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WORLD GASTROENTEROLOGY NEWS APRIL 2018
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and training activities that WGO has
become a leader of global education in
the field of digestive health.
WGO Training Centers: Developing
an Endoscopy Service in Limited
Resource Settings
Prof. Desmond
Leddin.
Prof. Leddin’s
presentation
discussed how to
start and sustain
endoscopy services
in settings with
limited resources
with a focus on how
services were started
and sustained in Ethiopia, Bolivia,
and Myanmar.
Since 2001, over 3,400 professionals
have received training through the
various educational programs offered
at the 23 WGO Training Centers.
Located primarily in developing
countries throughout the world,
each WGO Training Center provides
trainees with the opportunity to
enhance their skills and further their
education in gastroenterology, hepatology,
endoscopy, oncology, and GI
surgery. The Centers promulgate locally
relevant knowledge and develop
appropriate skills among medical
practitioners and health care workers
from low-resource countries to optimize
standards of patient care while
ensuring a focus on regionally-relevant
digestive disorders, and attempt to
reduce the “brain-drain” of highly
skilled practitioners from developing
countries by providing training close
to home.
WGO Train the Trainers: How Can I
Improve my Teaching Skills?
Prof. Damon
Bizos.
Prof. Damon Bizos’
presentation focused
on recognizing ways
to improve lectures,
small group
facilitation, and
teaching skills.
The Train the
Trainers (TTT)
program, developed by WGO,
exposes educators in gastroenterology,
hepatology, endoscopy, oncology,
and GI surgery to current educational
techniques and philosophies. It brings
together faculty and participants
from across the globe in an intensive
and interactive four-day workshop.
The workshop is characterized by
numerous hands-on sessions with
ample opportunity for discussion
and interchange. Train the Trainers
has proven to be a highly successful
method of disseminating teaching
skills to GI physicians who hold training
positions in their own countries.
Delegates are equipped with skills
which they can then implement in
their countries. Train the Trainers has
been enthusiastically received around
the world, providing an excellent
forum for the exchange of ideas and
the establishment of contacts between
various countries in an environment
which is conducive to learning and
interaction.
WGO Guidelines: “Why Cascades?”
Prof. Greger
Lindberg.
The WGO Guidelines
portion of the
symposium – “Why
Cascades?” -- was
presented by Prof.
Greger Lindberg,
Chair of the WGO
Global Guidelines
Committee. Prof.
Lindberg’s presentation described the
use of the Guidelines Cascades Model
and the application of WGO Guidelines
in regions of variable resources.
The WGO Global Guidelines Library
contains 24 practice guidelines
written from a viewpoint of global
applicability. WGO Guidelines are
available in English, French, Mandarin,
Portuguese, Russian and Spanish
and can be found in the Journal of
Clinical Gastroenterology (JCG) and
on the WGO website (www.worldgastroenterology.
org).
WGO Global Guidelines are
unique because they utilize “cascades”
which provide various diagnosis and
evidence-based treatment options that
are scalable to available local resources
and infrastructure in countries with
varying resources. Cascades make the
WGO Guidelines globally applicable
by identifying multiple ways of
achieving the best possible outcome
by taking the available resources
into account. WGO cascades are
Train the Trainers has
proven to be a highly
successful method of
disseminating teaching
skills to GI physicians who
hold training positions in
their own countries.
Prof. Lindberg pointed
out that 18 of the 24
WGO Guidelines feature
cascades.
Since 2001, over 3,400
professionals have
received training through
the various educational
programs offered at the 23
WGO Training Centers.
Professor Desmond Leddin presenting on
WGO Training Centers.