Welcome to the BSG Undergraduates page where you can find out more about gastroenterology and hepatology as a career, how to get involved in the Society whilst at medical school, relevant events and resources, and details on how you can become a member of the BSG.
If you are considering a career in gastroenterology, you are in the right place! Medical students who are interested in Gastroenterology are welcome to join the Society free of charge. Membership will provide access to educational events, bursaries, speaker suggestions, networking opportunities and lots more.
Medical students who are interested in Gastroenterology are welcomed to join the Society free of charge.
Membership will provide access to educational events as well as other relevant information on our specialism. Membership will also allow medical students to apply for bursaries to attend the BSG Annual meeting, as well as covering up to £500 of travel expenses to attend.
The BSG will be able to assist with speakers for your university events, judges for essay prizes, networking, and opportunities to assist on research projects and audits.
Awards and Bursaries
We offer a range of bursaries for travel to attend BSG LIVE, as well as elective placements. We support medical students wanting to do placements abroad in the gastroenterology and hepatology fields. The elective bursaries run in the autumn of every year, you can read some of our elective placement success stories below. The travel bursaries cover the cost of attending our annual BSG LIVE conference and are initiated around April time.
In this BSG Podcast episode, Consultant Pharmacist, Fiona Rees is joined by IBD Clinical Research Fellow, Krishna Shah and Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist, Dr Mandeep Kaler to discuss pregnancy and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
In this episode of the BSG Top to Bottom podcast, Prof James East and Prof Pradeep Bhandari dive into the endoscopic aspects of the new BSG IBD Surveillance Guidelines.
The RCP Medicine podcast is a series of discussions on different topics relevant to physicians. This series includes recent episodes on IBD and Liver.
Useful Resources
Surgical management of adenocarcinoma of the oesophagogastric junction (AEG) has long been debated, largely because treatment strategies are borrowed from either oesophageal or gastric cancer protocols rather than built on AEG-specific evidence.
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