The ENDI project
It has been a decade since our team at the Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Unit, under the coordination of Drs. J.C. Gallego, radiologist, and gastroenterologists J. Castro and myself, enthusiastically began the ENDI project. Aware of the role of endoscopy and radiology in the management of IBD, we aimed to develop a digital tool that would gather all its possibilities, indications and practical applications.
Interactive design technical support combined with hours of work and supervision, achieved the 10 three-dimensional models of flagship endoscopic techniques of our project. Diagnostic and therapeutic techniques such as dilation, monitoring of dysplasia with chromoendoscopy or the approach to perianal disease, were contemplated in an innovative way with didactic intent in these ENDI simulation models, awarded in 2014 with the GOLD ASPID. national in the category of “Continuing Training Programs for health professionals”.
It is a satisfaction for me to see how the ENDI project is revitalized in a perfect pairing formed by a national team of gastroenterologist and radiologist coordinators under the support of the teaching area of the Spanish IBD work group, GETECCU. The updated project accessible on the GETECCU website brings together all the necessary characteristics to optimize its basic teaching-training function. The body of the project collects with a practical vision the evidence in the management of the disease, reviewed and updated by an outstanding list of specialists, gastroenterologists and radiologists, who reflect their experience in videos and photographs captured in different contexts. The digital interactivity between sections and the number of images provided by the authors stand out, only comparable to the illusion that the entire team of authors has projected in the work.
When presenting the new updated edition of the ENDI project, I would like to fully assume the words of its first prologue, my admired and beloved Dr. Luis Abreu, head of the Digestive Service of the Puerta de Hierro Hospital for so many years and expert in endoscopy/IBD: “The advantage of being older, if it has any, consists of being able to look back, evaluate what has been done and based on this, illuminate the path of those who come behind. Today I can say with great satisfaction that I was not wrong in trying to instill in all the residents and students who passed through my service the concept that clinical and endoscopic experience are not watertight and isolated compartments, but complementary, and that the development and knowledge “One of them must necessarily be accompanied by the development and knowledge of the other.”
Dra. Ana Echarri Piudo
JS. Digestivo. Complejo Hospitalario Universitario Ferrol