Pediatric Gastroenterology

Program Description: 

Pediatric gastrointestinal, liver, and nutritional diseases are important diseases that threaten lives of millions of children worldwide. For example, according to available information, three millions of children annually die due to diarrheal diseases in the world and malnutrition causes 50% of under-five deaths. Therefore, scientific service centers around the world should train the required subspecialists to provide optimum services for these diseases. Since 1997 that the American Pediatric Gastroenterological Association was funded in Philadelphia, many years passed until the Pediatric Gastroenterology fellowship commenced. Since then, a significant progress was made in diagnosis and management of pediatric gastroenterology diseases. In Iran, this course was established with no official curriculum in 1989. In 2008, the Council for Graduate Medical Education began developing specialty and subspecialty training curricula. Therefore, a committee was formed for development of pediatric gastroenterology curriculum. 

Definition

Pediatric gastroenterology fellowship is a subspecialty of pediatrics, and the graduates obtain the necessary knowledge, attitudes, and skills in the areas of prevention, diagnosis, and management of pediatric gastrointestinal and liver diseases, patient care, and child nutrition, and will provide services to the community. In addition, they will employ their experiences and knowledge for educating people on related subjects and science production in the relevant specialized field.

Objectives:

1.To train sub specialists who are scientifically update, competent, sensitive to the problems of country, and committed to professionalism and who will provide the society with their knowledge and skills in the areas of prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and care of patients with gastrointestinal, liver, and nutritional diseases, and education and research in the relevant fields.

2.In the next 10 years, we will be among the top countries in the Middle East in this field.

This program aims to provide training regarding diagnosis, treatment, research and teaching of gastroentrology diseases in children as well as training in the following procedural Skills (Diagnostic-Therapeutic Procedures): 

• Upper endoscopy
• Rectosigmoidoscopy
• Full colonoscopy
• Polypectomy
• Sclerotherapy
• Anorectal manometry
• Esophagus PH measurement
• Abdominal paracentesis
• Liver biopsy
• Banding of esophageal varices 
• Removing foreign objects from the esophagus, stomach, and duodenum
• Osophageal dilatation

Duration:

Program Duration : 2 years