Are you just starting in your GI endoscopy career or wanting to learn a new skill and navigate a new opportunity?

The 5th edition of our training course Core Competency in GI Endoscopy is designed to introduce you to basic and advanced endoscopy skills and to continue from last year’s edition the development of network skills.

Our trainers are part of a global network of lifelong learners, care about trainees’ learning, are motivated to take risks, and actively reflect on how to best facilitate that learning.

Core Endoscopy Skills sessions within this course include:
• Basic and Advanced Colonoscopy;
• Basic and Complicated Polypectomy/EMR – Deconstruct the approach to en-bloc and piecemeal cold and hot snare polypectomy;
• ESD;
• Full-thickness resection (FTDR);
• Repair of Mucosal Defects: Endoscopic Closure of Gastrointestinal Perforations;
• Hemostasis;
• Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG);
• EUS FNA/FNB: basic tehnique of EUS FNA/FNB;
• EUS Collections Drainage using LAMS.

What you will learn:
• You will improve your basic and advanced navigation skills during hands-on colonoscopy;
• You will learn through hands-on sessions with multiple levels of feedback advanced techniques such as polypectomy, lifting, injection, clipping, biopsy, hemostasis, diagnostic and therapeutic EUS, etc.;
• You will receive theoretical information about the different endoscopic materials and coagulation principles;
• You will build practical skills that are in demand to become an endoscopy savvy and a clinical problem solver;
• You will refine your practice by becoming an emotionally intelligent communicator and a resilient endoscopist able to adapt to any situation.

Learning in communities strengthens the learning (Innovative Learning and Teaching: Experiments Across the Disciplines, Ilene D. Alexander and Robert K. Poch, 2017). Also, learning how to be in a relationship with one another is critically important for developing an appropriate response to health-related challenges. And how important relationships and communities are to effective higher education. Our course will continue the development of Network Skills with a module regarding communication toward more inclusive, just, and joyful learning and health-providing spaces.

Also, very important is to develop the skills for choosing and optimizing further medical therapy according to the endoscopic diagnosis in both organic and functional digestive diseases.

Join us on this learning journey to develop new ways of thinking, expand your skill set, and boost your confidence!