PROGRAMME CURRICULUM

GAST5001 - Investigations in Gastroenterology (1 Unit)

Topics

• Small bowel investigations
• Basic science of the digestive system
• Principles of diagnostic endoscopy
• Imaging studies in hepatobiliary diseases
• Workup of gastrointestinal malignancies
• Assessment of liver
• Imaging studies in gastrointestinal diseases

Course Aims

1. To provide basic anatomy and physiology knowledge in relation to the investigations of gastrointestinal disorders.
2. To provide knowledge on the use and interpretation of laboratory investigations.
3. To enable students to understand the principles on diagnostic endoscopy.
4. To provide an overview of medical imaging in gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary diseases.
5. To illustrate with clinical examples the role of imaging in different kinds of gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary conditions.
6. To provide understanding on special investigations such as manometry and fibro scan.

GAST5002 - Interventions and Pharmacology in Gastroenterology (2 Units)

Topics

• Basic principles of gastrointestinal surgery
• Intervention radiology in GI and hepatobiliary diseases
• Pharmacology: Immunosuppressive and Biologics
• Endoscopic therapies in gastrointestinal bleeding
• Pharmacology: Cirrhosis and complications
• Workshop: Non-invasive assessment of liver fibrosis
• Basic principles of hepatobiliary surgery
• Endoscopic therapies in hepatobiliary disorders
• Endoscopic therapies in early gastrointestinal malignancies
• Workshop: Tests for H. pylori
• Pharmacology: GI and hepatobiliary infection
• Workshop: Diagnostic radiology
• Workshop: Interventional radiology
• Pharmacology: Therapies in peptic ulcer disease and functional GI disorders

Course Aims

1. To illustrate the role on therapeutic endoscopy.
2. To understand the basic principles of gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary surgery.
3. To illustrate the role of minimally invasive interventional radiology on treatment of gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary disorders.
4. To provide an overview of interventional radiology in gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary disorders.
5. To provide knowledge on the clinical pharmacology in gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary disorders.

GAST5003 - Nutrition and Dietetics (1 Unit)

Topics

• Obesity - the scope of problem
• Basic food science
• Gastrointestinal physiology - digestion and absorption of nutrients
• Obesity - the multidisciplinary management
• Perioperative dietary management in surgical patients
• Malnutrition and clinical manifestations
• Dietary management in patients with benign gastrointestinal pathologies
• Dietary supplement in patients with chronic liver failure
• Probiotics and the gastrointestinal tract
• Dietetic approach to obesity

Course Aims

1. To provide basic knowledge on the physiology from absorption to metabolism of nutrients.
2. To provide an overview on food and nutrition.
3. To establish foundation knowledge for nutrition intervention in different disease groups.

GAST5017 - Epidemiology and Clinical Research (3 Units)

Topics

• Epidemiology principle
• Descriptive Statistics and Graphic Presentation of Data, Probability distributions, Sampling distributions and confidence intervals
• Hypothesis testing
• Parametric and non-parametric tests
• Regression
• Screening and diagnosis
• Meta-analysis
• Introduction to Clinical Trials
• Different Study Designs
• Natural variation and bias
• The use of controls
• Outcome measures
• Good Clinical Practice
• Questionnaires development and validation
• Quality of Life Research
• Responsibilities
• Clinical Trials Study Documents
• Ethics
• Monitoring and Quality Control
• Scientific paper reading and critical appraisal
• SPSS: Descriptive statistics
• SPSS: Comparison of categorical and continuous variables
• SPSS: Regression
• Use of electronic database
• Scientific report writing

Course Aims

1. To describe the basic epidemiological theories and the methods of clinical investigation for scientific research.
2. To educate the statistical concepts and data analysis methods for clinical and health economic research.
3. To demonstrate the real scenarios of academic research in digestive disease.
4. To demonstrate the procedures of data handling and statistical analysis in SPSS.
5. To provide a practical experience of using SPSS.
6. To provide basic knowledge and skills on how to read and critically apraise a scientific publication.
7. To introduce the theoretical issues and approaches to scientific research.
8. To equip the students with the skills of research planning, protocol writing, and ethics consideration in digestive diseases.
9. To coach for the literature reviews of clinical evidence from academic databases, and the skills of critical appraisal for the existing evidence.

GAST5004 - Upper Gastrointestinal Diseases (1 Unit)

Topics

• Anatomy of the upper gastrointestinal anatomy
• Physiology of the upper gastrointestinal tract
• Benign oesophageal diseases
• Oesophageal cancers
• Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease
• Acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding
• Investigatory modalities for diseases of upper gastrointestinal tract
• Peptic ulcer disease and gastritis

Course Aims

1. To provide the basic knowledge about the pathophysiology of benign and malignant upper gastrointestinal diseases.
2. To understand the clinical presentation and diagnostic strategies to various upper gastrointestinal diseases.
3. To understand the management of benign and malignant upper gastrointestinal diseases.
4. To illustrate with clinical examples and videos on the management of upper gastrointestinal diseases.

