(Distance Learning)

The Barts and the London-UEGF Diploma in Gastroenterology (Distance Learning) is a newly established course starting in October 2010. It is designed as a curriculum in gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition for new entrants into these fields and as an update and extension for those already in it. A highly successful full-time MSc has run based at Barts and the London for 16 years, this course has been designed to allow students to undertake this without the need to live in or visit London.

It has been jointly established by the Centre for Digestive Diseases at Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry and the United European Gastroenterology Federation. The course has also been approved by the British Society of Gastroenterology.

The Centre for Digestive Diseases (www.icms.qmul.ac.uk/centres/digestivediseases/index.html) (within the Blizard Institute of Cell and Molecular Science, Queen Mary University of London) is one of the largest academic and clinical departments in this field in the UK and includes professors in GI genetics, paediatrics, surgery, neurogastroenterology, clinical gastroenterology, GI pharmacology and GI physiology all of whom contribute to the post graduate teaching (www.icms.qmul.ac.uk/centres/digestivediseases/staff-research.htm). The majority of the teaching in the Diploma is provided by clinical academics who are both research and clinically active.

The programme provides clinicians with both theoretical and clinically applied aspects of this discipline with a focus on the relevant basic sciences and research techniques.

It is aimed at clinicians wishing to gain strong knowledge of the sciences underpinning the clinical diseases and their management.

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ASNEMGE is pleased to announce another Young Investigators' Meeting. This one day course, to be held on Sunday, October, 24th 2010 at the CCIB Barcelona, is designed for young starting investigators in the fields of clinical and/or basic gastroenterology and hepatology.

The course covers the following areas:

• How to write an abstract
• How to evaluate a scientific paper
• How to present an abstract / project

Details of how to apply and a preliminary programme are available on the ASNEMGE website.

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Professor Sir John Temple has launched his report ‘Time for Training’, an independent review of the impact of the European Working Time Directive (EWTD) on the quality of training for doctors, dentists, pharmacists and healthcare scientists.

The report was commissioned by Medical Education England (MEE) at the request of the former Secretary of State for Health Alan Johnson.

Sir John’s report concludes that high quality training can be delivered within the reduced number of hours available but fails if trainees:

• have the major role in providing out of hours service;
• are poorly supervised; or
• have limited access to learning.

'Time for Training' focuses on the quality of training provided now and says any current problems will not be solved by either increasing hours or lengthening training programmes.

The Review reveals that, despite an increase of more than 60 percent in consultant numbers over the past ten years, hospitals remain too reliant on junior doctors to provide out of hours services.

This scheme, which has been running for 2 years now, allows senior trainees with a particular interest in IBD to undergo training in important non-clinical skills at a weekend course, and to attend the annual ECCO congress, which in 2011 is in Dublin.

The weekend course will be held in London on 20-21 November 2010, and will cover subjects such as workforce planning (i.e. how the job market might look), NHS structure, business case writing, negotiating and influencing skills, setting up clinical research, preparing for consultant interviews and the challenges of being a new consultant. The faculty is senior gastroenterologists, an NHS Chief Executive and external facilitators. Feedback from previous years has been outstanding.

This educational meeting is fully sponsored by MSD, however the agenda and teaching has been put together purely by the faculty, with no input whatsoever from MSD.

Dr Tim Orchard, Chair - BSG IBD Section Committee

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The BSG, in partnership with the Federation of Royal Colleges of Physicians of the UK, has embarked upon a programme to deliver the Specialty Certificate Examination in Gastroenterology.

The Specialty Certificate Examination (SCE) is a compulsory component of assessment for Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) for all UK trainees whose specialist training in Gastroenterology began in or after August 2007. The examination compliments workplace-based assessments and ensures that trainees have sufficient knowledge to practice safely and competently as consultants. The first SCE in Gastroenterology took place in June 2008.

The next SCE in Gastroenterology is scheduled to take place on 30 September 2010.

All candidates who take the exam for the first time in 2010 and who are unsuccessful in their attempt will automatically be offered a retake at no extra charge.

Contacts:

• MRCP Website

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