(Two-year) Curriculum in GI Clinical Conferences as arranged by Topics

Gastroenterology

Esophagus

• Medical Therapy of GERD
• Surgical Therapy of GERD
• Barretts esophagus
• Esophageal cancer
• Manometry and esophageal dysmotility
• Pediatric GERD/reflux

Gastric

• Peptic Ulcers
• Gastric Volvulus
• Gastric carcinoids
• Gastric cancer
• Gastroparesis
• Bariatric surgery

Small Bowel/Colon

• Chronic Diarrhea
• Celiac Sprue
• Pseudo-membranous colitis
• Pseudo-obstruction (Ogilvies)
• Anorectal manometry and incontinence
• Neutropenic enterocolitis
• Colonic volvulus
• Microscopic colitis
• Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (3 talks)
• Eosinophilic enterocolitis
• Colonic Polyposis Syndromes/Hereditary Non-polyposis Colon Cancer syndrome
• Mesenteric Ischemia
• Colon Cancer
• Colon cancer screening
• Ostomies/Anastomoses/Pouches
• Graft vs Host Disease
• Infectious Diarrhea
• Food allergies

Pancreas

• Acute Pancreatitis
• Chronic pancreatitis
• Cystic Pancreatic neoplasms and Intraductal papillary mucinous tumors
• Islet cell tumors of pancreas
• Pancreatic adenocarcinoma
• Pancreatic pseudo-cyst management

Hepatology/ (Biliary)

• Liver mass evaluation
• Approach to abnormal LFTs
• Hemochromatosis
• Wilson’s disease
• Hepatitis B
• Hepatitis C
• Hepatic encephalopathy
• Variceal and portal hypertensive bleeding
• Ascites and hepatorenal syndrome
• Primary sclerosing cholangitis
• Primary biliary cirrhosis
• Drug-induced liver disease
• Hepatocellular carcinoma
• Autoimmune hepatitis
• Steatohepatitis and fatty liver disease
• Sphincter of oddi dysfunction
• Biliary Atresia
• Liver diseases in pregnancy

Nutrition

• Clinical approach to malabsorption
• Nutrition support in critical illness
• Short bowel syndrome
• Bariatric surgery
• Pediatric malabsorptive diseases

Oncology

• Esophageal cancer(Barretts esophagus)
• Gastric cancer
• Gastric carcinoids
• Pancreatic adenocarcinoma
• Islet cell tumors of pancreas
• Cystic Pancreatic neoplasms and Intraductal papillary mucinous tumors
• Colon cancer
• Colon cancer screening
• Role of radiation therapy in GI cancer
• Hepatocellular carcinoma
• Colonic Polyposis Syndromes/Hereditary Non-polyposis Colon Cancer syndrome

Other

• GI Bleeding
• Abdominal pain evaluation in pediatrics
• Cutaneous manifestations of GI disease
• Transplant medicine Pharmacology (Transplant surgery)
• Ethics lecture: Informed Consent (Dept of Ethics)
• Ethics lecture: The ethical dilemma of invasive nutrition (Dept of Ethics)
• Legal Medicine lecture: Risk Management in GI (Office of Counsel)
• HIV and the GI tract
• Worms, Flukes and other GI parasites