Dr Philip Smith, Deputy Editor and Associate Editor of FG and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK interviews Dr Keith Siau, Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust, Truro, Cornwall, UK and Dr Aravinth Murugananthan, Consultant Gastroenterologist at The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, Wolverhampton, UK and Director of the Midlands Endoscopy Training Academy on the paper 'JAG consensus statements for training and certification in colonoscopy’ published online in Frontline Gastroenterology in January 2023 and available online: https://fg.bmj.com/content/early/2023/01/26/flgastro-2022-102260