Official 2023-2024 Gastroenterology Fellowship Application Cycle (2024)

Do not mind the unoriginal title! But I think it's definitely that time of year! So let's start it off!
Find below previous application cycle threads as well as some old spreadsheets!
The 2021-2022 spreadsheet seems to be lost in the ether

🆕 2023-2024 Gastroenterology Fellowship Apps 🆕

2022-2023 Gastroenterology Fellowship Apps

2020-2021 GI Fellowship Interview Responses

Official 2022-2023 Gastroenterology Fellowship Application Cycle

Official 2021-2022 Gastroenterology Fellowship Application Cycle

Official 2020-2021 GI Fellowship Application Cycle

Hoping for the best for everyone this match season! 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

"Come Mr. Sticky Man, Sticky This Thread"

Is that how this works?

greeenguu said:

"Come Mr. Sticky Man, Sticky This Thread"

Is that how this works?

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Hasn’t caught on yet I guess. Seems like SDN activity slowed down or maybe not many people follow it to Fellowship.

Lantern1 said:

Hi everyone, wanted to see how broadly should I apply?
IMG, not needing visa (green card/citizen), mid tier academic program, 2 year hospitalist+admin, 5 acg posters, 1 ddw, 2 aasld, and 3 regional. Total 15 publications, mix of gi and non gi, have few submitted GI related (at least 5, don’t know if they will be published before July5th). Scores 25/26/24. Letters are PD, 2 GI faculty from prior residency, 1 current employer/boss.
How broadly should I apply and should I target academic programs at all? Or stick to community?

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Did you apply before?

SandP said:

thoughts on listing geographic preference vs.not?

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I think the programs will get a notification that they are within your geographic preference. In my mind, if a program knows they are not within your geographic preference, why would they even bother to offer you an interview?

Created new google doc. Previous year's information available for easy access.

2023-2024 Gastroenterology Fellowship Apps

greeenguu said:

You might be onto something. Last year's thread only had 200+ replies and the year before it was >550. Hopefully this year will pick up steam.

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21-22 was excellent. @ShiShiMD and @cabergoline2 were clutch and there was not too much nonsense.

RaiImposs said:

Guys, does anyone know when Gastroenterology will publish the DDW 2023 abstracts in their supplements? Thank you

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I know what you are thinking. No they don’t count as additional publications in a journal.

slopes23 said:

I know what you are thinking. No they don’t count as additional publications in a journal.

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Thank you, so where do you put them? On poster section only?

RaiImposs said:

Thank you, so where do you put them? On poster section only?

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Yes.

St. Louis

Lantern1 said:

Will it be virtual or in person this year? Any idea?

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St. Louis Uni will conduct it in person. According to the spreadsheet, Mayo Florida will also conduct the IVs in person.

Yazan Abu Omar said:

Any thoughts on when the bulk of interviews get sent out for applicants ?

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It's highly variable. What I've gathered is that some of the higher tier programs I applied to have given me heads up that there application review process might not even be done until mid-august and to expect news around Aug. 15.

potatoman12 said:

2 Questions for you all. Is it frowned upon if you take a year or two to work as a hospitalist before applying to GI? Also, do people really have 30+ research projects like in the google doc?

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Like anything, it depends. Are you just working in a community hospital going about, enjoying life? Or are you working in an academic hospital furthering your network/interest/CV/research so that you will also have a stronger application come application time? The former will hurt you, the later will be neutral to possibly help you depending k. The strength of your application currently. Would recommend only doing 1 yr, not 2. Also recognize a risk that you may go hospitalist and decide to not come back or work with the same vigor after a taste of the sweet attending life (as compared to residency.)

Re: research, I’d say there are a lot of things people call research, and some people were research fellows before this and a lot of IMGs go crazy with research to try and make up for the fact that they are IMG. I’d say that there is diminishing returns after 10+ projects.

Best of luck.

potatoman12 said:

2 Questions for you all. Is it frowned upon if you take a year or two to work as a hospitalist before applying to GI? Also, do people really have 30+ research projects like in the google doc?

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No it's no frowned upon, but programs will want to know why you did that and why you needed to extra time. Some of the faculty at my program will probe more and ask why you didn't do more research in medicine residency.

Yes, there area a ton of people who have a ridiculous amount of research output, many of these ppl churn out anything and everything, many of them exploit databases like NIS, many of them learn SAS/STATA and do some sort of variation of "xyy, a systematic review and metaanalysis". It is apparent who did this and who just did normal, reasonable research, that was well thought out.

Hey guys, know this thread is for last application cycle but thought I'd post to see what you guys thought on my app. Currently a PGY2, trying to see how I can improve my app.

• USDO
• Solid community IM program with in-house GI fellowship
• Research
  • Publications - 6 total
    • 2 first author (case reports)
    • 3 non-first author case reports
    • 1 meta-analysis 3rd author
  • Presentations - 33 total abstracts
    • ACG - 22 total abstracts (1 oral presentation)
    • DDW - 4 total abstracts (1 first author meta analysis)
    • 15 non-case reports (mix of meta-analysis, retrospective studies, and QI projects)
    • 14 first author
  • Ongoing/upcoming projects
    • 2 retrospective studies that I am leading, hopefully will be able to publish something from them (1st author if published)
    • 2 retrospective original papers that will be submitting soon, hoping for publication in big journal (will be 1st author)
    • Planning to submit many of the presentation/posters as papers
    • 6 abstracts submitted to DDW 2024 (3 first author, retrospective studies and meta-analysis)
• Multiple ACG awards for presentations
• ACG leadership position
• Scores
  • Step 1 230s, Step 2 250s, did not take step 3 but took comlex level 3
• LORs - have not gotten them yet but planning to get one from well-known research PI/attending who I worked closely with, other GI faculty, and PD

Would appreciate any feedback you all have on how to improve my chances! I know it's harder to match as a DO so want to maximize my chances

FrechToastFries said:

Hey guys, know this thread is for last application cycle but thought I'd post to see what you guys thought on my app. Currently a PGY2, trying to see how I can improve my app.

