Video-Digest is a medical training meeting which is based on endoscopy demonstrations broadcast live from a center selected on precise specifications and strict ethical rules. During endoscopy demonstration sessions broadcast live, operators selected on their expertise and pedagogical qualities will carry out diagnostic and interventional endoscopy and will present all the technological innovations of endoscopy and new endotherapy equipment. The selection of cases and acts presented will be guided by the wishes you have expressed in the recent online survey to address your daily concerns. This year,
These sessions will be facilitated by moderators, and last year you will be able to ask questions through the conference mobile app and interact with the operators during the demonstrations. These demonstrations are essential for digestive endoscopy training because they teach the direct control of the gesture, they show without selection bias the decisions taken by the operator and they do not hinder the difficulties or even the possible failures. They allow to better appreciate the degree of difficulty of a gesture and the importance of the choice of the techniques or the material and its perfect knowledge before using it. Each of the sessions will be followed by an expert review of the state of the art on the theme of the session. A return to the live event on Friday afternoon will return to the different endoscopic gestures made and engage in a discussion with experts and operators. The anatomo-clinical confrontations that we introduced last year will be renewed this year because they were unanimously appreciated.
Other sessions organized during Video-Digest will allow you to tackle specific problems of endoscopy: the SFED evening of reflection devoted to current topics and a prospective debate on the future of the profession, the video capsule evening, the symposium devoted to inflammatory bowel diseases, meetings with experts. At the same time, various endocenters and symposiums will address, in formats that emphasize interactivity, more specific issues or the technical aspects of new endoscopy materials. In 2019, we renew our partnership with GIFE, which will organize its main annual meeting. This joint work highlights the specific role of endoscopy nurses and perfectly reflects the collaboration and complementarity that exists between our professions. We will renew this year, the young hepatogastroenterologists space that has been a great success and we will offer sessions of “hands-on training” for the oldest.
The SNFGE Intensive Course will begin on Friday with workshops on cholelithiasis of the young subject and on hemorrhoidal pathologies. The new niche of these workshops that were so far scheduled in the morning is now the afternoon from 3 pm. At the end of the afternoon, 2 interactive clinical cases will be presented, the first will be acute hepatitis and the second and first episode of acute ileitis. The FMC-HGE workshop will focus on the latest developments in GERD. Saturday morning will be devoted to new digestive oncology and the afternoon to cysts of the liver and pancreas.
The participation recorded last year confirms the attractiveness of this congress, since the 2018 edition, brought together nearly 1,200 doctors, 180 interns and assistants and 300 nurses of the GIFE. The evaluations of the participants were very good or excellent, both on the scientific content and the organization. The only downside that was formulated to us was the insufficient capacity of reception of the blue amphitheater which led us to opt for the big amphitheater this year. Our goal in 2019 is to do better both in terms of assistance and the quality of the reception and educational content.
We remind you that for the entire congress a preferential rate is reserved for members of the SFED and the SNFGE as well as interns and assistant heads of clinics. As in previous editions, you will have the opportunity to validate the cognitive part of the CPD by attending certain sessions of the congress. We thank the College Evaluation Training Accreditation in Hepato-Gastroenterology (CEFA-HGE) which accompanies you in your CPD process.