Train the Trainers - Goal
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Overview
Wherever you are in the world, your experience as a trainee will be, in large part, influenced by the quality of input from your trainer. Despite the key role of trainers in the development of future gastroenterologists, it is evident that few, if any, have received formal instruction or training as educators. In an era when the shortcomings of many of the traditional approaches to post-graduate medical education and training have been exposed, this ad hoc approach to the education of our successors is no longer tenable.
The "Train the Trainers" (TTT) programme, developed by WGO attempts to correct this deficit. By bringing together trainers from across the globe in intensive and interactive 4 day sessions dedicated to the development of teaching and training skills, WGO has developed a forum for interaction between world leaders in education, for the sharing of experience and the discussion of common problems.
If the care of digestive diseases across the globe is to improve, standards in the training and education of those who care for those stricken by these ailments must also improve.
Train the Trainers was first held on the island of Crete, Greece in April 2001. Devised and organised by the WGO Education and Training Committee, under the guidance of Professor James Toouli, this unique workshop has proven to be a highly successful method of disseminating teaching skills to those gastroenterologists who hold training positions in their own countries. The delegates are equipped with skills which they can then implement on their home ground. Not only has this workshop been enthusiastically received by all national member societies around the world, it also provides an excellent forum for the exchange of ideas and the establishment of contacts between various countries, in an environment which is conducive to learning and interaction. For the long-term, it is planned to export aspects of the workshop to regions around the world. Ideally, delegates who have attended the meeting should work closely with the TTT organizers to deliver components of the programme in their own country, with the active collaboration of their national gastroenterological society.
