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Update from committee meeting, June 2010
SpR Education meeting
The meeting for September has already been arranged and invites issued. The programme was reviewed and changed in line with the trainees section’s previous suggestions. The meeting will now have a liver element to it and it was felt the whole day now had a more balanced feel.
It is proposed to run it again in June 2011. In line with trainees suggestions there will be a plan to move it around the country and Manchester has been suggested for 2011. The trainees section will write the programme for next year.
BSG September 2011 meeting
It is planned to hold a 1 day research workshop in Edinburgh. A provisional programme was described and was universally thought to be very high quality. This may be for invited people only. It is likely to be free to attend.
The workshop will be followed by a 2 day meeting – “Clinical update in Gastroenterology”. This will be a predominantly luminal gastro meeting with a further 2 day Hepatology meeting in Jan 2012. It will be aimed at SpRs and Consultants partly to deliver education to those that cannot make the annual meeting in March. There will be no abstracts. Again the proposed programme is very high quality. There will be a registration fee.
Future direction of education
There will be 3 areas which the education committee will try to develop
- Supraregional meetings
- SpR courses
- Increased web learning
BSG annual meeting
This will move to a June slot from 2012 onwards
Speaker entitlements
It has been proposed to scrap the honorarium given to BSG members speaking at the annual meeting and replace this with free registration for the meeting +/- travel costs. This will be finalised after a business plan is agreed.
Post graduate day 2011
There was a wide range of suggestions. It will be run along similar lines to 2010 with a mixture of clinical cases, basic sciences, state of the art lectures and interactive sessions.
BSG 2011
The various symposia were outlined.
The trainees programme was approved and will hopefully be on Tuesday afternoon. TiG should be on Monday after the post grad day.
Abstracts
- There is a plan to increase abstracts from 320ish to around 500
- The timetable is: Submissions 1/9/10 to 1/12/10
Reviews 4/12/10 to 14/12/10
Notifications 12/1/11
Update from committee meeting, March 2010
SpR Education meeting
This was pencilled in for June but the committee agreed the time frame was too short and it will be moved to September. The programme has not yet been agreed but feedback was given re: trainees opinions. It seems there was a meeting held at St. Hilda’s under the auspices of the BSG in January but this was not taken through the education committee and overall the training days seem to be being arranged without much heed of the discussions in the committee. This will be brought up again and further discussed at the next meeting. Funding has been gained from pharma.
BSG regional meetings
It has been proposed to hold BSG badged 1-2 day meetings scattered around the country aimed at giving updates to SpRs, Nurses and Consultants. There was some debate about how feasible these were to run. Consideration will be given to setting up meetings especially in regions that currently have limited post-graduate educational opportunities.
Abstracts
The timetable for abstract submission, review and acceptance will be similar to last year. Reviewers will be asked to rank the abstracts in order of quality to help choosing oral presentations. The current acceptance rate is around 55%. There was a move to increase this but this was not agreed on. Non-members will be allowed to submit abstracts. It is hoped there will be prizes for the best posters and oral presentations.
Post graduate day 2011
There was a wide range of suggestions. It will be run along similar lines to 2010 with a mixture of clinical cases, basic sciences, state of the art lectures and interactive sessions.
Symposia
Outlines of symposia should be in place by June. All sections were asked to provide 2-3 suggestions for the post graduate day.
Update from committee meeting, June 2009
Most of this meeting was given over to the development of the programme
for BSG 2010. What follows is a summary of the most interesting points
and the additional issues that were raised.
BSG Autumn training meeting
There has been great difficulty raising funding for this. Unless funding
is forthcoming the meeting will be delayed until such a time as monies
can be found. There’s an ongoing search for backers.
BSG Regional education
Barry Rathbone has looked into this. A proposal will be brought forward
to council but was generally well received by the committee. In broad
terms the BSG will aim to have more presence at a regional level. In areas
where there is active local education already this may just involve facilitation
of speakers and visits by BSG presidents etc. In other areas this may
be to develop/facilitate regular local meetings.
Additionally it is proposed to bring regional training directors together
to facilitate training.
2010
The plenary session will be revamped. Eponymous lectures will be shortened,
the best 2 abstracts will be included, there will still be cutting edge
free papers, the outgoing president will deliver a “state of union”
address and there may be a political talk delivered by a politician.
All symposia will publish 2-3 learning objectives to clarify their content.
There will be more “Meet the experts” breakfasts and lunches.
There will be nobel laureates speaking at the plenary session.
It is planned to pilot a scheme whereby trainees could collect a certificate
of attendance to be used at their RITAs/ARCPs to demonstrate training
in nutrition (BAPEN symposium). This may be rolled out to other symposia
in future years.
The post grad day will be on hot topics in gastroenterology. A provisional
programme includes chronic IBD, liver fibrosis and hep C, CRC screening
and polyp management, setting up endoscopy units, c. dif colitis. This
is all subject to review and change.
Overall the programme looks very strong and fuller than last year.
Abstracts for 2010
There will be a tight timetable to abstracts. Submissions 1st Sept until
1st Dec. Reviews must be by 14th Dec with abstract meeting by 8th Jan.2011
This will be in Birmingham. It may be held jointly with other societies
(?ACP). The timetable for writing the programme will be brought forward
with an aim to largely finalise the programme by BSG 2010.
