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Gastro-intestinal tract. Basic principles of diagnosis and management [MEDI2110]
[106.5h] 8 credits

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Teacher(s):

Jean-Paul Buts, Jean-Marie Collard, Pierre Deprez, Roger Detry (coord.), Olivier Dewit, André Geubel, Jean-François Gigot, Louis Goncette, Yves Horsmans, Alex Kartheuser, Jan Lerut, Michel Melange, Luc Michel, Hubert Piessevaux, Jacques Rahier, Raymond Reding, Christine Sempoux, Etienne Sokal, Bernard Van Beers, Robert VANHEUVERZWYN

Language:

French

Level:

Second cycle

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Aims

Aims : To teach the main physiopathological concepts in digestive diseases as well as their diagnostic and therapeutic approaches. The importance of each chapter is weighed by the local prevalence of pathologies, and for the less frequent, by the prognostic consequences of an adequate diagnosis and/or management

Optional : complements of medical gastroenterology, complements of surgical pathology of the digestive tract in adults and children.

Main themes

6 integrated parts : internal medicine, surgery, pediatrics, pharmacology, imaging techniques, pathology.
The lessons deal with the concise description of the most frequent digestive diseases in adults and children. Diagnostic approach, medical treatment, surgical indications and main surgical techniques are described. Teaching inGI imaging, pathology and pharmacotherapy is provided

Content and teaching methods

Teaching includes conventional lectures, seminars, clinical demonstrations and training.
Power-point presentations, syllabi and short videos are used througout the course. In addition, live presentations are performed to show the best way for collecting anamnestic data, for establishing a diagnosis by complementary techniques and for treating the patient. Seminars of clinico-pathological correlations and teaching are also given.

Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Written test scheduled at the end of the module of teaching.
Oral exam, part of the global integrated control at the end of the year on the base of a written clinical history.



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