GAST5005 - Liver, Hepatobiliary, and Pancreatic diseases (1.5 Units)

Topics

• Fatty liver diseases
• Drug induced and metabolic liver disorders
• Liver failure and transplantation
• Hepatitis and renal patients
• Hepatitis and oncology patients
• Hepatitis and pregnancy
• Gallstone and cholangitis
• Hepatobiliary malignancies
• Chronic viral hepatitis
• Pancreatitis
• Acute viral hepatitis

Course Aims

1. To understand the basic pathologies of hepatitis, hepato-biliary and pancreatic diseases.
2. To understand the common clinical presentations of different liver parenchymal, hepato-biliary and pancreatic conditions using a multidisciplinary approach.
3. To illustrate with clinical examples the clinical management of viral hepatitis, common hepato-biliary and pancreatic condition.
4. To provide an overview on office management of viral hepatitis, common hepato-biliary and pancreatic diseases.

GAST5006 - Small Bowel and Colonic Diseases (2 Units)

Topics

• Maldigestion and malabsorption
• Inflammatory bowel disease
• Small bowel and Colonic tumor
• Functional bowel disorder and non-infectious enteritis
• Non-malignant surgical bowel conditions
• Infectious diarrhea and bacterial food poisoning
• Investigations of chronic bleeding in the upper gastrointestinal tract
• Gastric cancer and its management
• Motility laboratory
• Attachment: Minimal invasive surgery
• Attachment: Diagnostic endoscopy
• Attachment: Therapeutic endoscopy
• Attachment: Capsule endoscopy

Course Aims

1. To provide a basic knowledge about etiology and pathophysiology of various benign and malignant small bowel and colorectal diseases.
2. To provide a general knowledge about different clinical presentations and principles of diagnosis of benign and malignant colorectal diseases.
3. To illustrate with clinical scenarios and case studies the management of benign and malignant colorectal diseases using a multidisciplinary approach.
4. To provide a brief overview of cancer screening, using colorectal cancer as an example.

Practical Workshops

1. To provide clinical exposure to endoscopic, radiological and surgical procedures in digestive diseases.
2. To consolidate the knowledge on the management of different digestive diseases through case discussion and ward rounds.

GAST5009 - Medical Ethics, Communication, and Law (1.5 Units)

Topics

• Ethics and law 1 - medical professionalism and consent for treatment
• Ethics and law 2- confidentiality and clinical negligence
• Ethics and law - end of life issues and advance directives
• Healthcare law in Hong Kong
• Expert witness
• Complaints and disciplinary proceedings
• Mediations
• Medical documentation, record keeping and information technology
• Ethical decision making
• Problem solving skills for healthcare professionals
• Complain Management
• Media Management

Course Aims

1. To provide an understanding of ethics and law relating to the field of healthcare.
2. To develop skills in problem-solving and reasoning, teamwork, written and oral communication.
3. To enable students to understand ethical and medico-legal issues that will be encountered during their professional lives, and to develop the skills necessary to resolve real-world ethical and medico-legal dilemmas.

GAST5010 - Health Service Management & Healthcare Administration (1 Unit)

Topics

• Clinical governance
• Human resource management
• Health organization - theory and management
• Hospital accreditation
• Health economics
• Quality and safety in medical care
• Ethics in healthcare management
• Concepts of health promotion
• Behavioral and cultural issues in healthcare
• Strategic planning and marketing in healthcare

Course Aims

1. To provide basic knowledge on the administrative set-up of a hospital.
2. To provide understanding in clinical governance, risk management, standard of care, health informatics and ethics in healthcare management.
3. To educate the managerial and administrative skills, leadership and decision making as a healthcare manager.

GAST5011 - Professional Communication Workshop (1.5 Units)

Topics

• Coordination of multidisciplinary team in managing patients with digestive disease - Perspective of a doctor
• Coordination of multidisciplinary team in managing patients with digestive disease - Perspective of a nurse Patient communication skills
• Effective interviewing skills
• Effective meeting and presentation
• Managing health care team

Course Aims

1. To illustrate how to coordinate a multidisciplinary team in managing patients with digestive disease.
2. To illustrate how to communicate with patients and their family members.
3. To illustrate how to deal with PR crisis and how to communicate with journalists.

