Endoscopic training in the academic GI program. Program Directors Workshop, March 29 and 30, 1984, Atlanta, Georgia. How the GI pathologist can interact best with the GI trainee.

Effective collaboration between endoscopists is essential if optimal results from gastrointestinal biopsy are to be achieved. Agreed upon ways to enhance communication should be established, such as special requisition forms and regular conferences to discuss biopsy findings. Endoscopists and pathologists should know about and feel free to discuss the other specialist's procedures and techniques. Furthermore, all procedures and techniques for obtaining, handling, and reaching diagnostic conclusions from biopsy specimens need to be carefully examined and optimized. Recommended approaches are presented.