How to Manage: Gastroenterology

What is the course about?

This online course provides you with a clinical approach to effectively investigate and manage common gastrointestinal presentations in children and young people.

This one-day course, hosted on Zoom, will provide you with practical and up-to-date guidance on managing the common gastrointestinal (GI) problems encountered in paediatrics.

We’ll cover chronic diarrhoea, functional GI disorders, difficult constipation and liver function tests. We’ll also explore whether probiotics have a role in GI disease and provide strategies for how to effectively support a young person with an eating disorder.

Target Audience

• Paediatric trainees
• SAS doctors
• Consultants
• Nurses and allied health professionals with an interest in gastroenterology.

Learning Aims, Objectives and Outcomes:

Aim:

This study day will help delegates develop an approach for the management of common gastrointestinal (GI) presentations.

Outcome:

By the end of this course you will be able to:

• Develop a clinical approach for the investigation and management of chronic diarrhoea
• Describe the role of probiotics in GI disease
• Develop an approach for managing functional GI disorders
• Investigate and manage a patient with abnormal liver function tests
• Manage difficult constipation
• Recognise a young person with an eating disorder and understand the principles of management

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