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Faculty, trainees and Olympus representatives pose together in the lobby of King Abdulaziz University Hospital's Clinical Skills and Simulation Center, beneath an Olympus banner and the official "Colorectal EMR Course — 26 September 2026" signage, marking the conclusion of the SGA × Olympus Colorectal EMR Training Course in Jeddah.
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Education26 September 2026

SGA Concludes Inaugural Colorectal EMR Training Course in Jeddah, in Collaboration with Olympus

Sixteen participants trained today across four hands-on simulation stations at King Abdulaziz University Hospital, putting the lesion-classification and EMR-workflow modules from SGA's online curriculum directly into practice under the course's organizing faculty.

JEDDAH — SGA COLORECTAL EMR TRAINING COURSESGA Newsroom

Faculty, trainees and the Olympus team at the close of the Colorectal EMR Course — King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Jeddah, 26 September 2026.

The Saudi Gastroenterology Association (SGA) concluded its inaugural Colorectal Endoscopic Mucosal Resection (EMR) Training Course today, 26 September 2026, at the Clinical Skills and Simulation Center of King Abdulaziz University Hospital in Jeddah, delivered in collaboration with Olympus.

Announced in August as a comprehensive, practice-oriented programme, the one-day course paired a focused didactic morning with an intensive hands-on afternoon across four parallel simulation stations, with enrolment deliberately capped at 16 participants — four per station — to guarantee close faculty supervision throughout.

"The Jeddah course closes the loop on a model the Society intends to keep using: curated, competency-based online learning feeding directly into small-group, faculty-supervised hands-on training."
— Saudi Gastroenterology Association · Colorectal EMR Training Course, Jeddah, September 2026

What set the day apart was how directly it built on work trainees had already done. In the weeks before the course, enrolled participants worked through SGA's dedicated online EMR Certification curriculum — curated modules covering the Paris, Kudo, NICE and JNET classification systems for colorectal lesions, submucosal injection technique, piecemeal EMR for large lesions, and the recognition and management of bleeding and perforation. Rather than repeating that material from the front of a room, the Jeddah course was built to put it directly into the trainees' hands: the morning's lectures — including Dr. Abdulrahman Qatomah's session on endoscopic polyp evaluation and the risk of submucosal invasion — served as a bridge into the afternoon, where the same trainees characterised lesions, performed injection-and-lift, snare resection, and defect evaluation on live simulation models across the four stations, essentially completing in person the workflow they had studied online.

The course was organized and led by Dr. Majid Alsahafi (King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah) and Dr. Ahmed Kayal (King Abdulaziz University, Rabigh Branch), who served as Course Directors and were responsible for the day's overall structure and scientific programme. At the hands-on stations, Dr. Abdulrahman Qatomah (King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Jeddah) and Dr. Almotasem Rammal (King Abdulaziz Medical City–NGH, Jeddah) worked as instructors, supervising small groups through the full EMR workflow and giving individualized, real-time feedback. Prof. Majid Al Madi (King Saud University, Riyadh), who led the evidence synthesis and educational content behind the online modules trainees studied beforehand, ensured that the didactic material and the hands-on stations spoke to the same evidence base and the same classification frameworks. Olympus clinical specialists worked alongside the faculty at each station, providing device-specific guidance on the endoscopy equipment used throughout the day.

Participants — consultants and advanced or senior GI fellows — will receive a Certificate of Course Completion from the SGA. A second offering of the same curriculum is scheduled for 30 October 2026 in Riyadh, at King Khalid University Hospital, King Saud University Medical City.

For the SGA, the Jeddah course closes the loop on a model the Society intends to keep using: curated, competency-based online learning feeding directly into small-group, faculty-supervised hands-on training — rather than the two running as separate tracks. The Society thanks Olympus for its continued collaboration, and the organizing faculty and King Abdulaziz University Hospital for hosting a course that filled its 16 seats and delivered on the programme announced in August.

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Trainees and faculty in protective gowns gathered around a colon simulation model, handling the endoscope together during a hands-on station.
A hands-on simulation station — trainees work through the EMR workflow together under faculty guidance.
A trainee in a hijab and protective gown operates the endoscope while an instructor points to the lesion displayed on the monitor.
Live feedback at the monitor as a trainee advances the scope toward the target lesion.
Close-up of trainees and faculty gathered around the simulation table with dye-filled basins used for the injection-and-lift technique.
Preparing for submucosal injection-and-lift — dyed solution staged at the simulation station.
Faculty and trainees in protective gowns discussing technique around a hands-on EMR simulation station.
A faculty instructor talks a small group through the next step of the resection.
Trainees in gowns and masks gathered closely around the endoscopy simulation model, one operating the scope controls.
Small-group training — four participants per station, as designed to guarantee close supervision.
A trainee's gloved hands operating the endoscope handle at a hands-on simulation station.
Hands on the scope — building the muscle memory for scope handling and snare deployment.
Faculty and Olympus clinical specialists standing alongside trainees at a simulation station, observing the procedure on the monitor.
Olympus clinical specialists worked alongside faculty at each station throughout the afternoon.
Group of trainees in protective gowns watching a resection technique demonstrated at the simulation station.
A technique demonstration before trainees rotate through the station themselves.
Trainees in yellow protective gowns and masks gathered around the endoscopy monitor reviewing a lesion image.
Reviewing lesion characteristics on-screen before proceeding with resection.
Wide view of a hands-on simulation station with faculty, trainees, and equipment carts arranged around the training table.
One of the four parallel simulation stations that ran throughout the afternoon.
Instructor guiding a trainee's hand technique during snare resection at a simulation station.
Individualized, hands-on correction — a hallmark of the small-group station design.
Trainees and faculty in gowns gathered around the simulation table, one trainee operating the endoscope while others observe.
Peer observation between turns — trainees watched and discussed each other's technique.
Close-up of the endoscopy monitor displaying a simulated colorectal lesion during a hands-on station.
The simulated lesion on-screen, mid-procedure.
Faculty member supervising two trainees working together at a hands-on EMR simulation station.
Faculty supervision throughout — the four-to-one participant ratio kept feedback close and constant.
Trainees in protective gowns and masks working at a simulation station with the endoscopy tower and monitor in the background.
The training floor mid-afternoon, with all four stations running in parallel.
Trainee operating the endoscope at a simulation station while faculty look on and confer.
A final pass through the workflow before the station rotated to the next group.
Lecture hall view of the morning didactic session, with trainees seated facing a presentation screen and the course rollup banner beside the podium.
The didactic morning — lectures on lesion assessment set up the afternoon's hands-on stations.
A presenter addressing seated trainees during the morning lecture session, with the course banner visible beside the screen.
A faculty presenter walks trainees through lesion-assessment technique ahead of the hands-on afternoon.
Presenter delivering the "Endoscopic Polyp Evaluation and Risk of Submucosal Invasion" lecture to seated trainees, beside the "Colorectal EMR Course, 26 September 2026" rollup banner.
Dr. Abdulrahman Qatomah on "Endoscopic Polyp Evaluation and Risk of Submucosal Invasion" — the morning's lesion-assessment session that fed into the afternoon's stations.
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