World Gastroenterology Organisation—A Vision for the Future
To diminish the significant financial burden placed on the national healthcare budgets of many low-resource nations as a result of preventable and treatable digestive disorders, the WGO has positioned itself in a key leadership role.
As the ‘global guardians of digestive health’, the WGO strives to provide the resources, tools, education, advocacy, and training needed to address these challenges and create sustainable, enduring change on many levels through the hard work and dedication of our members. Consistent with this honorable and altruistic approach, the WGO maintains its role as the leading global gastroenterological organization with the charge of promoting the highest standards of education, training, and practice within an ethical and principled framework.2
WGO Programs
The WGO has a portfolio of training and education programs to fulfill its mission including:
• training centers; • Train the Trainers; • global guidelines; • outreach program; •
WGO Outreach Program—equip WGO training centers for primary and enhanced training and home institutions of WGO trainees with endoscopic instruments.
Cancer education and advocacy—promote awareness, primary prevention, screening, early detection and treatment of digestive cancers to governments, the general public and to medical practitioners through educational activities, including the WGO’s Training Centres and TTT Programs.
Public awareness—enhance the understanding of digestive disorders among practitioners, the public, and governments alike through programs such as World Digestive Health Day (WDHD), a year-long, worldwide public health campaign that focuses on an important topic in the area of digestive health. In 2010 we’ve focused on inflammatory bowel disease, with the topic of Enteric Infections: Prevention and Management for 2011.
Vision for the Future
WGO seeks to create a global education & training network leveraging the strength of the existing WGO programs. This network will expand each program’s impact and reach to maximize resources and training efficiency. The long-term outcomes of this initiative include:
cancer education and advocacy; and • public awareness.
These programs represent an unprecedented level of collaboration between WGO, its member national societies, industry, and local governments through financial support, donation of equipment and supplies, curriculum development, and general awareness.
Program Objectives
Each WGO program is thoughtfully designed to address specific areas of need in the practice of gastroenterology. Individual sessions or programs are further customized to meet the unique requirements and challenges of the settings in which they are delivered. The following high-impact strategies are how WGO and its partners promote progress and change around the world.
WGO training centers—elevate the level of practice and help retain highly skilled doctors and other related health professionals in low- resource nations by expanding the reach and opportunities offered through this flagship program. The WGO has trained over 1,600 professionals at its 14 training centers since 2005.
WGO Train the Trainers—enhance the educational and training skills of clinician–educators by bringing together trainers from across the globe in intensive four-day sessions. This forum developed by WGO enables interaction between world leaders in education for the sharing of experience and the discussion of common problems, with over 400 participating to date.
WGO Global Guidelines—provide locally relevant treatment options through wider dissemination and adoption of these practical tools, which utilize cascades that can be adapted to available resources and infrastructure; 20 of these have been developed to date.3
US GASTROENTEROLOGY & HEPATOLOGY REVIEW
The WGO also differs in the way it goes about its mission. We are the only organization that seeks to expand the overall practice of the specialty within both fully developed countries with unlimited access to technology and modern techniques as well as low-resource nations where basic infrastructure such as electricity and sanitation sometimes scarcely exist.
Our programs provide applicable knowledge and skills to in-country gastroenterological professionals through scalable global guidelines and locally relevant training to educate them along with the local population in ways to prevent and treat common digestive and liver disorders. The end result is that practitioners are better able to care for their fellow citizens through their enhanced skills, tools, and expertise while expanding the specialty of gastroenterology and hepatology by training their peers.
We recognize the critical role that research plays in developing optimal preventive, diagnostic and therapeutic strategies for digestive diseases worldwide and the paucity of clinical research on digestive problems in emerging nations. Through the Train the Trainers program the WGO promotes the inclusion of instruction on research methods in gastroenterology training programs by including modules on evidence-based medicine, trial design and critical evaluation. An advanced version of TTT has been developed that focuses entirely on trial design and the performance of clinical trials in gastroenterology. To further promote clinical research in
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increased access to high-quality patient care; and retention of skilled healthcare providers locally.
While many organizations seek to advance the profession of gastroenterology, the reach and influence of the WGO is wider. We are the only organization that is truly global as reflected in the breadth of our member national societies and their member professionals.
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