areas of clinical focus include inpatient gastroenterology, consultations, and performing procedures. Fellows also participate in subspecialty clinics (i.e., IBD, hepatology, transplant and bowel rehabilitation) and adult gastroenterology care at the University of Washington Medical Center. Throughout the program, fellows have their own continuity clinic, where they care for outpatient pediatric gastroenterology patients.
Research opportunities for a training fellow are limitless. Within our division we are currently doing clinical research in transplantation, hepatitis, inflammatory bowel disease and abdominal pain, and basic research in hepatic metabolism. Collaborative researchers at our affiliate institutions in gastroenterology have active programs in hepatobiliary disease, hepatitis, inflammatory bowel disease, motility disorders, and the immunologic basis of gastrointestinal disease; they also do basic science research in the pathophysiological and biochemical basis of these diseases.
Board certification eligibility upon fellowship completion: Pediatric Gastroenterology
Length of fellowship: 3 years
Number of fellowships available: 1
Application Requirements
- Prerequisites/post–medical school requirements: Fellow must have graduated from an accredited medical school and have completed a pediatric residency program at an accredited institution. The individual must be board eligible/certified in General Pediatrics.
- Application deadline: Oct. 30
- Interview start and end dates: Sept. 1 and Oct. 30
- Match date: March 17
- For applications forms call our office
For more information
Brianne Vanderlinden
Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center
PO Box 5371
M/S: W7830
Seattle, WA 98105-0371
Phone: (206) 987-2587
Fax: (206) 987-2721
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