Hepatology Rotation

Diagnosis and management of common and uncommon liver conditions (eg. acute hepatitis, jaundice, cirrhosis, portal hypertension, pre-/post liver transplantation care)

The Gastroenterology Division at the University of Alberta provides inpatient and outpatient care for patients with acute and chronic gastrointestinal and liver problems. Inpatient (and urgent outpatient) care is provided by the following teams: GI Consults, Hepatology Consults, Endoscopy Service and 2 Wards. 

Elective Hepatology is primarily an inpatient service and you will work with the weekly Hepatology attending physician (and GI subspecialty resident or Hepatology fellow, as available). UAH is a large liver transplantation centre, therefore the Hepatology rotation will include consultation and management of patients pre- and post-liver transplant. 

The Hepatology Consult Service is responsible for hepatology consultations on patients admitted to the hospital, including ICU/CCU, and consultations for post-liver transplant patients from the Emergency. The consultation rotation will expose residents to a variety of practice styles and clinical approaches by the hepatologists of the GI Division and will in turn increase the resident's competence and confidence in managing a wide variety of common and uncommon liver problems. 

Residents and students are expected to conduct themselves professionally under the direction and at the discretion of the attending staff.  The resident will make progress notes according to a patient problem list.  At the end of each working day, the resident will sign out critically ill patients to the resident on call to ensure continuity of care (use of the Handoff Tool in Connect Care is strongly encouraged).