Date
8 October 2025
- 9 October 2025
Location
Svendborg Hospital
Registration deadline
20 September 2025

Masterclass in Colonoscopy

About the course

We are hosting a two-day advanced colonoscopy course for medical specialists, featuring both theoretical and interactive teaching sessions.

Target Audience:
Medical specialists or endoscopy nurses who perform screening colonoscopies or conduct a high volume of colonoscopies (>200 annually).

Course Sessions Include:

  • Colonoscopy and Quality Assurance
  • Screening Colonoscopy in Denmark
  • Colonoscopy Techniques and Best Practices
  • Colonic and Rectal Polyps
  • Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Colonoscopy
  • Endoscopy Equipment and Instrumentation
  • Resection of Colorectal Neoplasia
  • Colonoscopy – How? (Interactive Knowledge Sharing)

Day 1 - 2. sal "SALEN", Svendborg Sygehus

08.30 - 09.00 Breakfast

09.00 - 09.15 Welcome and introduction of the participants

Session 1 - Colonoscopy & Quality

09.45 - 10.00 Current quality of colonoscopy in Denmark and Region South
Senior Consultant Anders Høgh

10.00 - 10.15 How is colonoscopy quality measured?
SeniorConsultant Niels Buch

Session 2 - Screening Colonoscopy in Denmark

10.15 - 11.00 Sustained ADR of 75% – how? – Slagelse Hospital
Endoscopy Nurses Karina Bønnebæk & Charlotte Møller

11.00 - 11.15 Coffee Break

11.15 - 11.45 Action plan for Surgical Department A, OUH
Screening colonoscopy – how?
Senior Consultant Anders Høgh

Session 3 - Endoscopy Equipment

11.45 - 12.30 Tower hardware, colonoscopes & diathermy
Consultant Søren Meisner

12.30 - 13.30 Lunch

Session 4 - Optimal Colonoscopy Technique

13.30 - 14.15 Loop-free intubation – Guide to technique and supervision
Consultant Søren Meisner

14.15 - 15.00 Quick guide: Basic colonoscope handling, ADR optimization,
AI & ADR, Tips for colorectal EMR
Consultant Søren Meisner

Session 5 - Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Colonoscopy

15.00 - 15.45 Colonoscopy in IBD patients
Prof. Jens Kjeldsen

15.45 - 16.00 Summary – discussion and knowledge sharing

Program Day 2
Session 6 - Polyps in the Colon & Rectum

08.30 - 08.45 Breakfast & questions from the first day

08.45 - 09.15 The geneticitst's perspective
Overlæge Britta Schlott Kristiansen

09.15 - 09.45 Morphological classification of colon and rectal polyps
Consultant Bo Søndergaard

09.45- 10.45 Optical diagnosis of colon and rectal polyps
Consultant Bo Søndergaard

10.45 - 11.00 Coffee Break

Session 7 - Resection of Colorectal Neoplasia 

11.00 - 11.30 Antithrombotic treatment and polypectomy
Senior Consultant Anders Høgh

11.30 - 12.15 Resection of colorectal neoplasia <20mm
Consultant Søren Meisner

12.15 - 13.00 Lunch

13.00 - 13.30 Resection of larger (>20 mm) colorectal neoplasia
Senior Consultant Niels Buch

13.30 - 14.00 Complications
Senior Consultant Anders Høgh

14.00 - 14.35 The Pathologist’s Perspective
Senior Consultant Lene Gaarsmand Christensen

14.35 - 14.45 Demonstration of en-bloc resection; EID, ESD endoscopic and histopathological
Senior Consultants Lene Gaarsmand & Anders Høgh

Session 8 - Colonoscopy: How? 

14.45 - 15.15 Hydro Colonoscopy
Professor Anastasios Koulaouzidis

15.15 - 15.45 Is AI voted out?
Consultant Søren Meisner

15.45 - 16.00 Summary of the days

Speakers

Consultant Niels Buch
Consultant Anders Høgh
Consultant Søren Meisner

Guest Speakers:
Consultant Britta Schlott Kristiansen, OUH

Consultant Bo Søndergaard, Hvidovre Hospital

Professor Jens Kjeldsen, OUH

Consultant Lene Gaarsmand Christensen, OUH

Professor Anastasios Koulaouzidis, OUH

Endoscopy Nurses Karina Bønnebæk & Charlotte Møller, Slagelse Hospital

SATCC Coordinator Lene von Fintel Petersen

 

Location

Svendborg Hospital, Valdemarsgade 51, 2nd floor "SALEN".

Other information

Registration deadline 20th of September 2025

Course language: Danish

Contact ouh.a.satc@rsyd.dk 

 

Fee

Participants employed in the Region of Southern Denmark are excempted course fees according to a sponsorship from the region.

Other participants Course fee: 2000 kr.