The Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at UAB offers postdoctoral fellowship training in Advanced Endoscopy for one year, providing outstanding clinical training preparing physicians for a career in academic medicine and/or clinical practice.

Fellowship Experience

The UAB's Basil I. Hirschowitz Endoscopic Center of Excellence is a globally recognized center for advanced and therapeutic endoscopy, serving as a quaternary referral center with a high volume of complex procedures and a multi-state referral base. Our center features highly trained, well-published faculty who are considered top experts in Alabama and surrounding states for complex endoscopy. The fellowship program offers electives in various subspecialty clinics, providing advanced training in pancreatico-biliary and luminal endoscopy, and includes a wide variety of procedures such as Endoscopic Ultrasound guided transgastric ERCP (EDGE), Spyglass Cholangioscopy, and Endoscopic Mucosal Resection, among others.

The curriculum integrates multiple subspecialty clinics to tailor the program to the fellow's interests and career aspirations, providing a structured approach that builds a solid foundation and confidence in managing patients across inpatient Gastroenterology wards, consult services, and advanced endoscopy services.

Our one-year, non-accredited program provides superior advanced endoscopy training in a collaborative environment. We have specialty clinics across our medical campus, which is anchored by our 1,200 bed inpatient center UAB Hospital—the eighth largest public hospital in the nation. The hospital is in close proximity to the Birmingham VA Medical Center, UAB Hospital Highlands campus, The Kirklin Clinic, and Children's Hospital of Alabama where fellows also train.

People come from all over the state to take advantage of our life-changing care, offering a complex patient population and breadth of clinical learning opportunities. We approach medicine in a multi-disciplinary modality across a broad variety of diverse gastroenterology and hepatology-related conditions from pancreatitis to Crohn's disease and irritable bowel disease (IBD) to hepatic encephalopathy and liver disease, through mandatory and elective rotations. We accept applications through the Electronic Residency Application Service.

Clinical Rotations

The fellowship offers electives in various subspecialty clinics, including advanced training in pancreatico-biliary and luminal endoscopy. Our center performs a wide variety of endoscopic procedures, such as Endosonographic pseudocyst drainage, Endoscopic Ultrasound guided transgastric ERCP (EDGE), and Spyglass Cholangioscopy. The curriculum integrates multiple subspecialty clinics tailored to the fellow's interests, building a solid foundation in managing patients across inpatient Gastroenterology, consult service, and Advanced Endoscopy. Outpatient service obligations include four weeks of general gastroenterology call, one month of gastroenterology consult service, and one day per week of general endoscopy at UAB Hospital Jefferson Towers.

Teaching Conferences

Our training program is designed to provide our fellows with significant opportunities for teaching. Fellows are expected to help train/teach our residents and students rotating through the service while in charge of the consult service. Fellows discuss cases and formulate a management plan together with the residents and students prior to rounds with the supervising attending on a daily basis. Fellows are also required to present and discuss cases at our conferences, as well as deliver lectures to medical students on a basic or clinical endocrine topic.

Research Training

Research is also an essential part of our training program. The fellows meet with research mentors in the first month of training to identify a research mentor and participate in a research project based on interest. Research may be a clinical or transitional project depending on interest.  Fellows are expected to present one major publication and two abstracts of their research findings at regional or national scientific meetings.

Thank you for your interest in our Advanced Endoscopy Fellowship Program at UAB. Our program is a one-year program and requires three years of previous US ACGME-accredited training. We participate in the American Society of Gastrointestinal Endscopy (ASGE) Advanced Endoscopy Fellowship Matching Program.  

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