University at Buffalo (UB)
Hepatology
Strengthen your understanding of liver disease and develop the ability to recognize, diagnose and treat liver diseases routinely seen in an outpatient and follow-up setting.
Our hepatology rotation provides you with in-depth knowledge, appropriate for an internist, in hepatic disorders.
Experience Comprehensive Training
We’ll provide you with foundational knowledge in basic science aspects of hepatology, including physiology and pathophysiology of acute/chronic liver disease, anatomy of the hepatobiliary system, definition of hepatic segments, role of kupffer cells and ito cells in liver disease.
Through a beneficial combination of outpatient clinic experience, didactic conferences and personal reading and research, you’ll have a special focus on chronic hepatitis C and alcoholic liver disease.
Further, this rotation will give you a better understanding of treating and managing risk factors including opiate use disorder. The faculty members guiding you in the hepatology clinic are certified and trained in the treatment of opioid use disorder, and they can help you gain knowledge about using buprenorphine to treat opioid dependence.
The rotation will expose you to patients and situations that:
- increase your understanding of risk factors, screening, diagnosis, treatment options and follow-up for hepatitis B and C — and the impact of primary care physicians in case identification
- familiarize you with immunizations to prevent hepatitis B and C in patients with chronic liver disease
- boost your ability to diagnose and treat patients with chronic liver disease
- increase your awareness of complications and side-effects of viral hepatitis therapies
- enable you to diagnose, evaluate and manage acute and chronic hepatitis
- increase your knowledge about autoimmune hepatitis, peripheral markers of liver failure, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis
You can expect to gain experience with depression screening in patients with liver disease, longterm follow-up of patients with cirrhosis, and various clinical scoring systems in hepatology.
During the rotation, you will be able to talk with patients about lifestyle modification strategies for alcohol, substance use and weight management.
Length of Elective
Undertake a weekly half-day session during your second year.
Training Site
Faculty
This rotation is overseen by:
