ANZGITA is the supporting partner in the World Gastroenterology Organisation's (WGO) Training Centre located in the Colonial War Memorial Hospital's (CWMH) Endoscopy Unit which operates in association with Fiji National University's (FNU) College of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences (CMNHS).
A 4 week period of concentrated training is held annually at the WGO Training Centre in Colonial War Memorial Hospital and during the time when the gastroenterology module of FNU's School of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences postgraduate Diploma and Masters curriculum is being conducted.
Physicians, surgeons and nurses from Pacific Island countries who are not enrolled in these courses also attend the training program. Attendees, in turn, have established services at their home hospitals. Since 2008, trainees have come from Fiji, Kiribati, Samoa, Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Solomons Islands, Tonga and other Pacific Island countries and territories.
Medical training, predominantly in gastroenterology, is delivered through lectures and tutorials and through involvement in clinical practice such as ward rounds. Structured assessments of competency are completed, with physician trainees being assessed as they enter the program and as they leave - with a measurement of the competencies achieved in the month so documented.
This opportunity is located in Suva, Fiji.
