Train the Trainers

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Overview

Goal

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) program, 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. Learn more

Program/Faculty

Members of the TTT faculty are often comprised of both international and local educators and are carefully selected for each workshop according to their experience as educationalists.Learn more

Participants

In order to be considered as a candidate for a TTT workshop, participants must be nominated by their national society, which must be a member of WGO. Learn more

Evaluation

All aspects of the course are subject to intensive, rigorous and continuous assessment and are refined on an ongoing basis accordingly. Acceptance to the workshop is accompanied by the commitment of each participant to providing 6-month and one-year post-workshop feedback in the form of a questionnaire. This information is collated and analyzed and prepared for publication in education and training journals.

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Guidelines for Hosting a TTT

If your national society is interested in partnering with WGO to host a Train the Trainers workshop, please send an email to ttt@worldgastroenterology.org to obtain a copy of the official guidelines for local host societies. Please contact WGO at the address below for further information.