WGO Training Center in Rome, Italy

EUROPEAN ENDOSCOPY TRAINING CENTRE (E.E.T.C)

The ongoing progress and improvement of modern devices generate new technologies which require a continuous training of the operators who work in the field of Digestive Endoscopy.

For this reason there is a constant request for the training and re-qualification of medical and surgical specialists through advanced and highly specialised training Courses.

The idea of creating a Centre in Rome entirely devoted to the teaching of digestive endoscopy has its roots in the well established and long-lasting experience in training activities that have taken place over the past 20 years at the Gemelli University Hospital’s Digestive Endoscopy Unit. From 1987 to 2007, more than two hundred endoscopists have spent monthly to yearly training periods at the Gemelli’s Digestive Endoscopy Unit. Moreover the same Unit has organized, since the early nineties, 83 Courses on therapeutic ERCP with close to 600 participants and thirteen annual editions of the European Workshop on Therapeutic Digestive Endoscopy and Radiology with live video demonstrations gathering every year approximately 300 attendants from several countries worldwide.

A permanent structure fully dedicated to the purpose of teaching and training in digestive endoscopy was therefore the natural complement of this intense activity. The European Endoscopy Training Centre (EETC), a comprehensive centre fully devoted to teaching and training in digestive endoscopy, was created in July 2003 at the Catholic University School of Medicine in Rome, Italy. Since its opening in July 2003, the EETC has organised 120 Courses for endoscopists, for a total of 1500 participants and 15 Courses for Nurses.

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Images of Rome:

• The European Endoscopy Training Centre (EETC)
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• Aula Didattica