Training Committee

MEMBERS

Nabil F . Fayad, MD, FACG, Chair Mohannad Abou Saleh, MD Sushil K . Ahlawat, MD Badr Al-Bawardy, MD Mohammad Bilal, MD Jason M . Brown, MD Chad M . Burski, MD Victor Chedid, MD Marta L . Davila, MD, FACG Rabia A . De Latour, MD Amaninder Jeet S . Dhaliwal, MD Andrew Dikman, MD Scott R . Douglas, MD Adam C . Ehrlich, MD, MPH, FACG Derrick D . Eichele, MD Hala Fatima, MD Sean Fine, MD Fritz Francois, MD, FACG Stephanie L . Hansel, MD, FACG Zachary C . Junga, MD Jennifer Katz, MD Tossapol Kerdsirichairat, MD Melissa Latorre, MD, MS David Limsui, MD, FACG Gautam Naresh Mankaney, MD Neal A . Mehta, MD Thomas E . Mellor, DO Rozina Mithani, MD Meir Mizrahi, MD Farah Monzur, MD Rishi D . Naik, MD Elizabeth R . Paine, MD, FACG Marianna Papademetriou, MD Parth J . Parekh, MD Shreya Raja, MD Abbas H . Rupawala, MD George Salem, MD Sergio A . Sanchez-Luna, MD Kaveh Sharzehi, MD C . Roberto Simons Linares, MD Shelini R . Sooklal, MD Kaartik Soota, MD Indu Srinivasan, MD Adam C . Stein, MD Anne G . Tuskey, MD, FACG Sarah B . Umar, MD Mukund Venu, MD, FACG David W . Victor, MD, FACG Alina Wong, MD Eugene F . Yen, MD, MBA, FACG

RESPONSIBILITIES AS STATED IN THE ACG BYLAWS

This Committee shall be responsible for coordinating activities, programs and outreach relating to training programs and trainee members of the College .

OBJECTIVES

1 . To explore opportunities to encourage more participation by fellows-in-training in ACG . 2 . To develop meetings and educational events for trainees . 3 . To continue to update and expand the Trainees Section of the

ACG website . 4 . To promote mentoring of trainees by the College’s members . 5 . To encourage the networking of trainees amongst each other and faculty at ACG meetings . 6 . To encourage more interest and guidance among Internal

Medicine residents in a future career in Gastroenterology and

Hepatology .

COMMITTEE REPORT

Postgraduate Course Trainees Luncheon The popular Trainees’ Luncheon at the Annual Meeting will resume this year on Sunday, October 24th . The luncheon will feature a faculty panel to discuss “Gastroenterology Beyond the Clinic . ” Nabil F. Fayad, MD, FACG

The panel will include Sunanda V . Kane, MD, MSPH, FACG, Folasade P . May, MD, PhD, MPhil, and Patrick E . Young, MD, FACG, discussing community involvement and diversity, legislative and advocacy efforts, and mentorship and committees’ involvement .

GI Jeopardy

This year will mark the nineteenth year of the GI Jeopardy competition, which remains very successful and more and more popular among trainees . The online preliminary (pre-test) round of GI Jeopardy ran early-July through early-August and 149 GI training programs participated . This preliminary competition resulted in 5 teams being invited to the live competition, based on the number of questions correctly answered and, if necessary, the amount of time spent taking the test . The finalists this year are Baylor College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science (Jacksonville), Scripps Clinic / Scripps Green Hospital, University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics and University of North Carolina Hospitals .

Each of these programs was invited to designate two competitors for the final round on Saturday, October 23rd . Qualifying teams received airfare and housing for the Las Vegas meeting . The winning team members from the live Jeopardy competition will each receive a $1,000 travel grant toward the 2022 Annual Meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina . We expect another spirited competition this year with audience participation questions, so come prepared to help out during the live competition!

TRAINING COMMITTEE (cont .)

