All right, guys. Welcome everyone. We appreciate you coming to the first of the First-Year Fellows Endoscopy courses. Jason Taylor. Katherine Byrne. And we'd all like to welcome you on behalf of all of the ASG and everyone here. We really appreciate you guys coming. It's wonderful to see everybody in person. It's a great course, and I think you guys are really going to enjoy it. So after we go through this slide, we're going to talk a little bit about the course. If there's questions at any time, please feel free to raise your hand. There's also a virtual component to this course for people watching, asking questions, so I wanted to let you guys know that as well. Many faculty here from around the country have given their time as well, so I think you guys will enjoy it quite a bit. Okay. Well, you guys, welcome. I'm Katherine Byrne. I'm here from the University of Utah. I've been on faculty there for about 12 years. I have an appointment at the university and the VA, and I'm the program director of the fellowship there. And I just want to, again, welcome all of you here. I'm thrilled to be here. So the first-year fellows course, so it's been around since 2004. I guess I didn't realize when I started fellowship and came in 2007, that was kind of in the very beginnings of this course. We didn't have this very nice center then, so it's very nice to be here. Over 5,000 fellows have attended this course now, and this course is tailored for you. This is for first-year fellows in the very beginning of their fellowship, and the course is going to focus on kind of teaching you effective and safe endoscopy through all kinds of different formats. So there's lectures here, there's a lot of hands-on sessions, a lot of interaction with the faculty, and then there's hands-on sessions in our lab. So how many of you guys are here with one of your co-fellows? You have to show a raise of hands. Yeah. Yeah. So most people. You're not. And like I said, it was one of my favorite courses that I ever attended as a fellow, if not my favorite, and as faculty still, for various reasons. But you guys will really enjoy it, so enjoy the time with your fellows. A lot of great experiences that you guys have here. Even though this is something that everybody does every year, it's a great experience, and I really encourage you guys to make the most of it. People that you'll see years later, whether it be at conferences, writing chapters in books, writing the papers that you read for your fellowship, are here today, which is kind of cool. So anyways, it is a standardized education. We have slide sets, obviously hands-on stations, which you guys will enjoy a lot, and all this input is from all the faculty. It's an opportunity to meet the faculty, like I talk about, and network with them. So if there's interest that you have and things that you want to talk about, obviously these people have been doing it for quite some time. It introduces the ASGE not only as your educational resource center, but also as something that you're going to use in fellowship and well beyond. People say that, like, oh, well, you should become a member of this society. Oh, you should be a member of that society. It's great, I promise. And then you pay for it, and you're like, why am I paying for this? But it's true. It really is. I really do think a lot of the educational platforms that have come about in the last decade are really more significant than we ever had. At the beginning, it was just a first-year's fellows course, and now it's much, much more than that. Second-year's fellows course, third-year fellows course, and educational resources that are online. So it really fosters that lifelong learning environment and the relationships that you build. So we couldn't do this course, obviously, without all our faculty volunteers. We have faculty that have come from all over the country, and this just fantastic mix of experts from very senior faculty to more junior faculty, and I think having that mix is fantastic because it offers a lot of different perspectives. So I'd like to introduce all our faculty. For the sake of doing this, I'm going to have them wave their hand, even though I haven't met them yet. Dr. Joe L. Munzer, Medical University of South Carolina. Dr. Robert Moran, also from the Medical University of South Carolina. Dr. Amar Desponde, University of Miami. Dr. Deng, unfortunately couldn't be with us today, is at Henry Ford Hospital. Dr. Michael Rejala, from soon-to-be Medical University of South Carolina. Dr. Jennifer Jorgensen, from Confluence Health. Jen, there we go. There we go, all the way in the back there. Thank you. Dr. George Secura, University of Michigan. I'll round out the rest. I have Dr. Anne Flynn, she's one of my colleagues at University of Utah. Zach Smith, from Medical College of Wisconsin. Danny Issa, from UCLA. I have Dr. Doug Adler, from Centura Health in Denver. Priyanka Kanth, from MedStar Georgetown University. John Morris, one of my colleagues at University of Utah. Cyrus Paracas, here from Henry Ford Health System, way back in the back. And he's brought one of his advanced endoscopy fellows, Steven Simmer, also from Henry Ford. And then we have Nanya Kolo, from Mayo Clinic in Rochester. Thank all of you guys for coming. Give a big round of applause for the faculty. And we say that, and once again, this course is for you guys. So we really do appreciate you guys being here. Thank you again, guys. So this course wouldn't be possible without the educational grants from many people. I know that you guys are very interested in education, but once again, this has to be, through these grants, truly made possible and wouldn't be otherwise. Boston Scientific Corporation, Cooke Medical, Herbie USA, Medtronic, Olympus Corporation of the Americas, and Steris. In-kind support provided by Boston Scientific, ConMed, Cooke Medical, Herbie USA, Olympus, and Steris. And then there's exhibits as well. And that was provided by ConMed, Herbie, Medtronic, and Steris. So remember, all the tools and the techniques that you're using and learning, there has to be equipment there to be provided for, and these companies have generously given those items so you guys can learn. And we can use them and have some fun. So just a couple, like, kind of housekeeping notes. So all your badges, just kind of take a second to take a look. You either have a red dot, meaning you're Group A, or a blue dot, meaning that you're Group B. And so just please follow kind of the schedule that you're assigned. Everyone gets the exact same experience, same lectures, same everything, same hands-on. The split is just meant so we don't have a ton of people all in the hands-on all at once. So just please kind of follow within the schedule of the one you're assigned. Special note about the hands-on sessions. So this won't be until tomorrow, but you access the hands-on lab from through the restrooms. So you go through the restrooms into the locker room, and then