General Surgery: Specialist Gastroenterology

Course Description

There are 10 lectures contained in this course:

• Benign and Malignant Diseases of the Colon and Rectum – Tracey D. Arnell, MD
• GI Physiology: The Gut is Not a Passive Organ – Tracey D. Arnell, MD
• Surgical Endoscopy, Top to Bottom – Tracey D. Arnell, MD
• The Big Decisions in Bariatric Surgery – Melissa B. Bagloo, MD
• Adrenal, Endocrine Pancreas, Pituitary – Tobias Carling, MD, PhD
• Thyroid and Parathyroid – Tobias Carling, MD, PhD
• Principles of Fluids and Electrolytes – Russel J. Crew, MD
• Inflammatory and Malignant Diseases of the Colon – Daniel Feingold, MD
• Motility and Other Esophageal Problems – Lyall A. Gorenstein, MD
• The Pathophysiology of Laparoscopic Surgery and How to Avoid Problems – Brian Jacob, MD, FACS
• Inflammatory and Malignant Diseases of the Pancreas – Daniel Mark Labow, MD

​What you will learn

• Those who complete the entire program should be able to:
• Summarise screening procedures and diagnostic criteria for gastrointestinal cancers
• Identify approaches to gastrointestinal bleeding
• Appropriately treat patients with upper gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding based on the source of bleeding and comorbidities
• Recognise patients who require admission to the intensive care unit for upper GI bleeding and who are at high risk for re bleeding