Geisinger-PSG Video Capsule Endoscopy Course a huge success!

By Harshit S. Khara, MD, FACG, FASGE Director of Endoscopy, Geisinger Medical Center

We had a very successful Small Bowel Capsule Endoscopy course on Friday March 31st 2023, hosted by Geisinger and the Pennsylvania Society of Gastroenterology, and supported by an educational grant from Medtronic. This conference provided an overview of the indications, appropriate patient selection, diagnostic algorithms for small bowel capsule endoscopy, and a hands-on review of case studies on laptop stations preloaded with PillCam Rapid Reader software.

Dr. David Hass lead the session. Dr Hass is the President of the Connecticut Medical Society, Director of Endoscopy for Yale New Haven Hospital Saint Raphael Campus, and Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine and advanced endoscopy physician provider at PACT Gastroenterology Center in Connecticut. He is currently serving on the board of directors of the American College of Gastroenterology and was a course director for the ACG’s annual postgraduate course in 2021.

We had 54 registered attendees representing GI training programs from all over the states of Pennsylvania and West Virginia, including Fellows-in-Training, advanced practice providers, as well as attending physicians. There were 35 in-person attendees and a good representation via Zoom. The in-person fellow attendees represented GI Fellowship training programs from Geisinger Health System, St. Luke’s University Health Network, Penn State Hershey Medical Center, and Guthrie Hospitals.

The event was a huge success thanks to the overwhelming participation of several of the GI fellowship training programs. We are confident that this session will be an important part of the capsule endoscopy training curriculum for our fellows now and in the future. Our plan is to make this an annual event co-sponsored by the PSG.