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WORLD GASTROENTEROLOGY NEWS OCTOBER 2018
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Train the Trainers Advanced
Workshop in Portugal
Guilherme Macedo, MD, PhD, FASGE, AGAF, FACG,
FAASLD
WGO Treasurer and Director, WGO Porto Training Center
The Second Edition of the Advanced
Train the Trainers Course in Leadership
& Management was held in
Porto, Portugal 25-26 June, 2018.
Again, the workshop proved how
useful and enlightening it is for those
gastroenterologists involved in clinical
practice, teaching, research and administration.
With vivid discussion of
all the topics included in the modules,
we went through a vast array of concepts
of leadership, communication
skills, conflicts management, planning
and budgeting, which provided meaningful
discussion and interaction,
applying a wide range of examples to
learn with, in a learning environment
that provided a sense of everyday real
life problems and solving strategies
solutions.
As per usual, diverse and multiple
academic practices, and cultural
backgrounds were important trumps
and the friendly attitude towards an
appropriate learning environment is a
Revisiting experiences and reflecting on the “roads not
taken”, and on the ones we have decided to follow, is also
of crucial importance in a leadership and management
dedicated course.
Participants and faculty
perfect melting pot enabling everyone
to come closer with an eagerness to
learn and improve their own skills
in communication. The participants
were very committed and brought
up very interesting challenges to the
passionate faculty. In fact, acknowledging
diversity, equity and inclusion
in our minds throughout the course,
we were able to understand how to
build high impact leadership behavior
and how we can help people to add
value and make them feel valued. It is
extremely rewarding, from the Faculty
point of view, to keep on receiving
truly emotional testimonies, praising
how everyone was feeling supported
and oriented, and specially, how
everyone was able to establish a framework
for their own future development.
The Advanced Course provides
also another interesting insight which
relates to the fact that every attendee
has already been primed in previous
standard course, so many positive feelings
come across with the gathering
and meeting of former participants,
that almost always refer the huge impact
the previous course had on their
professional, social and personal lives.
Revisiting experiences and reflecting
on the “roads not taken”, and on the
ones we have decided to follow, is also
of crucial importance in a leadership
and management dedicated course.
The advanced courses are evolving,
and while they should keep their
great virtues they also should be
reshaped or adapted to the incoming
educational tools. This represents an
important challenge and task that we
have to face. This will be the proper
way to nourish the plants that faculties
and attendees, in different times,
have been seeding. We must never
forget that education implies not only
acknowledging and welcoming the
TTT workshop