A comprehensive listing of future international gastroenterology meetings is available here. Here, a list of standard terminology and definitions is available for use in a computerized endoscopy database. The 45-Kb file can be rapidly downloaded to your computer for daily use. Videotapes of various endoscopic procedures are also available. This is the site of the World Gastroenterology Newsletter.
Many congresses provide full-text reports of their meetings on the Net.
For example, there is a very useful section on this Digestive Diseases Week website. At this site, conference summaries of the Digestive Diseases Week held in San Diego in May 2000 are posted. This is the official website of the American Gastroenterology Association. The most useful part of this website is the AGA Policy and Position Statement section which deals with landmark publications on nearly every issue related to gastroenterology. These articles serve to apprise the reader about the current trends in the approach to a particular disease.