GAST5001 - Investigations in Gastroenterology (1 Unit)

Topics

• Small bowel investigations
• Basic science of the digestive system
• Principles of diagnostic endoscopy
• Imaging studies in hepatobiliary diseases
• Workup of gastrointestinal malignancies
• Assessment of liver
• Imaging studies in gastrointestinal diseases

Course Aims

1. To provide basic anatomy and physiology knowledge in relation to the investigations of gastrointestinal disorders.
2. To provide knowledge on the use and interpretation of laboratory investigations.
3. To enable students to understand the principles on diagnostic endoscopy.
4. To provide an overview of medical imaging in gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary diseases.
5. To illustrate with clinical examples the role of imaging in different kinds of gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary conditions.
6. To provide understanding on special investigations such as manometry and fibro scan.

GAST5002 - Interventions and Pharmacology in Gastroenterology (2 Units)

Topics

• Basic principles of gastrointestinal surgery
• Intervention radiology in GI and hepatobiliary diseases
• Pharmacology: Immunosuppressive and Biologics
• Endoscopic therapies in gastrointestinal bleeding
• Pharmacology: Cirrhosis and complications
• Workshop: Non-invasive assessment of liver fibrosis
• Basic principles of hepatobiliary surgery
• Endoscopic therapies in hepatobiliary disorders
• Endoscopic therapies in early gastrointestinal malignancies
• Workshop: Tests for H. pylori
• Pharmacology: GI and hepatobiliary infection
• Workshop: Diagnostic radiology
• Workshop: Interventional radiology
• Pharmacology: Therapies in peptic ulcer disease and functional GI disorders

Course Aims

1. To illustrate the role on therapeutic endoscopy.
2. To understand the basic principles of gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary surgery.
3. To illustrate the role of minimally invasive interventional radiology on treatment of gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary disorders.
4. To provide an overview of interventional radiology in gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary disorders.
5. To provide knowledge on the clinical pharmacology in gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary disorders.

GAST5003 - Nutrition and Dietetics (1 Unit)

Topics

• Obesity - the scope of problem
• Basic food science
• Gastrointestinal physiology - digestion and absorption of nutrients
• Obesity - the multidisciplinary management
• Perioperative dietary management in surgical patients
• Malnutrition and clinical manifestations
• Dietary management in patients with benign gastrointestinal pathologies
• Dietary supplement in patients with chronic liver failure
• Probiotics and the gastrointestinal tract
• Dietetic approach to obesity

Course Aims

1. To provide basic knowledge on the physiology from absorption to metabolism of nutrients.
2. To provide an overview on food and nutrition.
3. To establish foundation knowledge for nutrition intervention in different disease groups.

GAST5004 - Upper Gastrointestinal Diseases (1 Unit)

Topics

• Anatomy of the upper gastrointestinal anatomy
• Physiology of the upper gastrointestinal tract
• Benign oesophageal diseases
• Oesophageal cancers
• Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease
• Acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding
• Investigatory modalities for diseases of upper gastrointestinal tract
• Peptic ulcer disease and gastritis

Course Aims

1. To provide the basic knowledge about the pathophysiology of benign and malignant upper gastrointestinal diseases.
2. To understand the clinical presentation and diagnostic strategies to various upper gastrointestinal diseases.
3. To understand the management of benign and malignant upper gastrointestinal diseases.
4. To illustrate with clinical examples and videos on the management of upper gastrointestinal diseases.

GAST5005 - Liver, Hepatobiliary, and Pancreatic diseases (1.5 Units)

Topics

• Fatty liver diseases
• Drug induced and metabolic liver disorders
• Liver failure and transplantation
• Hepatitis and renal patients
• Hepatitis and oncology patients
• Hepatitis and pregnancy
• Gallstone and cholangitis
• Hepatobiliary malignancies
• Chronic viral hepatitis
• Pancreatitis
• Acute viral hepatitis

Course Aims

1. To understand the basic pathologies of hepatitis, hepato-biliary and pancreatic diseases.
2. To understand the common clinical presentations of different liver parenchymal, hepato-biliary and pancreatic conditions using a multidisciplinary approach.
3. To illustrate with clinical examples the clinical management of viral hepatitis, common hepato-biliary and pancreatic condition.
4. To provide an overview on office management of viral hepatitis, common hepato-biliary and pancreatic diseases.

GAST5006 - Small Bowel and Colonic Diseases (2 Units)

Topics

• Maldigestion and malabsorption
• Inflammatory bowel disease
• Small bowel and Colonic tumor
• Functional bowel disorder and non-infectious enteritis
• Non-malignant surgical bowel conditions
• Infectious diarrhea and bacterial food poisoning
• Investigations of chronic bleeding in the upper gastrointestinal tract
• Gastric cancer and its management
• Motility laboratory
• Attachment: Minimal invasive surgery
• Attachment: Diagnostic endoscopy
• Attachment: Therapeutic endoscopy
• Attachment: Capsule endoscopy

Course Aims

1. To provide a basic knowledge about etiology and pathophysiology of various benign and malignant small bowel and colorectal diseases.
2. To provide a general knowledge about different clinical presentations and principles of diagnosis of benign and malignant colorectal diseases.
3. To illustrate with clinical scenarios and case studies the management of benign and malignant colorectal diseases using a multidisciplinary approach.
4. To provide a brief overview of cancer screening, using colorectal cancer as an example.

