Advanced Endoscopy Fellowship
Director: James M Scheiman, MD, FASGE, FACP, FACG, AGAF
Applications for the 2011 Fourth-Year Advanced Endoscopy Fellowship are now closed. Applications for the 2012 Fourth-Year Advanced Endoscopy Fellowship will be accepted 1 August 2010 to 1 November 2010 (12 AM EST). Please contact Jeannette Miclette at jeannett@med.umich.edu or (734) 615-8468 if you have questions.
Overview
The Advanced Endoscopy Fellowship is a 1-year training program for candidates who have already completed a 3-year ABIM-certified Gastroenterology Fellowship. The purposes of this 4th-year Endoscopy Training Program are to provide the fellows with the cognitive and technical skills to perform EUS and ERCP and related endoscopic procedures at the expert level. The program seeks to train the future leaders of academic endoscopy in the United States as well as internationally.
Applicants must be U.S. citizens or have permanent residency status.
Applicants with a J-1 or H1B visas are not eligible to apply for this training program because salary support for the fellowship is provided by the trainee, who performs general endsocopic procedures one day per week.
Clinical Training
The dedicated faculty are all experts in both procedures; the program performs over 1200 EUS and 700 ERCP procedures per year, providing suitable experience to train two advanced fellows. In addition the trainees will gain exposure to state-of-the-art stenting and mucosal resection/ablation techniques as well as balloon-assisted enteroscopy. A dedicated case conference is run by the trainees in collaboration with the active faculty on a biweekly basis. In addition, there is a broad array of conferences the GI Division offers to enhance the trainees’ experience.
The advanced endsocopy trainee is expected to participate in scholarly activity. Active and funded endoscopy research programs include participation in the Developmental Endoscopy Research Laboratory (DEAL) focusing on NOTES and related device development investigation. There are numerous translational research studies undertaken by the program faculty as well as the GI Division and University of Michigan Health System overall, including active collaborations with the College of Engineering.
Previous Trainees
Our first graduate in 2008 has begun the first EUS program in Thailand. The University of Michigan has previously offered EUS and ERCP training during the second and third years of the GI fellowship, with trainees in leadership positions in major hospitals and universities across the United States.
Advanced Endoscopy Training Program Faculty
James M Scheiman, MD, Program Director
Michelle A Anderson, MD, MSc
Joseph Elmunzer, MD
Grace H Elta, MD
Richard Kwon, MD
Cyrus Piraka
Erik-Jan Wamsteker, MD
Applications for the 2011 Fourth-Year Advanced Endoscopy Fellowship are now closed. Applications for the 2012 Fourth-Year Advanced Endoscopy Fellowship will be accepted 1 August 2010 to 1 November 2010 (12 AM EST). Please contact Jeannette Miclette at jeannett@med.umich.edu or (734) 615-8468 if you have questions.
