IASGO was founded 27 years ago in Amsterdam. We are privileged to have today strong IASGO sections in more than 70 countries, which greatly assists in assessing educational needs. The main goal of this organization has been and remains globalization of medical knowledge and expertise through a well-structured and precisely organized system of continued medical education. It is our belief that medical knowledge and expertise belongs to every human being on this planet, and that has to be available beyond any kind of discrimination, based on individual institutional or national level, to every patient that strives for survival because of challenging and life-threatening diseases.