Gastroenterology is the branch of medicine focused on the digestive system and its disorders.
Diseases affecting the gastrointestinal tract, which include the organs from mouth upto anus, along the alimentary canal, hepatobiliary systemare the focus of this speciality. Physicians practicing in this field are called gastroenterologists. They have usually completed aboutfive years of medical education, a year-long internship, three years of an internal medicine residency, andthree years in the gastroenterology superspeciality training . Gastroenterologists perform a number of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures including colonoscopy, endoscopy, endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP), endoscopic ultrasound and liver biopsy. We had completed a “fourth-year” (although this is often their seventh year of graduate medical education) in transplant hepatology, advanced endoscopy, inflammatory bowel disease, Motility.