17 WORLD GASTROENTEROLOGY NEWS OCTOBER 2014 Editorial | Expert Point of View | Gastro 2015: AGW/WGO | WDHD News | WGO & WGOF News | WGO Global Guidelines | Calendar of Events International TCT Wolverhampton The standard TCT involves six dele-gates over two days with theory, model training and then supervised, cri-tiqued, training of trainees performing colonoscopy on patients. The course is lively, very interactive, challenging, but enjoyable. Delegates gain a structured, insightful approach to training based on validated educational training methods, and a simple approach to colonoscopy training which emphasizes techniques including loop resolution and maximal mucosal visualization. For the WGO course, we held an expanded TCT over the first two days, and then a taster session of various courses including therapeutic model training and hands-on EMR training. Two video-linked endoscopy rooms were utilized, and model training on synthetic and animal tissue models was undertaken in our skills lab. The WGO course was lively and enjoyable, and both the delegates and faculty learned from each other. Some of the aspects of communica-tion skills and trainee feedback were challenging, but very informative for all concerned. The atmosphere during the course was very positive and often lighthearted. Especially after a couple of enjoyable social evenings, friend-ships were made and this only served to enhance the learning experience. It was appreciated that the current UK TCT is quite complex to teach, but that there were important fundamen-tal aspects that could be adapted for use in a variety of training environ-ments internationally. Looking forward The BSG, JAG, and WGO remain keen to work together internationally to develop endoscopy training. JAG and WGO have valuable educational resources that can be shared and JAG’s web-based training tools could be adapted for low-resource settings. We are currently looking at a program of work to incorporate aspects of UK endoscopy training methodology into the WGO training centers, and will be supporting this internationally with UK faculty. We are all excited by this prospect and look forward to a long and productive partnership. References 1. Bowles CJ, Leicester R, Romaya C et al. A prospective study of colo-noscopy in the UK today: are we adequately prepared for national colorectal cancer screening tomor-row? Gut 2004;53:277-83 2. Gavin DR, Valori RM, Anderson J et al. The national colonoscopy au-dit: a nationwide assessment of the quality and safety of colonoscopy in the UK. Gut 2013;62:242-49 Websites West Midlands Endoscopy Training Centre https://www.jets.nhs.uk/ Centre/Default.aspx?SiteId=10 Joint Advisory Group on GI Endos-copy http://www.thejag.org.uk/ Home.aspx# JAG Endoscopy Training System, JETS http://www.jets.nhs.uk/
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