Surgical Gastroenterology :

Surgical Gastroenterology is a sub-speciality dealing with the management of diseases related to the human gastrointestinal tract involving the organs namely oesophagus, stomach, pancreas, liver, gall bladder and biliary tract, small and large intestine, rectum and anus. It is a well recognized specialty today.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 to anus, along the alimentarycanal, are the focus of this speciality. Physicians practicing in this field are called gastroenterologists.They have usually completed about eight years of pre-medical and medical education, a year-long internship (if this is not a part of the residency), three years of an internal medicine residency, and two to threeyears in the gastroenterology fellowship. Gastroenterologists perform a number of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures including colonoscopy, endoscopy, endoscopic retrograde cholangiancreatography (ERCP), endoscopic  ultrasound and liver biopsy. Some gastroenterology trainees will complete a "fourth-year" (although this is  often their seventh year of graduate medical education) in transplant hepatology, advanced endoscopy,  inflammatory bowel disease, motility or other topics.