Practical Workshops

1. To provide clinical exposure to endoscopic, radiological and surgical procedures in digestive diseases.
2. To consolidate the knowledge on the management of different digestive diseases through case discussion and ward rounds.

GAST5007 - Psychological Intervention, Counseling and Complementary Medicine (1.5 Units)

Topics

• Integrative Medicine in Gastroenterology
• Psychological management of functional GI disorder
• Principles and management of common psychological disorders I & II
• Principles and practice of counseling I & II
• Principles and practice of cognitive behavioral therapy I & II
• Mindfulness-based management of gastrointestinal diseases

Course Aims

1. To introduce the concept of biopsychosocial model in development of functional gastrointestinal disorders
2. To provide an understanding on the relationship between psychological disorders and gastrointestinal diseases.
3. To provide an overview of the role of psychological intervention and psychotropic therapy in management of functional gastrointestinal disorders.
4. To provide basic training on the clinical skills of diagnosis and management of patients with functional gastrointestinal and psychological disorders.
5. To provide an understanding on the role of complementary and alternative medicine in management of digestive diseases.

GAST5008 - Interactive Workshops - Practical Management of Common GI Diseases (1 Unit)

Topics

• Gastroenterology in Sport Medicine
• Traveler’s medicine
• Acute abdominal pain
• Anemia
• Liver function derangement
• Liver nodule
• Dyspepsia and chronic abdominal pain
• Perianal problems

Course Aims

1. To understand about the management of common GI diseases through interactive based learning.
2. To illustrate the management of common GI diseases through case discussion.
3. To learn the differential diagnosis and management of common GI diseases through sessions of interactive quiz.
4. To understand and expose to various devices for investigation of common GI diseases through hands-on sessions.

GAST5017 - Epidemiology and Clinical Research (3 Units)

Topics

• Epidemiology principle
• Descriptive Statistics and Graphic Presentation of Data, Probability distributions, Sampling distributions and confidence intervals
• Hypothesis testing
• Parametric and non-parametric tests
• Regression
• Screening and diagnosis
• Meta-analysis
• Introduction to Clinical Trials
• Different Study Designs
• Natural variation and bias
• The use of controls
• Outcome measures
• Good Clinical Practice
• Questionnaires development and validation
• Quality of Life Research
• Responsibilities
• Clinical Trials Study Documents
• Ethics
• Monitoring and Quality Control
• Scientific paper reading and critical appraisal
• SPSS: Descriptive statistics
• SPSS: Comparison of categorical and continuous variables
• SPSS: Regression
• Use of electronic database
• Scientific report writing

Course Aims

1. To describe the basic epidemiological theories and the methods of clinical investigation for scientific research.
2. To educate the statistical concepts and data analysis methods for clinical and health economic research.
3. To demonstrate the real scenarios of academic research in digestive disease.
4. To demonstrate the procedures of data handling and statistical analysis in SPSS.
5. To provide a practical experience of using SPSS.
6. To provide basic knowledge and skills on how to read and critically apraise a scientific publication.
7. To introduce the theoretical issues and approaches to scientific research.
8. To equip the students with the skills of research planning, protocol writing, and ethics consideration in digestive diseases.
9. To coach for the literature reviews of clinical evidence from academic databases, and the skills of critical appraisal for the existing evidence.

GAST5009 - Medical Ethics, Communication, and Law (1.5 Units)

Topics

• Ethics and law 1 - medical professionalism and consent for treatment
• Ethics and law 2- confidentiality and clinical negligence
• Ethics and law - end of life issues and advance directives
• Healthcare law in Hong Kong
• Expert witness
• Complaints and disciplinary proceedings
• Mediations
• Medical documentation, record keeping and information technology
• Ethical decision making
• Problem solving skills for healthcare professionals
• Complain Management
• Media Management

Course Aims

1. To provide an understanding of ethics and law relating to the field of healthcare.
2. To develop skills in problem-solving and reasoning, teamwork, written and oral communication.
3. To enable students to understand ethical and medico-legal issues that will be encountered during their professional lives, and to develop the skills necessary to resolve real-world ethical and medico-legal dilemmas.

GAST5010 - Health Service Management & Healthcare Administration (1 Unit)

Topics

• Clinical governance
• Human resource management
• Health organization - theory and management
• Hospital accreditation
• Health economics
• Quality and safety in medical care
• Ethics in healthcare management
• Concepts of health promotion
• Behavioral and cultural issues in healthcare
• Strategic planning and marketing in healthcare

Course Aims

1. To provide basic knowledge on the administrative set-up of a hospital.
2. To provide understanding in clinical governance, risk management, standard of care, health informatics and ethics in healthcare management.
3. To educate the managerial and administrative skills, leadership and decision making as a healthcare manager.

