The document summarizes the Train the Trainer course hosted by the American College of Gastroenterology (ACG) in Houston, Texas from July 12-15, 2012. The goal of the course was to provide gastroenterology fellows, junior faculty, and other trainees with training and skills in medical education. Over 40 participants from across the United States and Canada attended lectures and workshops led by expert faculty on topics related to teaching, research, career development, and work-life balance. Evaluations showed the course met its objectives and participants found it a valuable use of their time to enhance their own training programs. The success was attributed to support from ACG and engaged faculty and participants.

1. ACG’s
Train the Trainer-USA
for PDs and Junior Faculty
Amy S. Oxentenko, MD, FACP, FACG
Associate Professor of Medicine
Fellowship Director, Mayo Clinic-Rochester

2. History Behind the Course
• World Gastroenterology
Organization
– aka WGO
• Federation of 108 national societies
and 4 regional associations of GI
representing over 50,000 members
• Training centers, global guidelines,
outreach services, train-the-trainer

3. WGO
Train the Trainer (TTT)
Mission
• The Train the Trainers (TTT) program brings
together trainers from across the globe in an
intensive and interactive 4 day workshop,
dedicated to the development of teaching and
training skills. WGO has developed a forum for
interaction between world leaders in
education, for the sharing of experience and
the discussion of common problems.

4. WGO TTT Course
• First meeting in Crete, Greece 2001
• Subsequent locations: Brazil, China,
New Zealand, Chile, Uruguay, South
Africa, Florida and Portugal (2013)
• Each society that has membership
within the WGO can send 2 members
• Taught by education leaders in GI

5. In the Beginning…July 2010
• Larry Schiller
• Jack Di Palma
• Myself
• Baylor in Dallas, TX
• Gave a Saturday faculty development
course on educational topics
• Open to all PDs, EPCs, others

6. What more can we do?
Train the Trainer-USA?

7. Timeline of Development
• Request from Larry Schiller 11/22/11
• Program outline created 12/20/12
• Tentative speakers listed 12/22/12
• Speakers all confirmed 3/7/12
• Course advertized 4/17/12
• Deadline for applications 5/15/12
• Applicants confirmed 5/18/12
• First TTT-USA 7/12/12

9. Details
• Location: Houston, TX
• Hotel: The Westin Houston
• Dates: July 12-15, 2012
• Hours: Thurs 7 pm-9 pm
Fri/Sat 8 am-7 pm
Sun 8 am-noon

10. Participant Make-Up
• 67 applications
• 40 accepted
– ACG members PLUS
– Instructors or assistant professors
– Program directors
– Associate program directors
• 2:1 male to female ratio
• 23 different states, 2 from Canada
• ACG covered participant expenses

11. The Faculty
• Jack Di Palma • Christina Surawicz
– Co-Director • Doug Drossman
• Amy Oxentenko • David Bjorkman
– Co-Director
• Amy Foxx-Orenstein
• Larry Schiller • Ron Szyjkowski
• Ron Vender
• Eamonn Quigley

12. THE PROGRAM DETAILS
Physician- The Problem Negotiating Tricks for Teaching
Patient Trainee for Your Improved Procedural
Interactions: Academic Manuscript Skills
How to be Needs Preparation
Better
Doctors
Principles of Faculty Networking Basics of Assessing
Adult Development: Skills Grant Writing Procedural
Education Finding Tools Skills
You Need
Assessing Presentation The Keys to Clinical Trial How to
Your Learner Skills Academic Designs Manage your
Promotion Practice
Clinical Writing Test EBM: Why The Keys to
Teaching: Questions Lit Search & Research Work-Life
Bedside vs. Critical Matters Balance
Classroom Appraisal
How to Choosing & Preparing
Evaluate/ Give Maintaining Abstracts,
Feedback an Academic Orals &
Career Posters

13. Faculty and Participant
Expectations
• ALL participants and faculty present
for ALL events and be ON TIME
• Each session needed to be
interactive; avoid lecture-style alone
• Participants encouraged to move
around for each half day session
• Teaching “pearls” shared throughout

14. Evaluation Of Course Score
This course was a valuable use of my time. 4.73
I will apply knowledge/skills I learned in this course to enhance
the education in my GI Fellowship Program. 4.92
This activity will improve my ability to effectively teach and train
GI Fellows. 4.81
This activity met the stated objectives. 4.76
I would recommend this course to a colleague. 4.81
I would attend similar programs in the future:
YES 34
NO 0
MAYBE 1

15. An Example of the Feedback
• Phenomenal course overall – very relevant topics. All speakers
were champions in GI – all with different experiences &
perspectives. Strongly evident that speakers were all genuinely
interested in furthering our careers. I have learned many things
from this course that will allow me to reach my goals.
• Thank you, thank you, thank you. This was an outstanding
program and I am quite grateful to have attended. It felt like a
seminal moment in my career.
• This course has provided invaluable networking and provided
tools to educate the other faculty at my home institutions, to
better teach the trainees and to advance my career.
• This was the most informative, applicable conference that I have
ever attended as a faculty member. I sincerely thank everyone
who was involved in planning and implementing these sessions.

16. The Keys to the TTT Success
• Generosity of the ACG to fund the course
• Incredible ACG staffing (Brad and Maria)
• Willingness of amazing faculty to donate
their time and efforts
• Eager participants who were engaged and
fully vested in the course’s mission

17. What Could be Improved?
• Longer timeline to work with
– More advanced notice for participants to
block schedules at work
• Replace some sessions with the
changing educational milieu
• Gear more towards junior faculty only
• Shorter days? (but longer course?)
• Planned social events at night?

18. Will we do it again???
I sure hope so!!!

19. Thank you!
oxentenko.amy@mayo.edu