Program Overview

Gastroenterology Fellowship Program Description

The NorthShore program offers extensive training in clinical gastroenterology. Fellows will assess diverse patients with a wide variety of gastrointestinal, pancreatobiliary and hepatic diseases during inpatient and outpatient rotations at both NorthShore University HealthSystem and University of Chicago Hospitals.

The fellowship is a three-year training program and is fully accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).  NorthShore comprises 4 main teaching hospitals - Evanston, Glenbrook, Highland Park, & Skokie.  Our fellows rotate through inpatient teaching services, outpatient endoscopy, and elective clinic settings at all 4 sites.  First year continuity practice is Wednesday afternoon in the OPD Clinic, providing comprehensive, fully subsidized GI care through our Evanston-based community outreach programs.  Senior (2nd and 3rd Year) fellows choose their own weekly continuity clinic based on their interests in 6 or 12 month blocks.

Wednesday mornings our fellows all gather together at Evanston for weekly didactics half days:  spending hour-long blocks on research design and methodology, radiology, pathology, board review, clinical case conference, attending didactic lectures on the complete breadth of GI services and topics, amongst other educational opportunities. Also unique to our program are the rotations at our affiliate institution, the University of Chicago, our quaternary referral center and partner where our fellows supplement their NorthShore experience with teaching rotations in Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Transplant Hepatology and the Enteral/Parenteral Nutrition service at U of C.  Our fellows all participate in research and quality improvement and develop extremely strong diagnostic and endoscopic skills by the end of their three years of training.

Rotation Overview