Fellowship Match

GI Match provides a streamlined and equitable system for GI recruitment. All programs, whether large or small, research or clinically focused, benefit from participation in the Match. However, the success of the Match depends on sustained participation by all GI training programs.

• Please distribute to your fellowship applicants the joint-society adopted resolution, approved November 2005 that encourages applicants to consider all programs before making an early and quick decision on where to train.
• Contact your peers directly to engage in a constructive dialogue about the Match and the overall and multiple benefits of participating.
• Training directors are strongly encouraged to assume direct responsibility for registering and entering all necessary data into the NRMP’s registration system. This includes the program’s information and the number of positions entered into the Match per track. The Match agreement is legally binding; therefore, it is important that the training director ensures the accuracy of this data.

If you have any questions or comments, please do not hesitate to contact GIMatch@gastro.org.

The American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) is participating in an ABIM-approved GI/transplant hepatology pilot fellowship training program that allows eligible GI fellows to spend their third year training in transplant hepatology. If all GI and transplant hepatology competencies are achieved by the end of the third year, approved pilot fellows are eligible to take both GI and transplant hepatology ABIM certification examinations. This program is primarily designed to pilot a new competency-based training and assessment curriculum but has the potential of shortening training from four years to three. Any Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)-accredited GI fellowship program that has an affiliated ACGME-accredited transplant hepatology fellowship program is eligible to participate. Key information:

• Eligible programs and interested fellows can apply to AASLD during the fellow’s second year.
• We encourage programs to identify interested fellows during their first year to ensure that the potential pilot fellow can complete all clinical GI requirements by the end of the second year and is on a trajectory to complete all GI competencies by the end of the third year to a degree sufficient to allow the fellow to focus the majority of the third year on the achievement of competency in transplant hepatology.
• Interested fellows cannot apply to the pilot program before they enroll in a GI fellowship program; however, we encourage fellows to discuss their interest in transplant hepatology and in the pilot when they apply, in part to determine whether participation in the pilot may be an option.

GI/Transplant Hepatology Pilot Fellowship Training Program FAQ Please contact the AASLD Transplant Hepatology Pilot Steering Committee Chair Oren Fix, MD, MSc, AGAF, at Oren.Fix@swedish.org for questions or additional information.