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Advanced GI MIS, and/or Comprehensive Flexible Endoscopy Fellowship Certification 

Defined category cases (mandatory):

Advanced GI MIS Fellowship: SAGES requires applicants to adopt the Advanced GI MIS Fellowship accreditation criteria. To adhere to the criteria, applicants are expected to obtain 150 Total Complex MIS Cases, with a minimum of the following defined category cases: Foregut (20), Bariatric (25), Inguinal Hernia (10), Ventral Hernia (10), Additional Complex MIS Cases (85). Comprehensive Flexible Endoscopy Fellowship:

01. The Fellowship must cover the educational content/curriculum for all 10 flexible endoscopy
entrustable professional activities (EPAs, see attached list)02. The Fellowship must provide a minimum of 150 flexible endoscopy procedures and meet the
following case volume mandates:
A. The cases must fall into the domain of at least 5 different procedural based EPAs (this
includes Flex Endo EPAs 3-10, as well as the Bariatric EPA “Endoscopic Bariatric
Interventions.”
B. There must be minimum of 10 cases in each of these 5 EPAs
C. There must be a minimum of 100 therapeutic endoscopy cases 3. The fellow must
successfully pass the Fundamentals of Endoscopic Surgery (FES) and the Fundamental
Use of Surgical Energy (FUSE) programs prior to completion of the fellowship
Flexible Endoscopy EPAs.

01. Sedation and Monitoring of Patients Undergoing Flexible Endoscopy
02. Endoscopy In The Patient With Surgically-Altered GI Tract Anatomy
03. Evaluation and Management of the Patient Requiring Advanced Tissue
Resection/Transection/Ablation
04. Evaluation and Management of Obstructing GI Tract Processes
05. Evaluation and Management of GI Tract Bleeding
06. Evaluation and Management of Partial and Full Thickness GI Tract Defects
07. Evaluation and Management of the Patient Requiring Submucosal or Translumenal
Endoscopy
08. Evaluation and Management of Patients with Pancreatico-Biliary Diseases
09. Evaluation and Management of a Patient Needing Complex Endoscopic Enteral
Access
10. Evaluation and Endoscopic Management of the Patient with Gastroesophageal Reflux

Advanced GI MIS and Comprehensive Flexible Endoscopy Fellowship: both #1 & #2 Fellowship cases numbers

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