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    Welcome to The Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES)

    SAGES represents a worldwide community of surgeons that can bring minimal access surgery, endoscopy and emerging techniques to patients in every country. We represent over 6,000 surgeons and allied health professionals.

    2011 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

    12th World Congress Final Program Available

    12th World Congress CME Claim Form and Meeting Survey

     

    SAGES STEP (Surgeons Training Endoscopic Proficiency) Application

    Flexible endoscopy is increasingly central to the practice of general surgery. As many as 50% of practicing surgeons depend on colonoscopy and upper endoscopy for a substantial portion of their practice; conversely, many communities in the US and Canada rely on their general surgeon to provide access to essential endoscopic procedures. Finally, there is a natural evolution of surgical disease treatments towards less invasive alternatives which increasingly includes interventional flexible endoscopic alternatives to surgical approaches. Procedures such as common bile duct exploration, pancreatic pseudocyst drainage, colectomy for benign neoplasm, esophagectomy for Barretts disease and many others are no longer approached in a traditional surgical manner. As this list grows, surgeons will find themselves increasingly cut out of the treatment of these diseases unless they adopt interventional endoscopic approaches. Recognizing this, the American Board of Surgery has recently increased the residency training requirements for flexible endoscopy. This creates a burden for residency program directors who often lack both the equipment and curricula to train residents in the fundamentals of flexible endoscopy. In an effort to promote surgeon’s involvement in flexible endoscopy and to help program directors to train their residents, SAGES and Olympus have developed the STEP program.

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    SAGES 2011 Meeting Information

    The next SAGES Annual Meeting is:

    2011 SAGES Scientific Session & Postgraduate Course

    March 30 - April 2, 2011
    San Antonio Convention Center, San Antonio, TX

    Call for Abstracts!

    Exhibitor Prospectus available by Summer 2010
    Advance Regsitration to open by December 1, 2010

    The SAGES Video Library Is Available on SAGES.TV

    SAGES.TV ( http://www.sages.tv/ ) is our new home for the SAGES Video Library, SAGES Meeting Replays, and member-submitted video. SAGES.TV is FREE to view and requires no registration.

    Members: we recommend you login before using SAGES.TV so that you can access enhanced member options!

    2010 Digital Poster Sessions Up!

    We are happy to announce that the 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 Poster Sessions are now available online for FREE viewing. Nearly 2,000 posters can be viewed from any computer or mobile device with the free Flash player installed.

    If you have any questions about the Digital Posters or feedback, contact .