EduCom
27April2023

Report on the 3rd ECCO Postgraduate Course in IBD at ECCO'23

Henit Yanai, GuiCom Member and Pascal Juillerat, e-Learning Ambassador

Henit Yanai
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Pascal Juillerat

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The 3rd ECCO Postgraduate Course in IBD, entitled "It's getting more complicated!", was successfully held on-site during the 18th ECCO Congress in Copenhagen in March 2023. The course was split into two sessions, with the first session focusing on common complications in IBD practice, which were presented by renowned speakers who are key opinion leaders in the field. The second session was an interactive discussion with expert panelists, who discussed two vignettes that looked at practical assessment and decision making in the context of complicated Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis.

Posted in ECCO News, ECCO'23, EduCom, Committee News, Volume 18, Issue 1

27April2023

Report on the 10th ECCO Ultrasound Workshop – Advanced in collaboration with ESGAR & IBUS

Mariangela Alloca, EduCom Member


Mariangela Allocca 
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Finally, after a hiatus of two years owing to the global COVID-19 pandemic, the 10th ECCO Ultrasound Workshop – Advanced in collaboration with ESGAR & IBUS took place physically at ECCO’23 in Copenhagen.

Posted in ECCO News, ECCO'23, EduCom, Committee News, Congress News, Volume 18, Issue 1

27April2023

Report on the 4th ECCO Basic Imaging Workshop in collaboration with ESGAR & IBUS

Mariangela Alloca, EduCom Member and Uri Kopylov, EduCom Member

Ultrasound and MRI Portion


Mariangela Allocca
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Uri Kopylov
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The 4th ECCO Basic Imaging Workshop in collaboration with ESGAR & IBUS opened with two introductory lectures on what to look for in intestinal ultrasound (IUS) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), given by Christian Maaser (Germany) and Pasquale Paolantonio (Italy), respectively. These lectures introduced the hands-on part of the workshop. Delegates (n=60 in the morning and 60 in the afternoon session) were subdivided into small groups at 12 different stations, where, with the support of expert tutors – one radiologist and one gastroenterologist – they interactively discussed MRI exams and performed sonographic evaluations, employing hands-on IUS simulators on different IBD cases.

Posted in ECCO News, ECCO'23, EduCom, Committee News, Congress News, Volume 18, Issue 1

27April2023

Report on the 21st ECCO IBD Intensive Course for Trainees

Konstantinos Karmiris, EduCom Chair


Konstantinos Karmiris
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The 21st ECCO IBD Intensive Course for Trainees was held on March 1, 2023 as part of ECCO’s educational programme. This is ECCO’s oldest and most established course. This year, a total of 72 participants from 35 countries from Europe and elsewhere attended the course and were offered a comprehensive update on IBD. The course focused on pivotal insights into the management of IBD patients in an interactive manner.

Posted in ECCO News, ECCO'23, EduCom, Committee News, Congress News, Volume 18, Issue 1

19December2022

A letter from the e-Learning Ambassador

Pascal Juillerat, e-Learning Ambassador

Pascal Juillerat 
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Dear ECCO Members,

Greetings to you and your families! I am sure you are all looking forward to the holidays and spending some quality time with all your loved ones.

I am excited to announce our revamped e-CCO Learning Platform!

With the new, and completely re-designed website, everything you need is now just one click away. The three main pillars of the e-Learning platform are now front and centre: The IBD Curriculum is here to serve you! It is a complete and comprehensive curriculum which outlines the need-to-know for gastroenterologists in order to develop expertise in the field of IBD. The e-Guide is a practical tool to help you manage IBD patients by visualising the ECCO Guidelines as algorithms based on the main UC and CD ECCO Guidelines. Of course, the guidance given by the ECCO e-Guide is based on evidence and validated processes. The e-Library, is your portal to access our large selection of IBD content! Anything from Congress Presentations, Videos, Podcasts, Tools and Skills, Congress Abstracts and much more!

With the re-designed website, you are now able to access all of the content with your mobile phone or tablet, too.

