Fellowship

• 2007 - 2008 Program Policy Manuals
  
  



• 2007 Teacher of the Year
  
  



• Compensation and Benefits
  
  



• Current Fellows
  
  



• Elements of Training
  
  



• Fellowship Application
  
  



• Living in the Twin Cities
  
  



• Parental Leave Policy
  
  



• Program Duration
  
  



• Residency Management Suite (RMS)
  
  



• Training Facilities
  
  

The University of Minnesota Gastroenterology Fellowship Training Program is an ACGME-accredited, three-year program.

The program director is Roger L. Gebhard, M.D. The three-year gastroenterology program currently consists of five training sites (FUMC, VA Medical Center, HCMC, Regions Hospital, and Abbott-Northwestern Hospital), 26 faculty members, and a current complement of nine trainees. We offer excellent training in all aspects of gastroenterology including standard GI procedures, biliary endoscopy, inflammatory bowel disease care, viral hepatitis, liver transplantation, and esophageal motility. 

The gastroenterology training program has been highly successful and extremely competitive, with more than 200 applicants for our trainee positions each year.  The quality of applicants is excellent, with candidates applying from outstanding teaching centers throughout the United States. Our fellows have expressed a high level of satisfaction with the training program. The graduates are in strong demand, because they are recognized as possessing superb clinical and endoscopic skills upon completion of our program.  All trainees undertake research projects during their second year of training, and every trainee who has graduated from the program in the past 10 years has published or presented a paper, abstract, or made an oral presentation at one of our national meetings. The trainees who complete our program and take ABIM boards have passed with excellent scores. About one half of our graduates become academic faculty members here or at other institutions.  We recognize the current extraordinary shortage of gastroenterologists locally and nationally, and are proud of our program and its important mission to provide outstanding graduates to meet current demands both in practice and in academia.

The University of Minnesota has a proud tradition of training in the specialty of Gastroenterology for over 30 years. Faculty members have included two former presidents of the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, past president of the American Association of Transplant Physicians, three former Schindler Award winners (for excellence in the advancement of endoscopy - more than any other university program), as well as a medical dean and GI division chiefs at outside universities. The University of Minnesota Gastroenterology Training Program consistently produces trainees with outstanding clinical and procedural skills, as well as excellent credentials for careers in academic medicine. At least 17 trainees currently hold full-time academic appointments, and nine others have been full-time faculty members. The program prides itself on its ability to meet individual trainees' needs and career goals.