TRAINEE HUB What Makes a
Good Endoscopy Educator Perspectives from Gastroenterology Fellows and Faculty By Shifa Umar, MD
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LEARNING GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY IS ONE OF THE INTEGRAL ASPECTS of gastroenterology fellowship. Yet, while interacting with my peers at local and national meetings, I always found it interesting how differently we all progressed at learning the various endoscopic skills and maneuvers. Training fellows to perform endoscopy is challenging and has, over the years, evolved from an apprenticeship model to a competencybased model. To bring together perspectives from educators and learners, I invited faculty and fellows from various backgrounds and different career stages and points in their training to share their vision and identify attributes which make for an effective endoscopy educator. During my own gastroenterology fellowship, I identified that we all have our own learning pace. What works for me may not work for someone else and, by the end of three years of fellowship, I adopted a bit of something from everyone I worked with (faculty, technicians and nurses). I discovered that endoscopy, just like with everything in medicine, will be a constant process of learning. —Dr. Shifa Umar
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