JAG: Expectations from the trainees

Gerry RobinsConsultant Gastroenterologist

JETS Trust AdministratorYork

Aims

• Brief background

• What a local JAG administrator needs to know

• What the trainee needs to do

• Requirements for being “signed off”

• Questions

What is JAG

• Joint Advisory Group• Set up 1994

– Through Acadamy of Royal Medical Colleges• RCsP, RCsS, RCR and RCGP

– Committees• Primarily executive committee

– Agrees and sets policy and strategy– Advises it’s constituent bodies and DH, GMC, NHS, etc

• Administration Team– Based at RCPLond

What JAG Does• Initially aimed at Doctors in training

• Greater emphasis on improved standards for training and education. 

• Nurse endoscopists becoming a highly significant part of the workforce. 

• Acceptance that high quality training can largely only take place in high quality units. 

• Realisation that the impact of service cannot be removed from having an influence on training. 

• Implementation of bowel cancer screening for the UK, for which JAG was asked to oversee quality of endoscopists and of endoscopy units. 

• Implementation of unit accreditation across all sectors.

What JAG Does

• TRAINEE CERTIFICATION– Gastroscopy– Flexible sigmoidoscopy– Colonoscopy– ERCP– BCSP

JETS• JAG Endoscopy Training System

– ePortfolio– https://www.jets.nhs.uk/Default.aspx

Diagnostic Gastroscopy (OGD)

Flexible sigmoidoscopy

Colonoscopy

Others

• ERCP

• EUS

• Paediatric endoscopy

• BCSP

Questions