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Inflamm Bowel Dis. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2017 July 01. Published in final edited form as: Inflamm Bowel Dis. 2016 July ; 22(7): 1609–1615. doi:10.1097/MIB.0000000000000766.
State of Adult Trainee Inflammatory Bowel Disease Education in the United States: A National Survey Benjamin L. Cohen, MD, MAS1, Christina Ha, MD2, Ashwin N Ananthakrishnan, MD3, Florian Rieder, MD4, and Meenakshi Bewtra, MD, MPH, PhD5 on behalf of the REACH-IBD group 1Division
of Gastroenterology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United
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States 2Division
of Digestive Diseases, Center for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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of Gastroenterology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States 4Department
of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Digestive Disease Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, United States
5Department
of Gastroenterology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States. Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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Abstract Introduction—The fundamentals of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) education begin during gastroenterology (GI) fellowship training. We performed a survey of GI fellowship program directors (PD) and trainees with the aim to further examine the current state of IBD training in the United States. Materials and Methods—A 15-question PD survey and 19-question trainee survey was performed using an online platform.
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Results—Surveys were completed by 43/161 (27%) PDs and 160 trainees. All trainee years were equally represented. A significant proportion of trainees was unsure or felt their inpatient (32%) or outpatient (43%) training was inadequate. Only 28% of trainees were satisfied with their current level of IBD exposure during training. Fewer than half the trainees reported comfort in the management of pouch or stoma issues, the pregnant IBD patient, or post-operative management. The proportion of PDs viewing a competency as essential for trainee education strongly correlated with trainee comfort in that area (Pearson’s rho = 0.793, p
Inflamm Bowel Dis. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2017 July 01. Published in final edited form as: Inflamm Bowel Dis. 2016 July ; 22(7): 1609–1615. doi:10.1097/MIB.0000000000000766.
State of Adult Trainee Inflammatory Bowel Disease Education in the United States: A National Survey Benjamin L. Cohen, MD, MAS1, Christina Ha, MD2, Ashwin N Ananthakrishnan, MD3, Florian Rieder, MD4, and Meenakshi Bewtra, MD, MPH, PhD5 on behalf of the REACH-IBD group 1Division
of Gastroenterology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United
Author Manuscript
States 2Division
of Digestive Diseases, Center for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States
3Division
of Gastroenterology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States 4Department
of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Digestive Disease Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, United States
5Department
of Gastroenterology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States. Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Author Manuscript
Abstract Introduction—The fundamentals of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) education begin during gastroenterology (GI) fellowship training. We performed a survey of GI fellowship program directors (PD) and trainees with the aim to further examine the current state of IBD training in the United States. Materials and Methods—A 15-question PD survey and 19-question trainee survey was performed using an online platform.
Author Manuscript
Results—Surveys were completed by 43/161 (27%) PDs and 160 trainees. All trainee years were equally represented. A significant proportion of trainees was unsure or felt their inpatient (32%) or outpatient (43%) training was inadequate. Only 28% of trainees were satisfied with their current level of IBD exposure during training. Fewer than half the trainees reported comfort in the management of pouch or stoma issues, the pregnant IBD patient, or post-operative management. The proportion of PDs viewing a competency as essential for trainee education strongly correlated with trainee comfort in that area (Pearson’s rho = 0.793, p
