PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCIES OF ENDOSCOPISTS PARTICIPATING IN THE STATE COLORECTAL CANCER SCREENING PROGRAM IN KAZAKHSTAN

The role of screening colonoscopy is the diagnosis of malignant colon neoplasms, the evaluation of other positive screening tests, the detection and removal of precancerous lesions.
Materials and methods: endoscopists were questioned, descriptive statistics methods were used.
Results and discussion: Data on the levels of endoscopists competence are presented according to the European guidelines for quality assurance in colorectal cancer screening and diagnosis (Segnan N., Patnick J., von Karsa L.).
Conclusion: Among 68 doctors (63.0 ± 4.65% of respondents) who perform screening colonoscopy, only a third of them (25 doctors) comply with the European standard of a doctor who can participate in CRC screening

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