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Gastroenterology: Resident / Student Reading List

This list is made for Internal Medicine residents and medical students rotating through Gastroenterology. The topics listed below are intended to cover common consult scenarios you will encounter during your rotation either as an inpatient or outpatient consultation. Hepatology topics are not covered in this section as this is a separate rotation with its own reading list. We recommend you read consensus guidelines to gain an understanding of the basics before you read any clinical trials. Some of the guidelines are outdated so you may want to supplement your reading with a useful resource such as UpToDate.

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Achalasia

Diagnosis and management of achalasia. American College of Gastroenterology Practice Parameter Committee (1999)

Acute Pancreatitis

AGA Institute Medical Position Statement on Acute Pancreatitis (2007)

Barrett's Esophagus

American Gastroenterological Association Medical Position Statement on the Management of Barrett's Esophagus (2011)

Celiac Disease

AGA Institute Medical Position Statement on the Diagnosis and Management of Celiac Disease (2006)

Constipation

American Gastroenterological Association medical position statement: Guidelines on constipation (2000)

Crohn's disease

Management of Crohn's disease in adults.

Chronic diarrhea

American Gastroenterological Association medical position statement: Guidelines for the evaluation and management of chronic diarrhea (1999)

Diverticular Disease

Diagnosis and management of diverticular disease of the colon in adults. Ad Hoc Practice Parameters Committee of the American College of Gastroenterology (1999)

Dyspepsia

American Gastroenterological Association Medical Position Statement: Evaluation of Dyspepsia (2005)

Dysphagia

American Gastroenterological Association medical position statement on management of oropharyngeal dysphagia (1999)

Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD)

American Gastroenterological Association Medical Position Statement on the Management of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (2008)

Helicobacter pylori

American College of Gastroenterology guideline on the management of Helicobacter pylori infection (2007)

Irritable Bowel Syndrome

American Gastroenterological Association medical position statement: Irritable bowel syndrome (2002)

Malnutrition (Subjective global assessment)

What is subjective global assessment of nutritional status? (1987)

Microscopic Colitis

Microscopic colitis syndrome--a review article. (2005)

Nausea & Vomitting

American Gastroenterological Association medical position statement: Nausea and vomiting (2001)

Pancreatic cysts

ACG practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of neoplastic pancreatic cysts (2007)

Short Bowel Syndrome

American Gastroenterological Association medical position statement: Short bowel syndrome and intestinal transplantation (2003)
Gastroenterology Volume 124, Issue 4 , Pages 1105-1110, April 2003

Ulcerative Colitis

Ulcerative Colitis Practice Guidelines in Adults: American College of Gastroenterology, Practice Parameters Committee (2010)

Bleeding

Lower GI bleeding

Management of the adult patient with acute lower gastrointestinal bleeding. American College of Gastroenterology. Practice Parameters Committee (1998)

Obscure GI bleeding

American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Institute Medical Position Statement on Obscure Gastrointestinal Bleeding (2007)

Upper GI Bleeding

International consensus recommendations on the management of patients with nonvariceal upper gastrointestinal bleeding (2010)

Variceal bleeding

Prevention and management of gastroesophageal varices and variceal hemorrhage in cirrhosis (2007)

Colorectal Cancer Screening