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Advanced Endoscopy Fellowship

2024-2025 Advanced Endoscopy fellows with Dr. Tarek Sawas (center)

The advanced endoscopy fellowship started in 2006 and includes two trainees per year who have completed a categorical GI fellowship program. The fellow will be trained as both an advanced endoscopist and a pancreatobiliary consultant. The emphasis of the fellowship is to become proficient in all aspects of ERCP and diagnostic and therapeutic EUS.

  • Application Process

    Application Process

    The advanced fellow will need to be board eligible/certified and acquire a Texas state license to be able to serve as an Instructor and attending for general GI procedures. 

    This program participates in the ASGE Advanced Endoscopy Fellowship Match.

    International Applicants

    Recognizing that some of our most talented applicants are not permanent residents, we are committed to recruiting qualified international trainees. UT Southwestern accepts permanent residents or J-1 ECFMG sponsored visas. Unfortunately, the medical school does not sponsor H-1B visas.

  • Salaries and Benefits

    Salaries and Benefits

    Fellowship YearProgram YearSalary
    Fellowship Year 1 PGY4 $80,299
    Fellowship Year 2 PGY5 $84,095
    Fellowship Year 3 or more PGY6 $86,503
    Fellowship Year 4 PGY 7 $91,451

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  • Training Opportunities

    Fellows also will learn other endoscopic procedures including enteral stents, endoscopic mucosal resection, complex stricture dilation, endoscopy requiring fluoroscopic guidance, complex polypectomy, Barrett’s ablation techniques, fistula closure, device-assisted deep enteroscopy among other procedures. The advanced fellow will lead a biliary consult service and be assisted by other fellows and residents in inpatient consultation and follow-up of patients.

    Training is primarily at Parkland Hospital and William P. Clements Jr. University Hospital. Fellows will also perform some routine endoscopic procedures throughout the week and may supervise general GI fellows.

    The academic mission of the GI Fellowship extends to the Advanced Endoscopy Fellowship as well with a requirement for the fellow to complete a clinical research project during the one-year fellowship. The project will be presented at the end of the year in a formal research presentation to the division. Also, the fellow must present the research at a national meeting or complete a manuscript before the end of the fellowship.

Contact Us

Digestive and Liver Diseases

UT Southwestern Medical Center
5323 Harry Hines Blvd.
Dallas, TX 75390-9151

Phone: 214-648-3986
Fax: 214-648-3985
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Dr. Tarek Sawas

Tarek Sawas, M.D.

Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine
Program Director

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Evelina Quintanilla

GME Program Coordinator I

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