Fellowships
The education of physicians is a primary objective of the Department of Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. As with the other subspecialty training programs in internal medicine, the Baylor Gastroenterology Fellowship Training Program provides selected applicants an opportunity to become accomplished specialists, able to function at the highest level in a clinical, academic or research environment.
The distinguishing and very attractive features of the Baylor GI Fellowship include the following:
- Clinical rotations are evenly divided between three very different learning environments: a city-county hospital (Ben Taub General Hospital); a Veterans Affairs hospital (The Michael DeBakey Veterans Affairs Hospital); and a celebrated private hospital (The St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital) and clinic (The Baylor Clinic).
- Each fellow performs between 500 and 1,000 colonoscopies and upper endoscopies during the first year at the Ben Taub and the VA.
- The second year has advanced rotations in hepatology at our two liver transplant centers.
- The second year also includes two to three months of protected time for mentored research.
- With the satisfactory completion of the first two years, all fellows on the Clinical Tract are given the opportunity to learn advanced endoscopy, including ERCP and EUS.
- Candidates desiring a career in GI research and academics can be considered for the Academic and Research Tract which includes 18 months of clinical training and 18 months of mentored research.
We strongly encourage you to visit Houston and the Texas Medical Center. We welcome the opportunity to meet with you, tell you about our educational activities, show you our facilities, and provide time for you to learn about our program from members of our faculty and our current fellows. In preparation for your visit, we invite you to look at the written curriculum. We look forward to receiving an application and arranging a visit with you.