Update from Committee meeting, March 2009
BSG 2010
An outline programme for BSG 2010 was delivered. The main points of
interest were:
- The post-grad day will revert to a Monday slot
- Nobel laureate symposium on Thursday
- There will be an attempt to avoid timing overlap in common fields e.g.
IBD and endoscopy symposia at different times
-It is aimed that more information will be published regarding content
of lectures. The programme will contain a list of specific learning objectives
(2-3) for each lecture in order to better guide delegates. It is hoped
this will help provide a more coordinated programme with less repetition
of talks
- There is a move to involve other societies in a combined meeting. This
is not achievable by 2010. It is hoped BASL, AUGIS, BAPEN, BSPGHAN……
will run joint themed symposia in 2010 as a stepping stone to future development.
It is aimed that in 2011/2012 there will be a joint annual meeting with
the above organisations.
Issues remain with regard to timing and finance.
BSG training meeting – London, Sept 2009
The committee had previously requested that the trainee member design
the course structure. Consequently it was proposed that this meeting will
be aimed at junior registrars with acknowledgement that TiG provides a
course for senior trainees. The content will include SCE based teaching,
how to develop as a registrar, becoming a sub-specialist and developing
your area of interest.
GI Paediatric MSc
St. Barts will be running this course. The course was agreed to be of
a good standard. In order to avoid under bias to courses it will not be
badged by the BSG but a link will be provided on the website.
Annual meeting survey
Suggestions which will try to be included in future meetings were: More
“Meet the expert” breakfasts, clinical trials sessions and better
central coordination of the programme. There is hoped to be a limited
number of bursaries available to trainees who attend.
GI handbook
There is strong support for a GI handbook for trainees – this is
being developed currently.
Update from Committee meeting, October 16, 2008
This was a first meeting of the newly formed joint committee, with Prof
Jankowski as the chair.
Issues relevant to trainees:
1. Postgraduate Course BSG 2009 - Emergencies in Gastroenterology
This has now been finalised with all speakers booked. BSG President used
to be able to nominate the theme (often their pet topic) for the Postgraduate
day but Prof Hawkey (and Prof Farthing beforehand) were very keen to change
that. The aim, now, is to structure the course such that it covers the
latest developments in major sub-specialities, therefore making it more
appealing to both the trainees and the ‘general’ gastroenterologists.
2. Gastro 2009
Young Clinicians programme has been advertised on BSG and TIG websites.
3. BSG 2010
It was felt that the close proximity of this meeting and Gastro 2009 (4.5
months) may be detrimental to the attendance at the BSG meeting, especially
that of trainees. To that effect Prof Hawkey has written to all Postgraduate
Deans in England asking for proposals of how study leave and funding should
be managed. He proposed that those attending both meetings may be offered
a 20% reduction in registration fees. Furthermore three high profile speakers,
all Nobel laureates in medicine have agreed to speak at BSG 2010 (including
Barry Marshall) so it promises to deliver content of high scientific quality.
4. BSG annual training programme
This is the first time I heard about National Training days organised
by the BSG and aimed at registrars (especially as the remit of Education
Committee does not pertain to SpR Education and training, which is under
auspices of the Training Committee). Prof Jankowski had attempted to organise
a course entitled Oxford GI Ground Rounds twice but was asked by the BSG
to postpone it - it has now been rebranded as the BSG National Training
Weekend for SpRs to be held in January, at a venue yet to be determined.
I did point out the Friday evening sessions were very similar to the TIG
management course aimed at senior trainees and TIG session at BSG, with
titles such as ‘The evolution of gastroenterology and how to avoid
career extinction’, ‘My perspective for success’. The members
of Committee were unaware of the TIG course. The rest of the weekend would
cover subjects such as cancer prevention, role of nurse endoscopists and
pathology. The stated aim for these courses, as proposed by Prof Jankowski
would be to develop a central forum where not only medical, but management,
financial and team working skills could be updated.
5. A handbook for trainees
Prof Jankowski proposed developing a comprehensive handbook for the trainees
along the lines of Oxford ‘cheese and onion’. Each chapter would
be written by a leading British gastroenterologist on their expert subject
and updated 2 yearly. It was felt by the Committee that in its proposed
format the handbook would be superfluous to the numerous guidelines published
by the BSG, NICE, ACG, ASGE, etc and many excellent reviews that appear
in the journals. It would also be very time consuming for the contributors
and the editors. A web based system where clinically relevant information
(e.g. Azathioprine and exposure to chicken pox) would be compiled would
be more useful.
6. Practical Gastroenterology
The business plan development for the above journal is underway. It is
expected that the main contributors will be SpRs and non-academic gastroenterologists
with the format similar to World Journal of Gastroenterology. Its aim
will be to cover clinically relevant topics.
7. Audits of education ‘hot topics’
It is currently unclear who decides when and which national audits are
undertaken and what help BSG can provide, apart from web space and advertising.
8. Undergraduate fellowship/CORE
Each year CORE awards a number (to be confirmed, likely 20 or so) fellowships
to medical students. They are then expected to attend BSG but often know
no-one else and are frequently left to wonder on their own. It was proposed
the mentoring programme between the SpRs and the medical students who
win the prizes is established. This needs to be fully discussed at the
next meeting of the Trainee section.
Dates of next meetings: 15th January 2009, 24th March (during BSG) and
Sept/Oct 2009.
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