WGO Train the Trainers Workshop 2015 Taipei, Taiwan - Ari F. Syam, MD, PhD, FACP - Hasan Maulahela, MD

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28 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 Ari F. Syam, MD, PhD, FACP Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine Universitas Indonesia Jakarta, Indonesia Hasan Maulahela, MD Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine Universitas Indonesia Jakarta, Indonesia The authors at the National Palace Museum. The authors at the top spinning team building activity. In April 2015 we joined the WGO Train the Trainers (TTT) program in Taipei, Taiwan. It was one of the most unforgettable experiences for us as gastroenterology trainers in Indonesia. This program allowed us to learn more about our teaching methods in gastroenterology, which we do routinely in our practice. Also, this program allowed us to learn other perspectives from different countries. The Group Discussion Group discussion is one of the most effective ways of learning in adult education. It involves the trainer and the learner. During TTT, as partici-pants we experienced for ourselves the group discussion process. During breakout sessions, we were assigned to small groups (which are comprised of diverse nationalities) and were given specific tasks about each topic in a set period of time. We all came from dif-ferent backgrounds, but surprisingly each group came up with a good re-sult for the presentation. This process allowed us to experience the nature of group development from form-ing, storming, norming, performing, adjourning to mourning. Evidence Based Medicine and Critical Appraisal Currently there are an abundant number of publications in the field of gastroenterology. As trainers and clini-cians we need to sort which study will benefit our patients. Evidence Based Medicine is the approach that we must take. In TTT we were trained to make a critical appraisal of a study and also to design a good clinical


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