BSG Endorsed Endoscopy Fellowships
The overall goal of an endoscopy fellowship is to allow a trainee the opportunity to gain expert subspecialty clinical skills in endoscopy and to accelerate their career development. This document explains the criteria & the process for endorsement of your endoscopy fellowship by the BSG.
Endorsed Fellowships
King's College Hospital, London
Clinical lead: Dr Deepak Joshi ([email protected])
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Clinical lead: Dr Noor Mohammed ([email protected])
North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust
Clinical lead: Prof Matt Rutter ([email protected])
Recurring opportunity, find out more.
North Tees and Hartlepool Foundation Trust
Clinical lead: Vikramjit Mitra ([email protected])
Recurring opportunity, find out more.
Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust
Clinical lead: Prof Pradeep Bhandari ([email protected])
One-off opportunity, find out more.
Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead NHS Health Trust
Clinical lead: Dr Jaime Barbour ([email protected])
Recurring opportunity, find out more.
Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead and County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust
Clinical leads: Dr Jaime Barbour ([email protected]) and Prof Anjan Dhar ([email protected])
Endorsement Process
The BSG endorses endoscopy fellowships to ensure that fellows achieve comprehensive endoscopy training under senior educational supervision. Centres must have a formal training plan to ensure the fellow receives a comprehensive training program.
We expect that the fellowship will usually be undertaken after CCT although training during the later stages of higher specialty training is also possible. We also expect that the fellowship will focus on one of the following aspects of advanced endoscopy:
- Therapeutic Upper GI
- Therapeutic Colonoscopy
- Pancreatobiliary endoscopy +/- advanced EUS/ERCP procedures.
- Small bowel endoscopy including device assisted enteroscopy
We appreciate some fellowships will have a combination of procedures, but the overarching focus should be on one of the above.
Once endorsed, host centres will be permitted to use the BSG logo and state that the fellowship is endorsed by the BSG. The BSG will highlight to the trainee section members all available endorsed UK endoscopy fellowships.
Centres must be based in the UK and should have the following resources in place to ensure
Fellows are exposed to all aspects of the endoscopy :
- Centres must have a dedicated fellowship training lead
- Regular MDT attendance(2/month) to ensure experience in GI radiology, pathology & joint medical/surgical working
- Support of endoscopy unit nurses
- Outpatient clinic with fellowship specific experience
- Inpatient management including complications - Regular attendance of the endoscopy M& M meetings
- Strong links to the local tertiary referral centre to ensure optimal patient management
Training units should be able to provide fellow with dedicated time for clinical research or a quality improvement project.
Criteria
We recognise that centres may require the fellow to work in other aspects of GI or general medical shifts to allow for funding of posts. However, the fellowship should include the following minimum number of clinical events to allow for sufficient experience:
- At least 4 - 5 training lists/week
- Regular (2/month) MDT attendance
- No more than 40 - 50% service provision
- Attend fellowship specific CPD events e.g., BSG annual meeting, BSG live, etc
- Weekly session dedicated to audit/research
Centres should offer trainees the opportunities to personalize the curriculum based on a fellow’s individual interests. All data should be entered on the JETS portfolio.
In addition, arrangements should be in place for regular feedback/reflection in keeping with the core principles of training as outlined by JAG.
We would also expect the trainee to provide feedback to the BSG at 6 & 12 months to ensure their needs are being met.
The following short form allows for the submission of a job description, which will be reviewed by the Endoscopy Section committee.
Once approved, it will be posted on the BSG website.