Report of the Multisociety Task Force on GI Training

In 2008, the major gastroenterology and hepatology societies—American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD), American College of Gastroenterology (ACG), American Gastroenterological Association (AGA), and American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE)—created a 9-member task force to evaluate the current gastroenterology training model and make recommendations as to how it might be changed to better accommodate trainees' interests in specific areas of gastroenterology and hepatology practice. Each society appointed 2 representatives to the committee and agreed that Dr Lawrence S. Friedman, not representing any society, would chair the committee. The AGA agreed to provide administrative support for the group.

Abbreviations used in this paper: AASLD, American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, ABIM, American Board of Internal Medicine, ACG, American College of Gastroenterology, AGA, American Gastroenterological Association, ASGE, American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, IBD, inflammatory bowel disease

⁎ Harvard Medical School, Tufts University School of Medicine, Newton-Wellesley Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital

† Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center

‡ University of Michigan

§ University of Texas Southwestern Medical School

∥ Mayo Clinic College of Medicine at Rochester

¶ Albert Einstein Medical Center, Thomas Jefferson University

⁎⁎ Medical College of Virginia Campus, Virginia Commonwealth University

†† Mayo Clinic College of Medicine at Rochester

‡‡ Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Digestive Disease Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation

This article is being published jointly in 2009 in American Journal of Gastroenterology, Gastroenterology, Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, and Hepatology.

Conflicts of interest The authors disclose no conflicts.

PII: S0016-5085(09)01155-X

doi:10.1053/j.gastro.2009.07.003

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