Young members can apply for the BSGIE travel grant…

• The annual BSGIE meeting in September concludes with an ENDOSCOPY QUIZ, with nice prizes on offer, as well as the chance to win the BSGIE TRAVEL GRANT!
• The BSGIE TRAVEL GRANT has been created to support young endoscopists for attendance at an international gastro-intestinal endoscopy meeting
• Any trainee or “young” endoscopist (aged maximum 35 years & current member of the BSGIE) can apply for the BSGIE TRAVEL GRANT, simply by participating in the ENDOSCOPY QUIZ!
• The trainee or “young endoscopist” with the best result will be awarded a BSGIE travel grant!
• Also older endoscopists” can win nice prizes for their whole endoscopy team, so every BSGIE meeting participant is encouraged to take part in the quiz!!

The BSGIE RESEARCH GRANT aims to promote high quality research in the field of endoluminal endoscopy in or through the gastrointestinal tract or endoscopic therapy of the hepato-bilio-pancreatic systems.

Amount: 20000 €

Application deadline: 31 December 2023

Rules:  Research Grant

Objective: to award the best presentation at the BWGE, section gastro-intestinal endoscopy (BSGIE).

Amount: 250€

Application deadline: Deadline abstract application Belgian Week Gastroenterology, each year. Abstract to be submitted via the BWGE website.

Conditions:

1. The abstract has to be selected for oral prestentation
2. The first author has to present the abstract her/himself
3. Registered member of the BSGIE at the moment of presentation

Objective: to award the best abstract at the BWGE, section gastro-intestinal endoscopy (BSGIE).

Amount: 250€

Application deadline: Deadline abstract application Belgian Week Gastroenterology, each year. Abstract to be submitted via the BWGE website.

Conditions:

1. The abstract has to be selected for oral prestentation
2. Registered member of the BSGIE at the moment of presentation

The aim of our society is …

• to help African countries where we participated in the organization of congresses and improvements in clinical practice

This year, our board member Christophe Snauwaert went to 18th hepato-gastroenterology course in Rabat, Morocco to guide and train african gastro-enterologists. One of these participants, Dr. Sylla Guinee Conakry from Senegal, received our African grant (€ 1500).

BSGIE sends a representative to the Rabat Training Center each year to guide and teach African gastroenterologists.

IRCAD organises a 5-day Intensive Course on Basic Gastrointestinal Endoscopy in Strasbourg held from 23 to 27 October 2023.

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The intensive course on basic digestive endoscopy is intended to provide the knowledge required to perform a high quality endoscopic exploration of the upper, mid and lower gastrointestinal tract in different clinical scenarios.

The BSGIE had the opportunity to offer a free scholarship for 5 Belgian endoscopists in training who will enroll in the GI endoscopy course.

These 5 trainees were randomly selected (by drawing of lots) among the applicants:

Aya Karam
Bastien Weicker
Cédric Peleman
Dhurgham Razooqi
Louis Godin

We wish them an interesting and fruitful course!