Educational Programs

The resident fellow experiences scheduled educational activities in addition to the teaching at the outpatient clinics, inpatient wards and endoscopy suites. Monthly Fellow’s Conference with assigned faculty allows informal discussion of selected clinical topics. A Book Club, where textbook chapters are systematically reviewed with the faculty, is conducted by a resident fellow monthly. Interesting case histories and radiologic findings are presented and management discussed at the monthly Multidisciplinary GI/Pediatric Surgery/Radiology Conference. The weekly Pathology Conference allows the resident fellow to correlate clinical and endoscopic findings with histopathologic diagnoses. Experts in other fields of Pediatrics and Medicine are invited for small group discussions of pertinent topics. Pediatric Grand Rounds are held every Wednesday and “Art of Medicine” conferences are conducted by the Department of Pediatrics twice a month. The fellows are required to attend courses in Research Methods, Grant-Writing, Molecular Biology and Biostatistics conducted by Indiana University faculty. The strength of our educational program is reflected in our fellows’ pediatric GI in-service exam scores which were above the national mean since 2002. The resident fellow has the opportunity to teach house staff and medical students during clinical rounds, scheduled Pediatric GI lectures and during Pediatric Morning Report.

Indiana University has been funded by the National Institute of Health through a K-30 grant to develop and implement the Clinical Investigator Training Enhancement (CITE) program. This provides the interested resident fellow an opportunity to complete a two-year formal clinical research curriculum, at the end of which a Master of Science in Clinical Research degree will be awarded. Training in Clinical Pharmacology is also available.