Footnotes

• SMN and ES are joint first authors.

• X @mujtabahasnain, @esaunsbury, @DrSunnyR

• Contributors SAR and SMHN conceptualised and designed the study. Data was collected by SMHN, SAR and HB. Data was analysed by SAR and interpreted by SAR, ES and YH. The letter was drafted by SMHN with contributions from SAR, ES and YH and reviewed and approved by all authors. SAR is the guarantor of this letter.

• Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

• Competing interests Authors are/were part of the British Society of Gastroenterology Trainees Section.

• Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.

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