you'll go into the lab from there. Don't really bring anything into the lab. Food and drinks aren't allowed. You don't really want to have your purses or bags or anything in there. There are lockers that you can store your stuff in before you go into the lab tomorrow. And there are disposable gowns that you guys can use when you're in the lab. So a map of where we are. So we're in the auditorium right now. Later this afternoon, you will go into the conference room for tools of the trade, and that is the room just kind of right towards the back of the center. Then for tomorrow, basically just right across the hallway near where you checked in are the restrooms. That goes to the lockers, and then the hands-on lab right behind there. So questions, there will be two ways. Obviously, you have in front of you, there's microphones located there. You can see a triangular microphone you can press. Press the bottom button labeled push, and the light in the center will turn green when live. You don't need to continuously press a button. You don't have to hold it. I wonder if you're talking. Just press it once. It'll go on. And you turn it off following the same steps of a – there is, like I said, a virtual component to this. So we're going to have people with questions and Q&A to answer that, hopefully. So those folks that are joining us virtually, please submit those, and we'll try to get those answered. In light of time, we'll probably only have time for a few questions for each discussion, so we can get through all the slides, and you guys don't fall asleep and wonder how long this is going to take. It is enjoyable, like I said, and we'll try to answer as much as we can. If you still have questions, please ask those questions. You can find the faculty afterwards and ask what you need to. And then the wireless, in case you guys haven't already connected – probably already everyone has. But if you haven't already, just go to the ASGE Guest Network, and you do not need a password there. All the presentations from the – all the slides from the presentations today will all be available on the ASGE GI Leap. GI Leap is basically your home for everything related to ASGE. Jason and I, later today, are going to go through some slides about instructions related to ASGE Leap. But you do have all the course materials available to you there. So we're going to have polls during this. I'm sure you guys have seen this as a part of the lecture series. So you can have your responses, A, B, C, D. Choose which responses that you want. And then you'll poll. So if you guys go ahead and scan this QR, or text ASGEPOLL to 22333 to join, you'll have that. So all the lectures – most of the lectures will have probably polls within them, if one if not a few questions. So you guys can participate and see how your knowledge is doing for them. One more slide. Did everyone get that? Anyone need some more time? Yeah, a few more. Some people still. And if you're having problems and for some reason can't connect, please let us know. And then we'll have our AV team work with you guys and get it if you're having a problem getting it on your phone. Everybody good? Yeah. All right. Okay. We do have a short presentation. Brett Peterson, our ASG president, will be providing an intro, which we'll play in a moment here. And I'll have you guys watch. Good morning. I'm Brett Peterson, the current president of the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. I would like to welcome you to the first year fellows course for 2022. This is being held at our spectacular International Training and Technology Center, or the ITT for short, in suburban Chicago. This course is the premier course for introducing fellows to gastrointestinal endoscopy. It's grown over 15 or 20 years, matured greatly, and is now a favorite of fellows both in their first year and in additional renditions now developed for advanced fellows. I hope you enjoy the weekend, and I encourage you to immerse yourself in what the course has to offer. You'll be exposed to a variety of faculty with expertise in a variety of niches in GI endoscopy, and you'll be shoulder to shoulder with peers from across the country, many of whom will become colleagues and friends in years to come. In the coming months, we also hope that you'll become very familiar with the offerings that the ASGE has for both practitioners and fellows. We have educational offerings, including twice-monthly webinars, one of which, the Endo Hangouts, is specifically geared towards fellows. Our Golden Scope competition, now in its second year, is a competition between various training programs in a tournament-style fashion. It comes to culmination this coming week with the four to five final programs. The mentors program is available for external mentorship of those fellows who would like to learn more about niche areas or receive additional guidance from practicing clinicians beyond those available in your home institution. Please become familiar with our journal series, Gastrointestinal Endoscopy is the premier GI journal for endoscopists and endoscopic issues. The sister journal, Video GIE, now in press for a number of years, focuses especially on techniques and technology. And our newest journal, iGIE, will have its inaugural issue in the coming month, initially on a quarterly basis. This will also focus on preliminary studies, animal studies, and a variety of innovative developments. Our online portfolio of educational offerings in our GILEAP platform carries both basic and advanced topics and training. Some free, some particularly for members and free, some paid for CME credit, and some by subscription model. So there's something for everyone, and it's easily accessible and easily searchable for the niche topic that you might need assistance with or background on. For many of you, the ASGE will become an important academic home as well. Our committee structure, with more than 20 committees, covers virtually all things endoscopy, from general and advanced training committees to quality, standards of practice, reimbursement, advocacy, membership, diversity, et cetera, et cetera. Many of the contacts you make here, both with faculty and with your peers, will become lifelong collaborators, colleagues, and friends. This is one of the most rewarding parts of medicine and one of the strongest inducements for many of us to remain very active and proactive within the society. So enjoy yourselves this weekend, ask questions, get your hands dirty, immerse yourself in the technology, become familiar with what will become standard available to you in coming years. Please network with your colleagues and with the faculty, meet new and renewed friends. Thanks for joining us this weekend. We hope you will become lifelong learners and make ASGE your professional home for endoscopy as lifelong members and participants. Regards. ♪

First-Year Fellows Endoscopy course

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