The American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) held their recent Clinical Congress in Miami. The event was well attended, the programs offered were diverse and South Beach was as always, entertaining.
Dr. Mark DeLegge chaired and moderated the Practice Management Course. This course described to physician practice leadership the “coming” role of Accountable Care Organizations and Health Care Reform on the practice of gastroenterology in the United States. Dr. DeLegge also lectured in this forum on the future of endoscopy in ambulatory surgery centers, hospital outpatient endoscopy suites and office-based endoscopy facilities with the advent of healthcare reform.
Dr. DeLegge also co-chaired the AGA practice skills workshop, a forum for gastroenterology fellows plotting out their future careers to understand the career opportunities available to them in academic medicine and private practice. With his career experience in academic medicine, private practice and hospital leadership, Dr. DeLegge’s primary message was “find a mentor and listen.”
There was also a hands-on-endoscopy course offered for the first time by the AGA. Course attendance was completely booked and Robin Murray from DeLegge Medical assisted the AGA in putting on this inaugural course using table-top models and ex-vivo pig stomachs and intestines. Experience was received by attendees from “expert endoscopists” in the areas of tissue ablation, stenting, micro-endoscopy and endoscopic mucosal resection amongst other topics. Robin organized a first-rate course that was a smashing success. The new “pig trays” that were unveiled by Robin were very versatile and created a “real life” endoscopic experience.
DeLegge Medical is committed to excellence in physician education and the development of new medical technology. We are continuously exploring the means to put the right tools into the physician’s hands with the right training experience to ensure procedure success and patient safety.
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