GAST5011 - Professional Communication Workshop (1.5 Units)

Topics

• Coordination of multidisciplinary team in managing patients with digestive disease - Perspective of a doctor
• Coordination of multidisciplinary team in managing patients with digestive disease - Perspective of a nurse Patient communication skills
• Effective interviewing skills
• Effective meeting and presentation
• Managing health care team

Course Aims

1. To illustrate how to coordinate a multidisciplinary team in managing patients with digestive disease.
2. To illustrate how to communicate with patients and their family members.
3. To illustrate how to deal with PR crisis and how to communicate with journalists.

GAST5016 - Project and Dissertation (7 Units)

Topics

• Gastroenterology in Sport Medicine
• Traveler’s medicine
• Acute abdominal pain
• Anemia
• Liver function derangement
• Liver nodule
• Dyspepsia and chronic abdominal pain
• Perianal problems

Course Aims

1. To understand about the management of common GI diseases through interactive based learning.
2. To illustrate the management of common GI diseases through case discussion.
3. To learn the differential diagnosis and management of common GI diseases through sessions of interactive quiz.
4. To understand and expose to various devices for investigation of common GI diseases through hands-on sessions.

GAST5007 - Psychological Intervention, Counseling and Complementary Medicine (1.5 Units)

Topics

• Integrative Medicine in Gastroenterology
• Psychological management of functional GI disorder
• Principles and management of common psychological disorders I & II
• Principles and practice of counseling I & II
• Principles and practice of cognitive behavioral therapy I & II
• Mindfulness-based management of gastrointestinal diseases

Course Aims

1. To introduce the concept of biopsychosocial model in development of functional gastrointestinal disorders
2. To provide an understanding on the relationship between psychological disorders and gastrointestinal diseases.
3. To provide an overview of the role of psychological intervention and psychotropic therapy in management of functional gastrointestinal disorders.
4. To provide basic training on the clinical skills of diagnosis and management of patients with functional gastrointestinal and psychological disorders.
5. To provide an understanding on the role of complementary and alternative medicine in management of digestive diseases.

GAST5008 - Interactive Workshops - Practical Management of Common GI Diseases (1 Unit)

Topics

• Gastroenterology in Sport Medicine
• Traveler’s medicine
• Acute abdominal pain
• Anemia
• Liver function derangement
• Liver nodule
• Dyspepsia and chronic abdominal pain
• Perianal problems

Course Aims

1. To understand about the management of common GI diseases through interactive based learning.
2. To illustrate the management of common GI diseases through case discussion.
3. To learn the differential diagnosis and management of common GI diseases through sessions of interactive quiz.
4. To understand and expose to various devices for investigation of common GI diseases through hands-on sessions.

GAST5016 - Project and Dissertation (7 Units)

Topics

• Gastroenterology in Sport Medicine
• Traveler’s medicine
• Acute abdominal pain
• Anemia
• Liver function derangement
• Liver nodule
• Dyspepsia and chronic abdominal pain
• Perianal problems

Course Aims

1. To understand about the management of common GI diseases through interactive based learning.
2. To illustrate the management of common GI diseases through case discussion.
3. To learn the differential diagnosis and management of common GI diseases through sessions of interactive quiz.
4. To understand and expose to various devices for investigation of common GI diseases through hands-on sessions.

GAST5001 - Investigations in Gastroenterology (1 Unit)

Topics

• Small bowel investigations
• Basic science of the digestive system
• Principles of diagnostic endoscopy
• Imaging studies in hepatobiliary diseases
• Workup of gastrointestinal malignancies
• Assessment of liver
• Imaging studies in gastrointestinal diseases

Course Aims

1. To provide basic anatomy and physiology knowledge in relation to the investigations of gastrointestinal disorders.
2. To provide knowledge on the use and interpretation of laboratory investigations.
3. To enable students to understand the principles on diagnostic endoscopy.
4. To provide an overview of medical imaging in gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary diseases.
5. To illustrate with clinical examples the role of imaging in different kinds of gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary conditions.
6. To provide understanding on special investigations such as manometry and fibro scan.

