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PENNSYLVANIA SOCIETY OF GASTROENTEROLOGY / NEWSLETTER
President’s Message / David L. Diehl, MD, FACP, FASGE
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The Importance of Mentoring The PSG is launching a mentorship program for GI Fellows and early career GI physicians. We will be reaching out to those of you who would like to participate in this project.
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Many of us have benefitted from mentors. Perhaps some of us have suffered for the lack of a mentor during our education or training. Mentors can have a lifelong impact on their trainees, but the relationship does not go in only one direction. Mentors can get as much benefit and satisfaction as their mentees can. Gastroenterology, like other areas of medical training is akin to a “guild”, where the experienced take the novice under their wing to train them in the arts of their chosen field. All GI fellows, including us way back when, had trainers and coaches that typically were staff gastroenterologists at our program. Many medical schools provide for mentor relationships, but this is less common in GI training. Certainly,
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attending physicians at one’s own training program work very hard to train GI fellows, but this is generally different from a mentoring relationship. I have been lucky enough to have some important mentors in my medical career. The first was assigned to me when I was a firstyear medical student. His name was Eugene “Skip” Felmar, MD and he was a Family Practice attending in the San Fernando Valley area of Southern California. I enjoyed going out to his office and shadowing him closely while he saw outpatients, rounded on inpatients, and did office procedures. Beyond gaining valuable insight into the practice of medicine, I found out why his nickname was “Skip” after he took me out on his sailboat which he kept docked at the Los Angeles harbor. Skip Felmar became a role model for me, and the mentor-mentee relationship was mutually rewarding. Another highly impactful mentor that I had was someone that I chose myself. Dick Kozarek, MD was (and continued on page 2
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