Definition of the Association

Türk Gastroenteroloji Derneği is a national specialist association working to protect the rights and interests of gastroenterology specialists in Turkey. Its members are physicians who diagnose and treat digestive system diseases in adults.

Mission

As Türk Gastroenteroloji Derneği, our mission is to protect the rights and interests of gastroenterology specialists, improve clinical standards, contribute to their education and development, and lead the way in providing higher quality healthcare services to our public.

Vision

Our vision as Türk Gastroenteroloji Derneği is to:

• Conduct studies, develop policies, and provide recommendations to health authorities regarding the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of digestive system diseases,
• Stimulate interest in gastroenterology and provide educational and scholarship support to gastroenterology specialists both domestically and internationally,
• Organize international congresses and symposiums to increase and update the knowledge of its members,
• Actively collaborate with national and international scientific organizations related to gastroenterology,
• Encourage and organize scientific research and studies,
• Inform the public through various media channels to better understand gastrointestinal system diseases and explain the job description of a gastroenterologist,
• Determine the management of the Turkish Journal of Gastroenterology, which is the association’s publication and owner, contribute to its publication, provide economic resources for its release, and support efforts to increase its impact factor,
• Ensure that competency boards are organized, operate regularly, and make recommendations and carry out activities in this regard,
• Be an institution that works in coordinated and full harmony with sub-associations.
• Furthermore, our vision is to be an institution that, after 2017, has resolved staffing issues with political authorities to reach the required number of gastroenterologists in the country, hosted the World Congress of Gastroenterology in Turkey in 2019, supported members with potential legal issues through association lawyers, trained more members at national and international levels, and contributed to the public receiving higher quality healthcare services. Additionally, expanding board examinations and ensuring the criteria and standardization of subspecialty training in parallel with the core curriculum are priority goals.

Transparency and participation will be its fundamental principles while fulfilling all these duties.

Goals

• To explain to the public who a gastroenterology specialist is,
• To unite gastroenterology specialists under one roof,
• To strive for the improvement of the social and personal rights of its members,
• To protect the interests of gastroenterology by prioritizing public health in cases where other scientific fields interfere with interventions, diagnoses, and treatments falling within the scope of gastroenterology,
• Conduct studies, develop policies, and provide recommendations to health authorities regarding the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of digestive system diseases,
• To guide the improvement of training center standards,
• To strive for the creation of a subspecialty core curriculum, the establishment of training criteria and standardization, and the encouragement of board examinations,
• To contribute to cooperation among public, university, and private institutions,
• To create rich web content for both physicians and the public in the digital environment,
• To provide financial support and incentive activities for research projects,
• To prioritize the problems of subspecialty residents,
• To increase the preference for gastroenterology in subspecialty choices.

The administrations of Türk Gastroenteroloji Derneği will continue their work in accordance with its statutes, as they have done to date.

Kudos to those who foresaw this day 66 years ago, and kudos to those who founded Türk Gastroenteroloji Derneği and entrusted it to our country and our community! We respectfully salute the founders of our association once again and wish God’s mercy upon those we have lost. We extend our gratitude and thanks to everyone who has kept Türk Gastroenteroloji Derneği alive, elevated it on their shoulders, created its world-renowned journal, organized national congresses, and contributed their efforts since its establishment.