The first year of GI fellowship can be a hard shift from residency. “I think the biggest challenge was transitioning from a third-year resident, where you feel very competent, to a first-year fellow, where you feel totally incompetent,” Achintya Singh, MD, told Gastroenterology & Endoscopy News. But the confidence level grows over time, he told us for our video series GI Fellows Chat, part of our Fellows Corner.
Dr. Singh, who is now a second-year fellow at MetroHealth and Case Western University, in Cleveland, also talked about his most interesting case so far—a patient fortuitously diagnosed with lymphoma during a colonoscopy—and his research, which focuses on ergonomics and workplace injury in endoscopy. A systematic review and meta-analysis that he presented at Digestive Disease Week 2023 found the prevalence of endoscopy-related injuries to be 64% (95% CI, 55.1%-74.4%; I2=98.2) (abstract Sa1146).
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—GEN Staff
