Congrats!! So happy for you. Great achievement 💪🏽 🤩

How competitive is GI fellowship match?

⭐️Objectively the most difficult medicine subspecialty to match in! ⭐️

▪️239 GI/Liver programs in NRMP
▪️GI had 1064 for 690 positions
▪️35% unmatched
▪️More competitive than 🫀🫁

Have a strategy and demonstrate GRIT!

How to remember hunger hormones 😅 #GIMnemonics

Ghrelin: Ghrowling stomach (⬆️ hunger)

Leptin: When you’ve leptinough to eat (⬆️ satiety)

This is a very dramatic case of pan erosive esophagitis, denuding esophageal varices insetting of end stage cirrhosis and coagulopathy.

A terribly challenging case.
One of the worst ever I’ve encountered.

#GITwitter

⭐️✨Brilliant talk by Dr. SandraQuezadaMD on facilitating DEI in GI, especially from a GI workforce perspective!

🔸Only 18% Women
🔸 4.4% AA
🔸 6.7% latinos

Grateful for her wonderful work creating opportunities and change in the field !

#EbMed

Special 💫 moments from this weekends Scrubs & Heels Leadership Summit in Miami ☀️

Many superhumans that uplift and empower those around them! Kudos 👏🏽

Pictured here Aline Charabaty, MD, FACG, AGAF Aruj Choudhry Keshia Suhail MD Chau Che, MD Arcelia Guerson-Gil, MD

#scrubsandheels24

📝 👇🏼

Love it. 🌟📚 #classic #saymore #ScrubsNHeels24
Shah Rukh Khan

More:

1. Ask (for that raise…every year- you are not greedy & won’t be fired for asking)
2. Do your research- pay, meeting prep
3. Interview at new potential job every 1-2 years- keep that muscle fit
4. Update CV, resume Q6 months
5. Reframe “no” as “not yet”

Scrubs & Heels

So great to see everyone at #ScrubsNHeels24 ☀️ 💕💃🏽

Successful negotiating strategies from Anita Afzali MD, MPH, MHCM, FACG, AGAF to get a “yes” after you hear a “no”

Be prepared with a:
1️⃣ SWAT analysis
2️⃣ Business plan
3️⃣ Value proposition

They’re expecting it!

Another great conference #ScrubsNHeels24 with so many pearls of wisdom. Very excited to meet up with old friends and make new ones.
Anita Afzali MD, MPH, MHCM, FACG, AGAF Aline Charabaty, MD, FACG, AGAF

Proud 🥹of these women (budding GIs) Shaina Sekhri, MD Romy Chamoun, MD Lesley Battick for an incredible talk about “Networking” & “Delivering the Elevator Pitch”

So many great questions w/ input by attending faculty Dawn Sears, MD, FACG Soniaknarang & myself!

Scrubs & Heels #ScrubsandHeels24

A sunny kickstart to the 3rd Scrubs & Heels summit!! Excited to see everyone ☀️👩🏽‍⚕️📚

‼️PEth is the A1C of alcohol

🔹Very specific: rare low positive can occur in patients who have received blood transfusion from someone actively 🍻

🔹Level of 48 or ⬆️ is associated with ⬆️ drinking

🔹Tell your patient you are ordering it

GUILD Conference Elliot Tapper Rohit Loomba

Snowy weekend in - do I board prep or dress my cat as⛄️??
❄️📚 #balance
#GItwitter - in all seriousness, any board review resources/course recs people have found particularly helpful?? Any insight much appreciated. :) Currently using acg questions.

Big clots are still a big problem in modern endoscopy. Here is a method to turn a flexible/rigidizing overtube into a large suction attachment to evacuate clots rapidly from the stomach.
#GITwitter Douglas G. Adler MD, FASGE, FACG, AGAF Rashmi Advani, MD, ABOM-D Tarun Rustagi Neil Sharma, M.D. FASGE, FACG, AGAF SAGES Is In Cleveland 2024!

#GIBowl #NPO

Here's a wrap on this week's case - please bookmark and save for review! Created by Board Member Sanya Goswami, MD
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#MedEd

Hot take: Methotrexate does not cause liver fibrosis

It’s ok to be cautious (periodic fibroscan). It’s ok to use MTX initiation as a trigger to look for fibrosis in at risk people (eg diabetes). But Time to turn the page
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36702175/
Edmond Atallah #livertwitter