What to expect
- Workroom for gastroenterology fellows in the clinic building
- Laptop with a token for remote access to electronic medical record and imaging
- An iPhone to facilitate taking a call
- $1500 educational stipend
- 20 days vacation and 5 days educational leave
- $720 Health and Wellness stipend
- $3500 housing stipend
- $1000 relocation stipend
A sample schedule by fellowship year is provided below. General principles include:
Night and weekend call
First-year fellows are on call approximately two weekdays a week and one weekend a month. Second-year and third-year fellows are on call one weekday per week and one weekend per month.
Outpatient clinic
Continuity Clinic runs throughout the year for one-half day per week. There are additional half-day out-patient clinics for IBD and Complex Liver Disease throughout the year for fellows to attend when not taking in-patient calls.
Training sites
Most clinical duties will be at KP San Francisco’s main campus (2425 Geary Boulevard, located in the center of San Francisco). The Esophageal Advanced Training program and 2 months of In-patient consults in your second year will occur at Kaiser Oakland, a 45-minute commute by car or mass transit from San Francisco Medical Center. A liver transplant rotation will be at UCSF, a 10-minute commute from the main San Francisco Kaiser Campus. There will be no call responsibilities at the San Francisco medical center when at the UCSF or Oakland sites.
Conferences
A 40-week comprehensive gastroenterology introduction and review course on key topics will be held every year taught by local faculty, regional or outside experts. There will be rotating weekly or twice weekly conferences on GI Case presentations, complex liver disease, QA, QI, Journal Club, Research review, and IBD review board.
Research
All fellows are expected to participate in research and quality improvement projects. The research will largely utilize retrospective data collected among the >4 million members in Kaiser Permanente Northern California (KPNC), although prospective trials are also in progress. This represents one of the world’s largest comprehensive data sets including procedure, pathology, radiology, and comorbidity data. KPNC residency and fellowship programs are equipped with a dedicated GME Research Project Manager, a strong Division of Research with >50 investigators, >600 staff (analysts, project managers, etc.), and a dedicated bio-statistical unit for assisting with projects related to graduate medical education. Mentorship is available from knowledgeable research faculty with extensive project experience with KPNC.
Fellow Rotation Schedules by Year
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