GAST5002 - Interventions and Pharmacology in Gastroenterology (2 Units)

Topics

• Basic principles of gastrointestinal surgery
• Intervention radiology in GI and hepatobiliary diseases
• Pharmacology: Immunosuppressive and Biologics
• Endoscopic therapies in gastrointestinal bleeding
• Pharmacology: Cirrhosis and complications
• Workshop: Non-invasive assessment of liver fibrosis
• Basic principles of hepatobiliary surgery
• Endoscopic therapies in hepatobiliary disorders
• Endoscopic therapies in early gastrointestinal malignancies
• Workshop: Tests for H. pylori
• Pharmacology: GI and hepatobiliary infection
• Workshop: Diagnostic radiology
• Workshop: Interventional radiology
• Pharmacology: Therapies in peptic ulcer disease and functional GI disorders

Course Aims

1. To illustrate the role on therapeutic endoscopy.
2. To understand the basic principles of gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary surgery.
3. To illustrate the role of minimally invasive interventional radiology on treatment of gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary disorders.
4. To provide an overview of interventional radiology in gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary disorders.
5. To provide knowledge on the clinical pharmacology in gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary disorders.

GAST5003 - Nutrition and Dietetics (1 Unit)

Topics

• Obesity - the scope of problem
• Basic food science
• Gastrointestinal physiology - digestion and absorption of nutrients
• Obesity - the multidisciplinary management
• Perioperative dietary management in surgical patients
• Malnutrition and clinical manifestations
• Dietary management in patients with benign gastrointestinal pathologies
• Dietary supplement in patients with chronic liver failure
• Probiotics and the gastrointestinal tract
• Dietetic approach to obesity

Course Aims

1. To provide basic knowledge on the physiology from absorption to metabolism of nutrients.
2. To provide an overview on food and nutrition.
3. To establish foundation knowledge for nutrition intervention in different disease groups.

GAST5017 - Epidemiology and Clinical Research (3 Units)

Topics

• Epidemiology principle
• Descriptive Statistics and Graphic Presentation of Data, Probability distributions, Sampling distributions and confidence intervals
• Hypothesis testing
• Parametric and non-parametric tests
• Regression
• Screening and diagnosis
• Meta-analysis
• Introduction to Clinical Trials
• Different Study Designs
• Natural variation and bias
• The use of controls
• Outcome measures
• Good Clinical Practice
• Questionnaires development and validation
• Quality of Life Research
• Responsibilities
• Clinical Trials Study Documents
• Ethics
• Monitoring and Quality Control
• Scientific paper reading and critical appraisal
• SPSS: Descriptive statistics
• SPSS: Comparison of categorical and continuous variables
• SPSS: Regression
• Use of electronic database
• Scientific report writing

Course Aims

1. To describe the basic epidemiological theories and the methods of clinical investigation for scientific research.
2. To educate the statistical concepts and data analysis methods for clinical and health economic research.
3. To demonstrate the real scenarios of academic research in digestive disease.
4. To demonstrate the procedures of data handling and statistical analysis in SPSS.
5. To provide a practical experience of using SPSS.
6. To provide basic knowledge and skills on how to read and critically apraise a scientific publication.
7. To introduce the theoretical issues and approaches to scientific research.
8. To equip the students with the skills of research planning, protocol writing, and ethics consideration in digestive diseases.
9. To coach for the literature reviews of clinical evidence from academic databases, and the skills of critical appraisal for the existing evidence.

GAST5004 - Upper Gastrointestinal Diseases (1 Unit)

Topics

• Anatomy of the upper gastrointestinal anatomy
• Physiology of the upper gastrointestinal tract
• Benign oesophageal diseases
• Oesophageal cancers
• Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease
• Acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding
• Investigatory modalities for diseases of upper gastrointestinal tract
• Peptic ulcer disease and gastritis

Course Aims

1. To provide the basic knowledge about the pathophysiology of benign and malignant upper gastrointestinal diseases.
2. To understand the clinical presentation and diagnostic strategies to various upper gastrointestinal diseases.
3. To understand the management of benign and malignant upper gastrointestinal diseases.
4. To illustrate with clinical examples and videos on the management of upper gastrointestinal diseases.

GAST5005 - Liver, Hepatobiliary, and Pancreatic diseases (1.5 Units)

Topics

• Fatty liver diseases
• Drug induced and metabolic liver disorders
• Liver failure and transplantation
• Hepatitis and renal patients
• Hepatitis and oncology patients
• Hepatitis and pregnancy
• Gallstone and cholangitis
• Hepatobiliary malignancies
• Chronic viral hepatitis
• Pancreatitis
• Acute viral hepatitis

Course Aims

1. To understand the basic pathologies of hepatitis, hepato-biliary and pancreatic diseases.
2. To understand the common clinical presentations of different liver parenchymal, hepato-biliary and pancreatic conditions using a multidisciplinary approach.
3. To illustrate with clinical examples the clinical management of viral hepatitis, common hepato-biliary and pancreatic condition.
4. To provide an overview on office management of viral hepatitis, common hepato-biliary and pancreatic diseases.

