Bayhealth starts gastroenterology fellowship in Dover, Milford [Video]

DOVER — A new gastroenterology fellowship is on the horizon for Bayhealth and its future medical professionals to grow available programming while meeting the needs of Delaware’s increasingly aging population.

The program will operate in two of Delaware’s three counties where the nonprofit hospital system contends that much of the population from both areas remains underserved. New fellows involved in the program will rotate between the new Bayhealth Sussex in Milford and Bayhealth Hospital, Kent Campus in Dover, formerly known as Kent General Hospital.

Along with professionals from Bayhealth, fellows will also learn from Einstein Hospital in Philadelphia with which Bayhealth has an affiliation for years, according to Gastroenterology Fellowship Program Director Dr. Bhavin Dave. The Pennsylvania-based hospital handles almost all of Bayhealth’s complex live cases and liver transplant needs, he said. 

The doctors in the fellowship program will have the opportunity to train in more complex hepatology cases, or those that deal with the liver, …