Educator Resources
- GastroSlides
- Functional GI Disorders Computer-Based Learning Program
- Small-Group Educational Programs
- Morton I. Grossman Lecture
GastroSlides
The AGA Institute's GastroSlides, the field’s most extensive collection of GI and liver images, offer you maximum flexibility by allowing you to customize the slides based on your specific needs. Developed by internationally renowned experts, these state-of-the-art slides combine the latest basic and clinical science with stunning artwork and innovative graphics to explain the complex concepts and processes of digestive diseases in presentations and lectures.
With more than 4,000 images in its repository, GastroSlides offers you:
- The ability to search by keyword or topic to help you quickly and easily locate slides relevant to your needs.
- The flexibility to prepare new individualized slides using the components of existing images to create customized slides for different lectures.
- An extensive citation resource that can be used for lectures and serve as a permanent reference tool.
More than 1,500 GastroSlides images cover liver disease topics such as hepatocelluar carcinoma, autoimmune liver disease, cirrhosis and portal hypertension, NAFLD, and viral hepatitis. GI topics include digestive health and disease in women, GI endoscopic imaging (only available on CD-ROM), pancreatitis, IBD, IBS, Barrett's esophagus, and the genetic and molecular basis of gastrointestinal and liver disease.
Plus, GastroSlides offers affordable pricing options allowing you to buy slides individually as you need them or purchase an annual subscription and have access to the entire GastroSlides library for one year.
View and Order Slides.
Download free GastroSlides images on liver cancer.
GastroSlides is a continuing education resource directed by the Education and Training Committee of the AGA Institute
Functional GI Disorders Computer-Based Learning Program
The “Computer-Based Learning Program”, endorsed by the AGA Institute, brings to life information from the Rome III book, and also updates this information from the recent scientific literature. These state-of-the-art slides include animations and videos, conceptual slides that communicate ideas that may otherwise seem difficult to convey, and key studies from the literature. Notes and legends for every slide give a description of the slide with key references. Specialty modules include Primary Care/Health-Care Extender, IBS, constipation and dyspepsia.
You can order the complete program consisting of all ten modules (more than 750 images) for $500. You may also purchases slides individually. This product is available at www.theromefoundation.org.
Training In Small-Group Educational Programs
The AGA Institute along with several members participated in a training session in Chicago for conducting interactive, small-group educational programs associated with changes in physicians' behavior. These sessions were held in Chicago, in May of 2009.
Ill-structured case studies can be used in this format to illustrate clinical issues while providing physicians with an effective opportunity to learn, practice, and incorporate new knowledge into their practices in a welcoming environment with their colleagues. This format also allows for peer feedback and individual self-assessment.
In this video Robert D. Fox, EdD, professor emeritus, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Oklahoma gives an overview describing research about how physicians learn and change their practices and how these findings and models are used in small-group, case-based, interactive CME activities.
He also discusses small-group dynamics and demonstrates how to facilitate these activities to ensure that optimal levels of participant learning, feedback, and self-assessment take place.
Dr. Fox's approach to narrative and engagement with the learner will be of interest to both veteran and less experienced educators.
Dr. Fox Video Part 1 - coming soon
Dr. Fox Video Part 2 - coming soon
The Morton I. Grossman Lecture
Cynthia Kenyon, PhD, director of the Hillblom Center for the Biology of Aging, department of biochemistry and biophysics at UCSF, delivered the AGA Foundation's Morton I. Grossman Distinguished Lectureship at DDW 2009. Her lecture is titled “From Worms to Mammals: Genes and Cells That Regulate the Aging Process.”
In 1993, Dr. Kenyon and colleagues' discovery that a single-gene mutation could double the lifespan of C. elegans sparked an intensive study of the molecular biology of aging. These findings have now led to the discovery that an evolutionarily conserved hormone signaling system controls aging in other organisms as well, including mammals.
The Morton I. Grossman Lecture was established in 1989 by a group of UCLA Center for Ulcer Research and Education (CURE) Digestive Disease Research Center investigators and alumni wishing to commemorate the contributions of CURE's founder and first director. Dr. Morton I. Grossman is considered the father of modern gastrointestinal endocrine physiology. His most important contributions lay in defining the secretory mechanisms of the stomach and pancreas and the actions of regulatory gastrointestinal peptides.
Grossman Lecture - coming soon