Posted in ECCO News, EduCom, Committee News, Volume 17, Issue 4

13October2022

Introduction to ECCO’23 Imaging Workshops

Christian Maaser, EduCom Member and Uri Kopylov, EduCom Member

4th ECCO Basic Imaging Workshop in Collaboration with ESGAR & IBUS


Christian Maaser
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Uri Kopylov
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In 2023 the Educational Programme at the ECCO Congress will again include two combined workshops devoted to the imaging of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBD). The first will be centered on basic endoscopy, ultrasound and MRI while the second will focus on advancements in intestinal ultrasound. Both workshops will be possible thanks to the extensive cooperation of gastroenterologists with experience in intestinal imaging from ECCO and our partner societies, the European Society of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology (ESGAR) and the International Bowel Ultrasound (IBUS) group.

The 4th ECCO Basic Imaging Workshop in collaboration with ESGAR and IBUS will educate attendees in how to make a precise diagnosis and how to better direct the therapeutic management of IBD patients using the latest imaging technologies. It is designed for gastroenterologists, endoscopists, surgeons, paediatricians, pathologists and other interdisciplinary medical experts interested in diagnostic imaging and endoscopy of IBD. The course has been highly successful and much requested over the past few years, and we have decided to run it twice on the same day this year to enable more participants to attend.

Posted in ECCO News, ECCO'23, EduCom, Committee News, Congress News, Volume 17, Issue 3

13October2022

Introduction to the 21st IBD Intensive Course for Trainees

Kostas Karmiris, EduCom Member



Konstantinos Karmiris
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The 21st ECCO IBD Intensive Course for Trainees, Copenhagen 2023

The IBD Intensive Course for Trainees will take place over one day on Wednesday, March 1, 2023, prior to the start of the main ECCO Congress.

 The ECCO IBD Intensive Course for Trainees has become a tradition. It is the oldest ECCO Educational Initiative, having been conceived back in 2003 before the launch of the ECCO Congress, and is the cornerstone of the Educational Committee’s activities. I remember attending the “2nd Intensive Clinical Course for Residents, Fellows and Junior Faculty”, delivered as an affiliated course during the 140th Falk Symposium in Dubrovnik, Croatia, in 2004. This was perhaps the most comprehensive IBD course that I had ever attended as a trainee and it inspired me to further in-depth engagement with IBD.

Posted in ECCO News, ECCO'23, EduCom, Committee News, Congress News, Volume 17, Issue 3

15June2022

Report on the 68th ECCO Educational Workshop, Cascais, Portugal

YoungGEDII - Paula Sousa, Joana Roseira, Maria Manuela Estevinho & Sónia Bernardo


Young GEDII
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The 68th ECCO Educational Workshop took place at the Hotel Cascais Miragem on April 6, 2022, in Cascais, Portugal. This event - the first ECCO live meeting since the COVID 19 pandamic - brought together more than 120 participants and was the perfect launch to GEDII’s Annual Meeting, which began on the following day. The workshop featured interactive discussion on various clinical scenarios and hot topics in IBD.

Posted in ECCO News, EduCom, Committee News, Volume 17, Issue 2

15June2022

Call for 2023 ECCO Educational Workshop Destinations



The primary goal of the Educational Workshops organised by the ECCO Education Committee is to harmonise IBD practices within ECCO Country Members by presenting the practical use of the ECCO Guidelines on Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis.

Posted in ECCO News, EduCom, Committee News, Volume 17, Issue 2

15June2022

A letter from the e-Learning Ambassador

Pascal Juillerat, e-Learning Ambassador

Pascal Juillerat 
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Dear ECCO Members,

I hope all of you were able to enjoy the short Easter break with your families and loved ones.

I also hope that you enjoyed the exciting scientific and educational programmes at the ECCO’22 Congress back in February. In case you missed or would like to re-watch some of the content, you can find all the recordings on our e-Library. Please note that access to this service and all of our wonderful content requires an up-to-date ECCO Membership.

Posted in ECCO News, EduCom, Committee News, Volume 17, Issue 2