WGO La Paz Training Center: XII International Course on Advances in Gastroenterology and Digestive Endoscopy - Guido Villa-Gómez Roig, MD, MWGO

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37 WORLD GASTROENTEROLOGY NEWS JULY 2016 Editorial | Expert Point of View | Gastro 2016: EGHS-WGO | WDHD News | WGO & WGOF News | WGO Global Guidelines | Calendar of Events WGO La Paz Training Center: XII International Course on Advances in Gastroenterology and Digestive Endoscopy Guido Villa-Gómez Roig, MD, MWGO Director, WGO La Paz Training Center Instituto de Gastroenterología Boliviano - Japonés La Paz, Bolivia BACKGROUND OF LA PAZ WGO TRAINING CENTER In 2005, the Bolivian-Japanese Institute of Gastroenterology (IGBJ) of La Paz was inaugurated by the World Gastroenterology Organisation (WGO), in an agreement signed with the Ministry of Health of Bolivia, as the first Training Center of Gastro-enterology and Digestive Endoscopy for Latin America, on the basis of its health care background, as a teaching and research institution, that had been achieved in the national and interna-tional context. The La Paz WGO Training Center develops training programs in the specialty, focused on young specialists in Latin America with the following objectives: • Contribute to improve aspects of health care, teaching and research of digestive diseases in the region, through annual training programs in gastroenterology and endosco-py, as well as other developments Endoscopy in Montero. that impact the development of the specialty. • Promote mechanisms of interac-tion between international and regional specialists in the fields of gastroenterology, endoscopy, and hepatology, incorporating new generations of specialists, as the core of the program. • Contribute to strengthening the concept of medicine with social vi-sion, according to regional realities and needs. Under these principles, two programs are developed annually: • International Course on Advances in Gastroenterology and Digestive Endoscopy • Individual Training in Therapeutic Endoscopy XII INTERNATIONAL COURSE ON ADVANCES IN GASTRO-ENTEROLOGY AND DIGESTIVE ENDOSCOPY Program With its twelfth iteration, the Interna-tional Course expanded its academic activities and social action, taking them (besides La Paz) to Santa Cruz de la Sierra. La Paz, April 6 to 9: Workshop on New Trends and Innovations in Gastroenterology and Digestive Endoscopy. Academic activities were held in the Bolivian-Japanese Institute of Gastroenterology (IGBJ). Objective: Present the scope of current Latin American special-ist knowledge and development of central aspects of the specialty


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