26 WORLD GASTROENTEROLOGY NEWS SEPTEMBER 2015 Editorial | Expert Point of View | Gastro 2015: AGW/WGO | WDHD News | WGO & WGOF News | WGO Global Guidelines | Calendar of Events WGO Train the Trainers Workshop 2015 Taipei, Taiwan Marco Arrese, MD President Chilean Society of Gastroenterology Santiago, Chile A new edition of the exceptional Train the Trainers (TTT) April 13- 16, 2015 WGO course was held in Taipei, Taiwan at the Chang Gung Health and Culture Village. The organizing committee of the World Gastroenterology Organisation (WGO) and the local Gastroentero-logical Society of Taiwan (GEST) prepared an excellent setting for this nice workshop. This TTT 2015 was an interesting and intensive four-day course with the 17-module workshop focused on improving the abilities and education-al skills of educators in the fields of gastroenterology and hepatology. This activity brought together renowned faculty members of the WGO (trainers) and participants (trainees) from different countries and settings around the world, in an enabling en-vironment to improve their potential for teaching. This was an interactive workshop, with lectures, small group discussion, and hands-on sessions, giving the opportunity to everybody for an open discussion on many topics related to education, evidence-based medicine, critical appraisal, publica-tions, trial design, credentialing, pro-fessionalism and interpersonal skills and teamwork. The size of the activity is limited to around 50 participants, who are nominated by their member GI societies. The faculty for this 2015 course included: James Toouli (Australia), Damon Bizos (South Africa), David Bjorkman (USA), Kelly Burak (Canada), Amy Oxentenko From left to right: Drs. Damon Bizos (TTT Chair, WGO), James Toouli (President WGO), Rodrigo Zapata (Chile), Marco Arrese (Chile), Jaw-Town Lin (President GI Society Taiwan), Cheng-Tang Chiu (Organizing committee of TTT 2015). The winning group of the games, during TTT (Sweetsop group) with Dr. Bizos and Quigley. Rodrigo Zapata, MD Past President Chilean Society of Gastroenterology Santiago, Chile The Taiwan group of Trainers and Trainees with Drs. Damon Bizos (TTT Chair, WGO), James Toouli (President WGO), Jaw-Town Lin (President GI Society Taiwan), and Cheng-Tang Chiu (Organizing committee of TTT 2015). (USA), Eamonn Quigley (USA), Wei‑Kuo (Michael) Chang (Taiwan), Keng‑Liang (Kenny) Wu (Taiwan), Ming-Jen (Frank) Chen (Taiwan), Ming-Yao (Su) Su (Taiwan), Seng‑Kee (Paul) Chuah (Taiwan), and Ching‑Liang (Tony) Lu (Taiwan). Social activities included a visit to the National Palace Museum in Taipei (which houses the world’s largest collection of Chinese art treasures), a cultural evening dinner with par-ticipation of the trainees of many countries, and a farewell dinner. The first Train the Trainers work-shop was held on the island of Crete, Greece in April 2001. Since then, more than 900 trainees have partici-pated in some of these courses, and in many instances they have recre-ated their experience in their own
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