 Thorough knowledge of gastrointestinal disease is a
sine-qua-non for any surgeon. To this end, the Sinai surgical residents will
rotate in the Division of Gastroenterology at Sinai Hospital during their 3rd
or 4th clinical year for a period of six weeks.
During that time, the surgical residents will participate in all care
rendered to inpatient GI patients at Sinai Hospital: admission,
consultation, diagnostic workup, endoscopic procedures, post-operative
care and discharge.
The comprehensive GI
specialty curriculum includes lectures and readings on: acute and chronic
pancreatitis, GI bleeding, cholelithiasis, cholecystitis and biliary emergencies;
inflammatory bowel disease; colonic polyps and cancers; considerations
in diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy; malabsorption, celiac disease and management
of diarrhea; GERD and Barrett's disease; peptic ulcer and H. pylori; complications
of ulcer disease; hepatitis, cirrhosis and liver failure; diverticulosis
and diverticulitis; gastric cancer; rare GI tumors; achalasia esophageal
dysmotility and diverticula; and colitis.
During this rotation, the residents will spend a
large amount of their time in the state-of-the-art GI diagnostic suite learning to
perform esophago-gastro-duodenoscopies, sigmoidoscopies and colonoscopies,
and related diagnostic and therapeutic interventions. The residents will
learn the principles and pitfalls of ERCP and endoscopic ultrasound.
In addition, the surgical residents will attend the weekly
general surgery M&M, core curriculum and case-based resident lectures, as well
as medicine noon conference/Grand Rounds when applicable to GI topics.
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