Clinical trial NCT02735655: Global State of Digestive Endoscopy Training Survey
Official title: The Global Status and the Unmet Needs for Training in Endoscopy; a World Endoscopy Organization Web Based Survey
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Conditions: Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Training
Keywords: endoscopy
Education
capsule endoscopy
Cholangiopancreatography, Endoscopic Retrograde
esophagogastroduodenoscopy
colonoscopy
Double-Balloon Enteroscopy
Global status
unmet need
Lead sponsor: Al-Azhar University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2016-04-13
Enrollment: 1000
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 100
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Physicians practicing gastrointestinal endoscopy

Brief summary: This is a 10 minutes web based survey aims at exploring the current, global state of digestive endoscopy training among physicians to identify what are the unmet needs and how to improve it.

Detailed description: Currently, gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy training is not a standardized and is variable from country to country. A number of certifying authorities in different countries grant privileges of performing GI endoscopy according to predefined rules, requisites and regulations, especially in the Western countries (1-4). However, in many other countries, physicians who perform GI endoscopy as part of their medical practice may not require to be certified or acknowledged by a relevant regulatory body (5-8).

In the absence of quality assessment of GI training, patient safety and evidence-based medical care cannot be guaranteed. According to major societies of GI endoscopy, the credentialing decisions for GI endoscopy should be based on the evaluation of physicians' qualifications and procedural skills, as assessed by experienced doctors with whom they have trained, not solely on a simple counting of procedures performed (9). Therefore, there is a need for a WEO training guideline that defines training duration, procedural skills and competency that should be acquired by young GI endoscopists during their endoscopy training.

It is particularly important for WEO to standardize the fundamentals of GI endoscopy training globally by developing recommendations on endoscopic education and training to help medical institutions ensure the technical and cognitive competence of individuals requesting endoscopic privileges.

Objective:

To assess the current global state of GI endoscopy training programs and to identify the unmet needs and how to improve it through a web based questionnaire.

Methods:

Endoscopists from all over the world will be invited to answer in the questionnaire through e-mail invitations. Results will be analyzed to assess the current global status of GI endoscopy training in their countries, the unmet needs and to how improve it.

Survey link:

http://www.surveymonkey.net/create/survey/preview?r=true\&sm=R74C8rWWwbO8_2BQM2fg9Yr5HcAtrkz8XwZogb4Bbaqr8oC9mFJrq8WAvNY33O45r1

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Physicians practicing gastrointestinal endoscopy from all over the world

Exclusion Criteria:

* Any other persons whom are not physicians or physicians not practicing gastrointestinal endoscopy

Primary outcomes:
measure: Training status
timeFrame: 8 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Unmet needs
timeFrame: 8 months
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Albertson
country: United States
facility: Kings County Hospital Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA
state: New York
city: Brussels
country: Belgium
facility: Erasme Hospital, Gastroenterology Department, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
city: Cascavel
country: Brazil
facility: São Lucas Academic Hospital - Gastroclínica Cascavel
city: Santiago
country: Chile
facility: Hospital Luis Calvo Mackenna and Clínica Alemana de Santiago
city: Zagazig
country: Egypt
facility: Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig University
state: Sharkia
city: Cairo
country: Egypt
facility: Al-Azhar Univerisity
city: Ahvaz
country: Iran, Islamic Republic of
facility: Ahvaz Imam hospital
city: Karachi
country: Pakistan
facility: Dow university of health sciences, Civil hospital Karachi
city: Szczecin
country: Poland
facility: Pomeranian Medical University
city: Singapore
country: Singapore
facility: Singapore General Hospital
city: Taipei
country: Taiwan
facility: Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital
city: Istanbul
country: Turkey
facility: Koç University Hospital
city: Edinburgh
country: United Kingdom
facility: The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
Study officials:
affiliation: Al-Azhay University, Cairo, Egypt
name: Mohamed Alboraie, MD, MRCP(UK)
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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