Gastroenterology Fellowship

Gastroenterology Fellowship

The Gastroenterology Fellowship program at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Lubbock was accredited in 2021, and the inaugural class of two fellows began training July 1, 2022. The goal is to train and retain physicians to practice in the surrounding West Texas communities.

The primary training site for endoscopy and inpatient consultation services is University Medical Center, a Level I Trauma Center, nonprofit county-owned hospital. At the end of training, the fellow will have met the requirements of the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) for eligibility for the admission to the gastroenterology examination. Our program graduates possess the knowledge, skills, clinical judgment, attitudes and values of professionalism essential to the practice of gastroenterology. 

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Goals and Mission 

The goal and the mission of our GI fellowship program is to provide a sound knowledge of broad spectrum of gastrointestinal, pancreaticobiliary and liver disorders, train the fellows with excellent clinical skills to prepare them for independent practice either in an academic setting or a private practice setting, to nurture the intellectual and innovative abilities of our fellows through the scholarly activities and to prepare them for future leadership roles in GI societies.  The program expects that at the end of the three-year fellowship our fellows will achieve a high degree of professionalism and competency in clinical skills and clinical reasoning of general and complex GI and pancreaticobiliary and hepatic disorders and be successful in ABIM GI board certification examination.