Development of an endoscopy technician training certificate program in a community college

Post written by Gottumukkala S. Raju, MD, from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA. Our focus is the development and implementation of a formal training and certification program for endoscopy technicians (ETs) at Houston Community College. We conducted this study to develop a formal training program for ETs in a community …

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Novel classification for adverse events in GI endoscopy: the AGREE classification

Post written by Paul Fockens, MD, PhD, from the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Research Institute Amsterdam Gastroenterology & Metabolism, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Our research showed that there is no commonly used classification for adverse events in GI endoscopy (AGREE). We developed and tested a new classification based on a universally …

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