The activities of the sixth annual conference of the Egyptian Society of Gastroenterology, which was held on May 18 and 19, were concluded, under the auspices of Prof. Mahmoud El-Meteini, President of Ain Shams University, and Prof. Ali Al-Anwar, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, at Ain Shams University, headed by Prof. Tarek Youssef, Director of Ain Shams University Hospital and Professor of Internal Medicine, Liver, and Gastroenterology at Ain Shams University.

Prof. Ashraf Hatem, former Minister of Health, member of the Board of Directors of the Egyptian Medical Society, and Chairman of the Health Committee of the People's Assembly, and Prof. Atef Emam, Secretary of the Egyptian Medical Society, attended the opening of the Egyptian Medical Society.

The president of the conference explained that the Egyptian Society of Gastroenterology is concerned with everything related to the digestive system and the liver, and includes doctors interested in specializing, pointing out that this year's conference 2023 is divided into two parts, a practical section, which includes training on diagnostic and interventional gastrointestinal endoscopy, and applied television radiology, in which doctors from universities, the Ministry of Health, the Medical Syndicate, and young doctors from Egypt, the Arab world and Africa such as Sudan and Somalia were trained. A two-day nursing workshop that includes quality standards on one day and on the other, training for endoscopy nurses on the latest techniques and how to deal with endoscopy of the digestive system.

He added that the second section was theoretical, where sick cases were presented for discussion by professors and doctors from specializations in all universities and institutes, the armed forces, the Egyptian police, and the Ministry of Health, from various specializations related to the case, with the aim of presenting realistic cases and how to deal with them and the guidelines for these cases and alerting the importance of cooperation between the specialization of the digestive system, the liver and other specialties in diagnosis and treatment, and shedding light on the overlap between diseases of the digestive system and other specialties such as heart and chest diseases and blood diseases and the importance of cooperation between these specialties to reach a proper diagnosis and treatment.

It is noteworthy that the conference consisted of 20 sessions over the course of two days, and included an important session on the health of pregnant women before and after childbirth and how to deal with various diseases of the digestive system and liver at this stage, and a session on psychosomatic diseases, which is joint between doctors from psychiatry, heart and digestive system, such as irritable bowel diseases, and sessions about new diseases and tumors of the liver, stomach, colon, and pancreas, in the presence of professors from surgery, radiology, oncology, psychiatry, children, and clinical nutrition.

The conference aimed to find out what is new in the world for young doctors, get acquainted with the new guidelines, come up with recommendations for Egyptian patients, and communicate between generations and different specialties.