WGO La Paz Training Center: XII International Course on Advances in Gastroenterology and Digestive Endoscopy - Guido Villa-Gómez Roig, MD, MWGO
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WGO La Paz Training Center: XII International Course
on Advances in Gastroenterology and Digestive
Endoscopy
Guido Villa-Gómez Roig, MD, MWGO
Director, WGO La Paz Training Center
Instituto de Gastroenterología Boliviano - Japonés
La Paz, Bolivia
BACKGROUND OF LA PAZ WGO
TRAINING CENTER
In 2005, the Bolivian-Japanese
Institute of Gastroenterology (IGBJ)
of La Paz was inaugurated by the
World Gastroenterology Organisation
(WGO), in an agreement signed with
the Ministry of Health of Bolivia, as
the first Training Center of Gastro-enterology
and Digestive Endoscopy
for Latin America, on the basis of its
health care background, as a teaching
and research institution, that had been
achieved in the national and interna-tional
context.
The La Paz WGO Training Center
develops training programs in the
specialty, focused on young specialists
in Latin America with the following
objectives:
• Contribute to improve aspects of
health care, teaching and research
of digestive diseases in the region,
through annual training programs
in gastroenterology and endosco-py,
as well as other developments
Endoscopy in Montero.
that impact the development of
the specialty.
• Promote mechanisms of interac-tion
between international and
regional specialists in the fields of
gastroenterology, endoscopy, and
hepatology, incorporating new
generations of specialists, as the
core of the program.
• Contribute to strengthening the
concept of medicine with social vi-sion,
according to regional realities
and needs.
Under these principles, two programs
are developed annually:
• International Course on Advances
in Gastroenterology and Digestive
Endoscopy
• Individual Training in Therapeutic
Endoscopy
XII INTERNATIONAL COURSE
ON ADVANCES IN GASTRO-ENTEROLOGY
AND DIGESTIVE
ENDOSCOPY
Program
With its twelfth iteration, the Interna-tional
Course expanded its academic
activities and social action, taking
them (besides La Paz) to Santa Cruz
de la Sierra.
La Paz, April 6 to 9: Workshop
on New Trends and Innovations
in Gastroenterology and Digestive
Endoscopy. Academic activities were
held in the Bolivian-Japanese Institute
of Gastroenterology (IGBJ).
Objective: Present the scope of
current Latin American special-ist
knowledge and development
of central aspects of the specialty
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