2nd Year Fellows Course

The annual ACG 2nd Year Fellows Course will resume in January 2022 in the Washington, D .C . area, after its cancellation in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic . It will be chaired by Adam C . Ehrlich, MD, MPH, FACG, Elizabeth R . Paine, MD, FACG, and Abbas H . Rupawala, MD . Small group breakout sessions and general sessions will again be featured as well as Hands-on sessions in endoscopy, capsule endoscopy, and manometry . Expert speakers are invited, and the attendees are given one-on-one time with the experts, another unique mentoring opportunity . Program directors are invited in August to nominate a 2nd year fellow from their program to attend the course . After the nomination period closes, the College randomly selects 125 fellows and fully funds their travel for the course .

Board Review Question of the Week

The 2020/2021 Grand Prize Winner of the online Board Review Question of the Week competition was Dr . Amol Agarwal, MD, from the University of Maryland . He received a $1,000 travel grant toward the 2021 Annual Meeting in Las Vegas .

The current round of questions can be found in the Trainees section of the ACG website . The Grand Prize Winner will be determined by weekly participation and the highest number of correct answers to the questions (must answer at least 75% of the questions to be eligible) and will receive a $1,000 travel grant for the 2022 Annual Meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina .

To stimulate ongoing participation in the Question of the Week, we also offer a quarterly prize of free access to one of ACG’s Online Self-Assessment Tests for the participant who answers the most questions correctly each quarter (must answer at least 75% of the questions each quarter to be eligible) .

Online Resources for Residents

Dr . Mohammad Bilal is leading the Committee’s efforts to create an online resource center for GI fellowship applicants . The webpage was added on May 1, 2021, to the Trainees section of the ACG website . This includes new resources for residents interested in GI fellowship and will guide them through the GI fellowship match and throughout the start of their fellowship training . In addition, the subcommittee held a Virtual Grand Rounds webinar on May 3, 2021, with over 450 attendees, to provide guidance to prospective applicants into the Match application process .

Online Career Resources for GI Trainees

Dr . Meir Mizrahi is leading the Committee’s effort to expand ACG’s online resources for GI trainees during fellowship and entering practice . The subcommittee is working on the content of the website page, aimed at offering online career resources for trainees . These resources will cover four broad categories: 1 . Practice Models: Private Practice vs Academics; 2 . Job Application Process; 3 . Financial Planning; 4 . Transition from Trainee to Attending . The goal is to add the page to the ACG website in the Trainees section by the end of 2021 .

Emotional Intelligence Curriculum

Drs . Sara Ancello, Divya Bhatt and Uchenna Agbim collaborated with the Training Committee to develop an Emotional Intelligence Curriculum . The curriculum includes a series of modules on the ACG Education Universe, which were launched in November 2020 . A Virtual Grand Rounds webinar was held on November 12, 2020 to promote the program, and was successful with over 300 attendees .

Trainee Mentoring Program

In conjunction with the Women in Gastroenterology Committee, the Training Committee will continue with the Mentoring Program . The program’s objective is to provide residents and fellows in training access to faculty from diverse practice models, academic departments, and geographic regions .

The program will continue to foster casual dialogue between mentors and mentees, while affording residents and trainees the opportunity to gain valuable guidance and career advice from faculty not accessible to them in their training programs .

Virtual Grand Rounds – Career Edition

In conjunction with the Women in Gastroenterology Committee, the Training Committee launched a new Virtual Grand Rounds series geared to trainees and junior faculty . The first webinar, “Work Life Balance,” took place on February 17, 2021 . Sessions are held once a month (typically the third Wednesday of the month) and feature a 20-minute expert talk, followed by a 40-minute Q&A session with up to 4 panelists .

ACG Case Reports Journal

The ACG Case Reports Journal (ACGCRJ) is a peer-reviewed, openaccess journal publishing high-quality, interesting gastroenterology and hepatology case reports . Edited by GI fellows, it is published bi-weekly online for free to all readers . In addition, there are no submission or publication fees for authors . Publications are indexed on PubMed, PubMed Central, EBSCO, EMBASE, Google Scholar, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), and Web of Science’s Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) . ACGCRJ is very popular and will continue to afford GI trainees the opportunity to gain experience with publishing cases and reviewing manuscripts . We are currently publishing volume 8 .