GAST5006 - Small Bowel and Colonic Diseases (2 Units)

Topics

• Maldigestion and malabsorption
• Inflammatory bowel disease
• Small bowel and Colonic tumor
• Functional bowel disorder and non-infectious enteritis
• Non-malignant surgical bowel conditions
• Infectious diarrhea and bacterial food poisoning
• Investigations of chronic bleeding in the upper gastrointestinal tract
• Gastric cancer and its management
• Motility laboratory
• Attachment: Minimal invasive surgery
• Attachment: Diagnostic endoscopy
• Attachment: Therapeutic endoscopy
• Attachment: Capsule endoscopy

Course Aims

1. To provide a basic knowledge about etiology and pathophysiology of various benign and malignant small bowel and colorectal diseases.
2. To provide a general knowledge about different clinical presentations and principles of diagnosis of benign and malignant colorectal diseases.
3. To illustrate with clinical scenarios and case studies the management of benign and malignant colorectal diseases using a multidisciplinary approach.
4. To provide a brief overview of cancer screening, using colorectal cancer as an example.

Practical Workshops

1. To provide clinical exposure to endoscopic, radiological and surgical procedures in digestive diseases.
2. To consolidate the knowledge on the management of different digestive diseases through case discussion and ward rounds.

GAST5009 - Medical Ethics, Communication, and Law (1.5 Units)

Topics

• Ethics and law 1 - medical professionalism and consent for treatment
• Ethics and law 2- confidentiality and clinical negligence
• Ethics and law - end of life issues and advance directives
• Healthcare law in Hong Kong
• Expert witness
• Complaints and disciplinary proceedings
• Mediations
• Medical documentation, record keeping and information technology
• Ethical decision making
• Problem solving skills for healthcare professionals
• Complain Management
• Media Management

Course Aims

1. To provide an understanding of ethics and law relating to the field of healthcare.
2. To develop skills in problem-solving and reasoning, teamwork, written and oral communication.
3. To enable students to understand ethical and medico-legal issues that will be encountered during their professional lives, and to develop the skills necessary to resolve real-world ethical and medico-legal dilemmas.

GAST5010 - Health Service Management & Healthcare Administration (1 Unit)

Topics

• Clinical governance
• Human resource management
• Health organization - theory and management
• Hospital accreditation
• Health economics
• Quality and safety in medical care
• Ethics in healthcare management
• Concepts of health promotion
• Behavioral and cultural issues in healthcare
• Strategic planning and marketing in healthcare

Course Aims

1. To provide basic knowledge on the administrative set-up of a hospital.
2. To provide understanding in clinical governance, risk management, standard of care, health informatics and ethics in healthcare management.
3. To educate the managerial and administrative skills, leadership and decision making as a healthcare manager.

GAST5011 - Professional Communication Workshop (1.5 Units)

Topics

• Coordination of multidisciplinary team in managing patients with digestive disease - Perspective of a doctor
• Coordination of multidisciplinary team in managing patients with digestive disease - Perspective of a nurse Patient communication skills
• Effective interviewing skills
• Effective meeting and presentation
• Managing health care team

Course Aims

1. To illustrate how to coordinate a multidisciplinary team in managing patients with digestive disease.
2. To illustrate how to communicate with patients and their family members.
3. To illustrate how to deal with PR crisis and how to communicate with journalists.

GAST5007 - Psychological Intervention, Counseling and Complementary Medicine (1.5 Units)

Topics

• Integrative Medicine in Gastroenterology
• Psychological management of functional GI disorder
• Principles and management of common psychological disorders I & II
• Principles and practice of counseling I & II
• Principles and practice of cognitive behavioral therapy I & II
• Mindfulness-based management of gastrointestinal diseases

Course Aims

1. To introduce the concept of biopsychosocial model in development of functional gastrointestinal disorders
2. To provide an understanding on the relationship between psychological disorders and gastrointestinal diseases.
3. To provide an overview of the role of psychological intervention and psychotropic therapy in management of functional gastrointestinal disorders.
4. To provide basic training on the clinical skills of diagnosis and management of patients with functional gastrointestinal and psychological disorders.
5. To provide an understanding on the role of complementary and alternative medicine in management of digestive diseases.

GAST5008 - Interactive Workshops - Practical Management of Common GI Diseases (1 Unit)

Topics

• Gastroenterology in Sport Medicine
• Traveler’s medicine
• Acute abdominal pain
• Anemia
• Liver function derangement
• Liver nodule
• Dyspepsia and chronic abdominal pain
• Perianal problems

Course Aims

1. To understand about the management of common GI diseases through interactive based learning.
2. To illustrate the management of common GI diseases through case discussion.
3. To learn the differential diagnosis and management of common GI diseases through sessions of interactive quiz.
4. To understand and expose to various devices for investigation of common GI diseases through hands-on sessions.

