The Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the University of Pennsylvania is committed to excellence in patient care, education, and research. The fellowship program, originally founded in 1929 by T. Grier Miller, M.D., has played a major role in training academic gastroenterologists throughout the world.
The University of Pennsylvania’s combined training program in gastroenterology incorporates the resources at the recently expanded Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP), Penn Presbyterian Medical Center (PPMC), Pennsylvania Hospital (PAH), and the VA Medical Center, providing access to approximately 1,879 hospital beds as well as outstanding faculty, co-fellows, and house staff. The Gastroenterology and Hepatology Division has a wide range of modern research facilities for state-of-the-art studies in molecular and cell biology, genetics, immunology, physiology, pharmacology and biochemistry, alongside outstanding clinical research programs in epidemiology, inflammatory bowel disease, gastrointestinal oncology, hepatology, esophageal disorders, and neurogastroenterology, among others.
The fundamental goal of the University of Pennsylvania Gastroenterology Fellowship Program is to train fellows for eventual careers in academic medicine. Graduates of the fellowship program have done extremely well in acquiring academic faculty positions and funding grants.
There are three distinct tracks within the fellowship program: the basic science track, the clinical epidemiology track, and the clinical scholar track. The first year of fellowship provides extensive clinical experience and is the same for all tracks. The basic science and clinical epidemiology tracks dedicate substantial time to research during the second and third years of fellowship.
In the upcoming application cycle, we will recruit 7 new fellows (3 into the basic science track and 2 into each of the clinical epidemiology and clinical scholar tracks). Track selection ideally occurs prior to interviewing with our program and is finalized prior to matching with our program. Candidates may apply to multiple tracks but optimize their competitiveness by focusing on a single track.
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