Welcome to our Department
Gastroenterology is the branch of medicine focused
on the digestive system and its disorders. Diseases affecting
the gastrointestinal tract, which include the organs from mouth into anus,
along the alimentary canal, are the focus of this
speciality. Physicians practicing in this field are
called gastroenterologists. They have usually completed about eight years
of pre-medical and medical education, a
year-long internship (if this is not a part of the residency), three years of
an internal medicine residency, and two to three years in the gastroenterology
fellowship. Gastroenterologists perform a number of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures
including colonoscopy, endoscopy, endoscopic retrograde cholangiancreatography
(ERCP), endoscopic ultrasound and liver biopsy.
Some gastroenterology trainees will complete a\"fourth-year\"
(although this is often their seventh year of graduate medical education) in
transplant hepatology, advanced endoscopy, inflammatory
bowel disease, motility or other topics.
