Short Description of the Course

The Course aims to provide participants with the pedagogic skills to instruct beginners in colonoscopy during performing live endoscopic procedures. It provides a framework for effective teaching of endoscopy and emphasizes the importance of conscious competence of one's own colonoscopy technique when instructing others. The course is intensive, interactive, and practical.

Why should practicing Colonoscopists apply?

The main reason for the above is generally a poor quality of teaching colonoscopy technique existing in most European countries. Large cohorts of current endoscopists had either no structured training or were just softly supervised (frequently with endoscope taken by the “teacher” when first difficulties occur). The most important negative outcomes of poor quality of colonoscopy are:

• Delayed diagnosis of cancer
• Failure to prevent cancer during screening procedure
• Increase of the risk of complications such as perforation and bleeding
• Incomplete resection of potentially curable precancerous lesions
• Increase of unnecessary procedures and higher health care costs

Inclusion criteria

Costs

There is no registration fee for Participants. Travel expenses (travel tickets, hotel, subsistance) are to be covered either from partner of EUCAnScreen project or host organisation, providing that these costs are allocated in the budget (to be agreed before the Course between host organisation and EUCanScreen partner)

How to apply?

Participants need to fill the Application Form and send it to the respective email address for each Course location. We encourage also to fill in the "Pre-Course Key Quality Indicators" Form and take it with you as paper version to the Course for discussion.

Locations and dates of the Course