Medical Student Rotation
Designed for students with prior clinical experience who wish to participate as a memeber of a GI consultation team in its day-to-day operation, this course offers a month with the GI Service at HUP.
A close working relationship with GI fellows is emphasized. Activities include direct participation in consultations on GI referral patients, care of GI inpatients, and diagnostic procedures with fellows and trainees. Systematic introduction to gastrointestinal disorders is achieved through study of selected patients, and regular weekly conferences including clinical and research conferences.
| Monday Journal Club | 5-6 pm |
| Liver Conference | 8-9 am |
| Tuesday Pathology | 4-5 pm |
| Wednesday Clinical Cases | 4-5 pm |
| GI Grand Rounds | 5-6 pm |
| Friday GI Outpatient | 8-9 pm |
Journals and textbooks are available for your use. There is also a file of pertinent general GI articles that you may want to copy. General topics you will become familiar with by the end of the month's rotation include:
- Approach to the Patient with Abdominal Pain
- Upper and Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding
- Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease
- Peptic Ulcer Disease/H. Pylori
- Approach to the Patient with Jaundice
- Biliary Tract Disease
- Acute and Chronic Hepatitis
- Cirrhosis and Its Complications
- Approach to the Patient with Diarrhea or Constipation
- Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn's Disease
- Acute and Chronic Pancreatitis
- Neoplasms of the Gastrointestinal Tract
- AIDS and the GI Tract
- Colon Cancer Screening, Therapy
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Functional Disorders
For more information contact:
Anil K. Rustgi, MD
T. Grier Miller Professor of Medicine and Genetics
Chief, Division of Gastroenterology
University of Pennsylvania
Division of Gastroenterology
415 Curie Boulevard, 600 Clinical Research Building
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Phone: 215-898-0154 Fax: 215-573-2024
Email: anil2@mail.med.upenn.edu