• USDO
• Solid community IM program with in-house GI fellowship
• Research
  • Publications - 6 total
    • 2 first author (case reports)
    • 3 non-first author case reports
    • 1 meta-analysis 3rd author
  • Presentations - 33 total abstracts
    • ACG - 22 total abstracts (1 oral presentation)
    • DDW - 4 total abstracts (1 first author meta analysis)
    • 15 non-case reports (mix of meta-analysis, retrospective studies, and QI projects)
    • 14 first author
  • Ongoing/upcoming projects
    • 2 retrospective studies that I am leading, hopefully will be able to publish something from them (1st author if published)
    • 2 retrospective original papers that will be submitting soon, hoping for publication in big journal (will be 1st author)
    • Planning to submit many of the presentation/posters as papers
    • 6 abstracts submitted to DDW 2024 (3 first author, retrospective studies and meta-analysis)
• Multiple ACG awards for presentations
• ACG leadership position
• Scores
  • Step 1 230s, Step 2 250s, did not take step 3 but took comlex level 3
• LORs - have not gotten them yet but planning to get one from well-known research PI/attending who I worked closely with, other GI faculty, and PD

Would appreciate any feedback you all have on how to improve my chances! I know it's harder to match as a DO so want to maximize my chances

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congrats on getting all this done as a pgy2! your cv is solid, only thing is apply broadly and make as much contacts as you can! from personal experience contacts matter so much, in so many cases they are the only thing matter! its so variable, looks like you are pretty much well on tract with regards to research, so if you want to up your game then I'd say make contacts and utilize them when the time comes. your contacts can definitely get you an invite, and rest would be upto you how you utilize that invite.

Hi everyone,

Wondering why we haven’t seen a 2024-2025 thread yet but wanna throw this out there to garner some opinions.

What are my chances? And how many programs should I apply to? mostly concerned given lack of first-author original manuscript due to unfortunate timeline of current project

• USMD
• Top 10 IM program with competitive in-house GI fellowship
• Research mostly in hepatology, all with well-known faculties
  • Publications - 7 total
    • 1 first author review article
    • 4 second author retrospective studies
    • 2 second and third author basic biochemical study
    • 1 first author case report pending review
  • Presentations
    • ACG - 2 case abstract submitted
    • DDW - 1 retrospective poster presented
    • Liver Meeting - 1 retrospective abstract submitted
    • SGIM - 1 poster
    • All are first author
    • >=10 other poster abstracts during med school and prior to medicine with varying authorship between first and third
  • Ongoing projects
    • 2 active retrospective studies
    • 1 first-author manuscript being finalized but likely won't be submitted until after
• Awards:
  • 1 nationally recognized award by AASLD
  • 1 nationally recognized award by ACP
  • Full-ride scholar Med school
  • Other small scholarships/awards prior to medicine
• Scores
  • Step 1 230s, Step 2 240s, step 3 pass first attempt
• LORs - 3 nationally recognized Hepatology/GI faculties, 1 PD

Thank you ALL!!

You probably need a chief year to round out your application. Seems like you didn’t really take your time in residency all that seriously and could have done more to make yourself stand out.

I think you know where you stand.

slopes23 said:

You probably need a chief year to round out your application. Seems like you didn’t really take your time in residency all that seriously and could have done more to make yourself stand out.

I think you know where you stand.

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Appreciate the sarcasm! Lol I just don’t know how important a first author manuscript is especially when I have such profile! I have heard many different opinions and so wanted to throw this out there or garner some insights!!

Is there a 2024-2025 thread yet? It's quiet this year. I'll post an updated version of mine to see what you guys think.

• USDO
• Solid community IM program with in-house GI fellowship
• Research
  • Publications - 7 total
    • 2 first author (case reports)
    • 3 non-first author case reports
    • 1 meta-analysis non-first author
    • 1 review article 2nd author
  • Presentations - 45 total abstracts
    • ACG - 30 total abstracts (1 oral presentation)
    • DDW - 10 total abstracts (4 first author research/meta analysis, 1 oral presentation)
    • Mostly non-case reports
    • 20 first author
    • some other non ACG/DDW abstracts
  • Submitted projects
    • 5 submitted publications (2 as first author original research to well known high impact factor GI journals)
    • 10 abstracts submitted to ACG 24 (all original research, 4 first author)
  • Other research:
    • 1 retrospective studies that I am leading, not submitted anywhere
• Residency leadership position (non-chief)
• Awards: 10 research awards from national/international GI conferences for my projects
• ACG leadership position
• Scores
  • Step 1 230s, Step 2 250s, did not take step 3 but took comlex level 3
• LORs - all 4 hopefully strong, 3 from GI faculty, 2 nationally known faculty, 1 really personal letter, 1 PD

I know it's harder for DOs to match, hoping to overcome that with my CV.