The fellow is responsible for literature reviews on assigned topics relating to current clinical problems for presentation at the weekly clinical conferences and for supervision of students and residents rotating in the endocrine service. The fellowship program in gastroenterology at Palmetto Richland is a combined program with the William Jennings Bryan Dorn Veterans' Hospital and is directly affiliated with the University of South Carolina School of Medicine. The three-year fellowship accepts two fellows at each level. All applicants should have satisfactorily completed three years of internal medicine training. The program is designed to provide training in clinical gastroenterology and introduce investigative and intellectual skills necessary for a career in clinical or academic medicine.
Clinical training occurs at both affiliated hospitals.
In addition, senior fellows are offered one-month rotations in pediatric gastroenterology. Teaching conferences include monthly radiology and pathology conferences, monthly journal club, GI endoscopy conference, topics review and GI surgery conference. Fellows are expected to participate actively, including presentation and coordination of all conferences. Fellows receive training in all major diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopic procedures as determined by their individual skills and level of training. Fellows are exposed to computerized 24-hour ambulatory pH and motility monitoring, esophageal and anal manometry, breath hydrogen testing, gastric analysis and secretin provocative testing.