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Welcome to the 2025 Advanced Coloproctology Course (ACC 2025) - The flagship educational course of the ACPGBI.

26th and 27th March 2025

Become an ACPGBI member today through this link and you will be able to register to ACC 2025 for free.

This event will be accredited by the ACPGBI for 10 CPD points.

As President of ACPGBI and Chair of the ACPGBI Education and Training Committee, it is our pleasure to welcome you all to the annual Advanced Coloproctology Course 2025!

The course has been running successfully for more than 30 years, and it will be the 5th year of delivering the course in its virtual format. Being able to deliver the course online is important to us as it opens up the course to a wider audience – consultants, trainees, and allied healthcare professionals, both in the UK and overseas.

Welcome to the Tripartite organisations!

For 2025, in the year of the Paris Tripartite meeting, the course extends its reach to welcome the Presidents of the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons, the Colorectal Surgical Society of Australia and New Zealand, the European Society of Coloproctology and the Royal Society of Medicine Coloproctology Section. We are looking forward to an exciting global event!

Watch the highlights from 2024

Content

The ACPGBI Advanced Coloproctology Course is well known for its professionally produced, high quality educational content. The course provides clinical updates for colorectal and general surgeons at all levels, including providing comprehensive revision for surgical residents sitting the FRCS examination. The live streamed clinical content covers reviews and updates of conditions seen in every day practice as well as less commonly encountered clinical areas. Whilst the focus remains on colorectal surgery, there is content that will be valuable for all general surgeons with content on areas such as emergency surgery, perioperative care and the abdominal wall. The course provides external CPD points and evidence of CPD across multiple areas of practice as required as part of the appraisal and revalidation processes.

Expert faculty

The diverse faculty have been carefully selected to deliver concise, expert talks on their subjects, including links to the latest evidence, videos and tips and tricks for practical procedures. In addition to the presentations, the panel discussions during each session allow further in depth debate and discussion.

Interactive and On Demand

Virtual functionality provides all members of the audience the opportunity to take part in polls and ask questions of the panel via our chairs. Our experienced team of moderators review audience questions in real time and add website links and research evidence to the online platform to support further reading. The virtual format also allows us to deliver the content “on-demand” for several months after the course for those wishing to watch it at their convenience. All attendees also receive access to the virtual abstract book, with abstracts of each talk provided by all our speakers.

Mapped to the FRCS curriculum

The course offers exceptional value both in its low cost to its audience and its time efficient covering of the FRCS syllabus over the course of each 3-year cycle. The content is mapped to the FRCS curriculum and the 2 days start with real time viva sessions and feedback for volunteers preparing for the FRCS section 2. Out of consideration for those volunteering for the viva workshops we do not record or make those sessions available “on demand”.

Widening participation

Our aim is to keep registration costs as low as possible to widen accessibility. We have frozen the registration fees for 2025 and have kept the fees as low as possible for ACPGBI and Dukes’ Club members as a membership benefit. Once again, we are pleased to announce that this year there will be no course registration fee for those from low-income and middle-income countries**. This would not be possible without the significant support from our industry sponsors and we also thank the executive and Trustees of ACPGBI for their support.

Feedback

Since its virtual inception the feedback from attendees each year has been outstanding. The course continues to evolve and we are hoping that ACC 2025 will be the best yet!

Register today!

Nicola Eardley, Chair of the ACPGBI Education and Training Committee

Justin Davies, ACPGBI President

Ticket prices

*Including locally employed doctors at resident doctor level and fellows.

**This applies exclusively to new members who have not held membership within the past two years.

***If you are based in a country stated on this list you are entitled to attend the event for free, as defined by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Please register by selecting the 'HCPs from low-middle income countries' ticket option.

Please register by selecting the appropriate ticket group.

Please note that registrations will be cross-checked against the ACPGBI membership database.

NOTE: For event ticket sales, SaySo Medical is acting as an agent for The Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland (ACPGBI)

Have you thought about becoming a member of the ACPGBI?

The ACPGBI gives you a voice in influencing current coloproctology practice.

Every member receives our full range of benefits and services, including:

• Free online subscription to Colorectal Disease
• Eligibility for significant BRUK research funding
• Substantial discounts on the ACPGBI Annual Meeting
• Showcasing your skills in the ACPGBI Specialist Directory
• Member-only bi-weekly newsletter and multimedia content
• Access to a comprehensive set of colorectal disease resources and guidelines, including consent forms
• A national voice for all colorectal specialists and those offering emergency colorectal services
• Opportunities for engagement with the Association to influence national and international policy
• Working with specialists and patients to improve quality via our Patient Liaison Group
• Access to treatment-specific patient information sheets
• Strong links with other National and International societies
• Networking opportunities via a range of local educational chapter meetings
• Exclusive member discounts
• Professional support and mentorship in times of difficulty.

We strongly encourage overseas members with the aim of collaborating and enhancing the care of patients with colorectal disease on a global scale. Such members receive all of these benefits at a reduced fee.

The online application takes just 15 minutes. Click here for more information and to apply.

If you are interested in sponsoring this event, please contact ASutton@acpgbi.org.uk