Sachin Wani, Samuel Han, Violette Simon, Matthew Hall, Dayna Early, Eva Aagaard, Wasif M Abidi, Subhas Banerjee, Todd H Baron, Michael Bartel, Erik Bowman, Brian C Brauer, Jonathan M Buscaglia, Linda Carlin, Amitabh Chak, Hemant Chatrath, Abhishek Choudhary, Bradley Confer, Gregory A Coté, Koushik K Das, Christopher J DiMaio, Andrew M Dries, Steven A Edmundowicz, Abdul Hamid El Chafic, Ihab El Hajj, Swan Ellert, Jason Ferreira, Anthony Gamboa, Ian S Gan, Lisa Gangarosa, Bhargava Gannavarapu, Stuart R Gordon, Nalini M Guda, Hazem T Hammad, Cynthia Harris, Sujai Jalaj, Paul Jowell, Sana Kenshil, Jason Klapman, Michael L Kochman, Sri Komanduri, Gabriel Lang, Linda S Lee, David E Loren, Frank J Lukens, Daniel Mullady, Raman V Muthusamy, Andrew S Nett, Mojtaba S Olyaee, Kavous Pakseresht, Pranith Perera, Patrick Pfau, Cyrus Piraka, John M Poneros, Amit Rastogi, Anthony Razzak, Brian Riff, Shreyas Saligram, James M Scheiman, Isaiah Schuster, Raj J Shah, Rishi Sharma, Joshua P Spaete, Ajaypal Singh, Muhammad Sohail, Jayaprakash Sreenarasimhaiah, Tyler Stevens, James H Tabibian, Demetrios Tzimas, Dushant S Uppal, Shiro Urayama, Domenico Vitterbo, Andrew Y Wang, Wahid Wassef, Patrick Yachimski, Sergio Zepeda-Gomez, Tobias Zuchelli, Rajesh N Keswani
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Minimum EUS and ERCP volumes that should be offered per trainee in "high quality" advanced endoscopy training programs (AETPs) are not established. We aimed to define the number of procedures required by an "average" advanced endoscopy trainee (AET) to achieve competence in technical and cognitive EUS and ERCP tasks to help structure AETPs. METHODS: American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE)-recognized AETPs were invited to participate; AETs were graded on every fifth EUS and ERCP examination using a validated tool...
June 2019: Gastrointestinal Endoscopy