Advanced Practice Providers (APPs) are crucial members of the gastroenterology clinical team in delivering high quality and efficient care to patients. This new ASGE course examines GI-specific essentials for APPs -new or returning to GI - and provide best practices to assist in navigating their role in all GI practice settings. Through a mix of didactic lectures and interactive sessions with case studies, taught by leading experts in the field, this course will serve as a critical resource for units that want to create an effective APP/physician collaboration and successfully and smoothly integrate new APPs into their GI team.

Upon completion of this educational activity, participants will be able to:

• Recognize key aspects of scope of practice in GI consultation as reflected in proper documentation
• Summarize various endoscopic procedures and how best to prepare the patient for endoscopy.
• Identify common ncodes used for GI consult endoscopic procedures.
• Discuss the rold of the GI APP by chronicling both inpatient and outpatient workdays.
• Outline tools and resources needed to develop an onboarding program for the GI APP.
• List key elmenets of a high-performing, quality GI team.

Advanced Practice Providers that are new or need a refresher in GI. APP supervisors, physician leaders, and administrators responsible for the onboarding of APPs and for the development of an effective APP/physician collaboration.

Course Directors Joseph J. Vicari, MD, MBA, FASGE Rockford Gastroenterology Associates Rockford, IL