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May 1, 2023, 10 tweets

1/ Collated thread for new GI fellows

⭐️GI Fellow Resources ⭐️

▪️Websites
▪️Guidelines
▪️Apps
▪️Podcasts
▪️Textbooks
▪️Board study
▪️Social media

📲 bit.ly/3KwqCVG (hyperlinked 📄)

#GITwitter

2/ Advice for First Year Fellows

▪️Build management algorithms
▪️Read on 🔦, 🔬, 🩻
▪️Use 📚 study resources
▪️Register for ASGE first yr course
▪️Review basic anatomy
▪️Invest in GI endoscopy atlas
▪️Develop system of 🔬 tracking
▪️Mentor & network

🔗 giejournal.org/article/S0016-…

3/ Survive consult blocks!

▪️Have a system!
▪️Checklist for each 🆕 consult
▪️Talk to the consulting team
▪️Be brief
▪️Give specific recs
▪️Provide contingency plans

Art of Being a Consultant
🔗 jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai… @JAMA_current

See @Dr_Oubre for more documentation tips!

4/ Store & Access Reading/Guidelines

1️⃣ Get iPad + Apple ✏️
2️⃣ Download @GoodNotesApp
3️⃣ Download ACG, AGA, AASLD, & ASGE guidelines
4️⃣ Download GI NCCN guidelines
5️⃣ Other options
📲 DDSEP10/Plus
📲 Sleisenger & Fordtran's ch.
6️⃣ Quickly add other 📄

Syncs on all📱& 💻

6/ Organize management algorithms & snippets for quick reference

Many ways to do this.

I prefer @Apple Notes app due to universality.

▪️Easily searchable
▪️Easily add images
▪️👀 SAME algorithm 📸 every time
▪️Quickly add from #GITwitter
▪️Quickly share & AirDrop

7/ Note Annual GI Conferences & Deadlines

▪️@AmCollegeGastro
▪️@AASLDtweets Liver Meeting
▪️@DDWMeeting
▪️@GuildConference

Also be familiar with GI societies and their associated journals! 🧵👇

8/ Learn endoscopy!

▪️Invest in GI endoscopy atlas
🔗amzn.to/44bBiSs
▪️Fundamentals of 🔦
🔗amzn.to/3Aymtf9
▪️Watch SUTAB tip of the week
🔗bit.ly/3oLmZE6
▪️Have 1️⃣ learning objective daily
📸 see examples below 👇
▪️GET REPS!

9/ Navigate Year-by-Year

First year
▪️Get new skills
▪️Max efficiency
▪️Effective consult communication
▪️Clinical focus

Second year
▪️Clinical knowledge
▪️Mentorship
▪️Research
▪️Career planning

Third year
▪️Career decisions
▪️Advanced fellowships

🔗ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

10/10 @LiverFellow tips 👇

🔗docs.google.com/document/d/1Mr…

#GITwitter any others?

As a rising chief fellow, I’m trying to collate the best advice and resources.

@BilalMohammadMD
@drkeithsiau
@stevenbollipo
@GIreview
@GIscope_updates
@LizzieAbyMD
@ebtapper
@DrBloodandGuts

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