Table 2.

Accreditation of Qualified Endoscopy Unit Assessment Items in Category: Qualification of Endoscopists

Category	AQEU assessment items
	Mandatory items (9 items)
Required personnel for endoscopy (1 item)	1. Each endoscopy examination room must have at least one endoscopy physician and nursing staff. Personnel for endoscopy must meet all certification assessment criteria.
Endoscopist qualifications (1 item)	1. More than 50% of endoscopy doctors should be KSGE board-certified endoscopy specialists. The remaining doctors should have experience with >1,000 cases of upper gastrointestinal endoscopy and 150 cases of colonoscopy. In case of a change in endoscopy physician at the time of the re-certification evaluation, the initial certification assessment criteria should be met.
Maintaining endoscopist quality (4 items)	1. All endoscopy physicians should complete training courses related to the use of endoscopes with a score of ≥18 in the last 3 years.
	2. All endoscopy physicians should complete training courses related to endoscopy quality controls with a score of ≥6 in the last 3 years.
	3. During the 3-year accreditation period, all upper gastrointestinal endoscopy physicians should perform at least 200 upper gastroscopies per year or the corresponding number of upper gastrointestinal therapeutic endoscopies.
	4. During the 3-year accreditation period, all colonoscopists should perform at least 100 colonoscopies per year or the equivalent number of therapeutic colonoscopies.
Education of endoscopy nurses (2 items)	1. All endoscopy nursing staff must participate in regular maintenance training programs organized by the Korean Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and the Korean Nurse Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy at least once every 3 years.
	2. New endoscopy nursing staff must complete the training program before participating in endoscopic examinations.
Education of new endoscopy nurses (1 item)	1. An education program should be provided when new endoscopy equipment and devices are introduced.
	Recommended item (1 item)
Nursing staff in recovery room (1 item)	1. It is recommended that at least one nurse be present for each 10 beds in the recovery room.

AQEU, accreditation of qualified endoscopy unit; KSGE, Korean Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy.