European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ESGE) curricula development for postgraduate training in advanced endoscopic procedures: rationale and methodology

Raf Bisschops; Evelien Dekker; James E. East; Gavin Johnson; Pedro Pimentel-Nunes; David S. Sanders; Mario Dinis-Ribeiro; Thierry Ponchon

doi:10.1055/a-1000-5603

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Endoscopy 2019; 51(10): 976-979
DOI: 10.1055/a-1000-5603

Introduction

European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ESGE) curricula development for postgraduate training in advanced endoscopic procedures: rationale and methodology

Raf Bisschops

¹Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Hospitals Leuven, and TARGID, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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Evelien Dekker

²Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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James E. East

³Translational Gastroenterology Unit, Nuffield Department of Medicine, Experimental Medicine Division, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

⁴Oxford NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford, UK

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Gavin Johnson

⁵University College London Hospitals, London, UK

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Pedro Pimentel-Nunes

⁶Gastroenterology Department, Portuguese Oncology Institute of Porto, Porto, Portugal

⁷Center for research in health technologies and information systems (CINTESIS), Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

⁸Surgery and Physiology Department, Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

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David S. Sanders

⁹Academic Unit of Gastroenterology, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield, UK

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Mario Dinis-Ribeiro

⁶Gastroenterology Department, Portuguese Oncology Institute of Porto, Porto, Portugal

⁷Center for research in health technologies and information systems (CINTESIS), Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

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Thierry Ponchon

¹⁰Gastroenterology Division, Edouard Herriot Hospital, Lyon, France

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