Gastroenterology

Key learning objectives:

• Develop your understanding of deglutition and dysphagia
• Familiarise yourself with the pathophysiology of:
  • Regurgitation
  • Acute and chronic vomiting
  • Diarrhoea
• Enhance your diagnostic approach to gastrointestinal abnormalities
• Describe the principles and basic use of endoscopy in the diagnosis of gastrointestinal disease and when it is indicated

Key learning objectives:

• Improve your understanding of the pathophysiology of hepatic and hepatobiliary disease
• Devise a systematic diagnostic approach to the jaundiced patient
• Perfect your investigative approach to suspected hepatobiliary disease
• Understand the pathophysiology of exocrine pancreatic disease
• Describe the investigative approach to acute and chronic exocrine pancreatic diseases
• Discuss the therapeutic options in hepatobiliary and pancreatic diseases