Introduction to Outpatient Clinical Hepatology

Catalog description

This course will introduce the student to clinical hepatology in an outpatient setting. The student will have an opportunity to observe patients with a wide variety of common esoteric diseases of the liver. The student will participate in patient evaluation, formulation of the differential diagnosis, laboratory evaluation and care of outpatients. The clinical experience will consist primarily of "one on one" discussions of patients seen in the outpatient setting. The student will work with GI faculty as well as GI subspecialty residents seeing patients with a variety of liver diseases.