GAST5016 - Project and Dissertation (7 Units)

Topics

• Gastroenterology in Sport Medicine
• Traveler’s medicine
• Acute abdominal pain
• Anemia
• Liver function derangement
• Liver nodule
• Dyspepsia and chronic abdominal pain
• Perianal problems

Course Aims

1. To understand about the management of common GI diseases through interactive based learning.
2. To illustrate the management of common GI diseases through case discussion.
3. To learn the differential diagnosis and management of common GI diseases through sessions of interactive quiz.
4. To understand and expose to various devices for investigation of common GI diseases through hands-on sessions.

GAST5001 - Investigations in Gastroenterology (1 Unit)

Topics

• Small bowel investigations
• Basic science of the digestive system
• Principles of diagnostic endoscopy
• Imaging studies in hepatobiliary diseases
• Workup of gastrointestinal malignancies
• Assessment of liver
• Imaging studies in gastrointestinal diseases

Course Aims

1. To provide basic anatomy and physiology knowledge in relation to the investigations of gastrointestinal disorders.
2. To provide knowledge on the use and interpretation of laboratory investigations.
3. To enable students to understand the principles on diagnostic endoscopy.
4. To provide an overview of medical imaging in gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary diseases.
5. To illustrate with clinical examples the role of imaging in different kinds of gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary conditions.
6. To provide understanding on special investigations such as manometry and fibro scan.

GAST5002 - Interventions and Pharmacology in Gastroenterology (2 Units)

Topics

• Basic principles of gastrointestinal surgery
• Intervention radiology in GI and hepatobiliary diseases
• Pharmacology: Immunosuppressive and Biologics
• Endoscopic therapies in gastrointestinal bleeding
• Pharmacology: Cirrhosis and complications
• Workshop: Non-invasive assessment of liver fibrosis
• Basic principles of hepatobiliary surgery
• Endoscopic therapies in hepatobiliary disorders
• Endoscopic therapies in early gastrointestinal malignancies
• Workshop: Tests for H. pylori
• Pharmacology: GI and hepatobiliary infection
• Workshop: Diagnostic radiology
• Workshop: Interventional radiology
• Pharmacology: Therapies in peptic ulcer disease and functional GI disorders

Course Aims

1. To illustrate the role on therapeutic endoscopy.
2. To understand the basic principles of gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary surgery.
3. To illustrate the role of minimally invasive interventional radiology on treatment of gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary disorders.
4. To provide an overview of interventional radiology in gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary disorders.
5. To provide knowledge on the clinical pharmacology in gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary disorders.

GAST5003 - Nutrition and Dietetics (1 Unit)

Topics

• Obesity - the scope of problem
• Basic food science
• Gastrointestinal physiology - digestion and absorption of nutrients
• Obesity - the multidisciplinary management
• Perioperative dietary management in surgical patients
• Malnutrition and clinical manifestations
• Dietary management in patients with benign gastrointestinal pathologies
• Dietary supplement in patients with chronic liver failure
• Probiotics and the gastrointestinal tract
• Dietetic approach to obesity

Course Aims

1. To provide basic knowledge on the physiology from absorption to metabolism of nutrients.
2. To provide an overview on food and nutrition.
3. To establish foundation knowledge for nutrition intervention in different disease groups.

GAST5004 - Upper Gastrointestinal Diseases (1 Unit)

Topics

• Anatomy of the upper gastrointestinal anatomy
• Physiology of the upper gastrointestinal tract
• Benign oesophageal diseases
• Oesophageal cancers
• Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease
• Acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding
• Investigatory modalities for diseases of upper gastrointestinal tract
• Peptic ulcer disease and gastritis

Course Aims

1. To provide the basic knowledge about the pathophysiology of benign and malignant upper gastrointestinal diseases.
2. To understand the clinical presentation and diagnostic strategies to various upper gastrointestinal diseases.
3. To understand the management of benign and malignant upper gastrointestinal diseases.
4. To illustrate with clinical examples and videos on the management of upper gastrointestinal diseases.

GAST5005 - Liver, Hepatobiliary, and Pancreatic diseases (1.5 Units)

Topics

• Fatty liver diseases
• Drug induced and metabolic liver disorders
• Liver failure and transplantation
• Hepatitis and renal patients
• Hepatitis and oncology patients
• Hepatitis and pregnancy
• Gallstone and cholangitis
• Hepatobiliary malignancies
• Chronic viral hepatitis
• Pancreatitis
• Acute viral hepatitis

Course Aims

1. To understand the basic pathologies of hepatitis, hepato-biliary and pancreatic diseases.
2. To understand the common clinical presentations of different liver parenchymal, hepato-biliary and pancreatic conditions using a multidisciplinary approach.
3. To illustrate with clinical examples the clinical management of viral hepatitis, common hepato-biliary and pancreatic condition.
4. To provide an overview on office management of viral hepatitis, common hepato-biliary and pancreatic diseases.

GAST5006 - Small Bowel and Colonic Diseases (2 Units)

Topics

• Maldigestion and malabsorption
• Inflammatory bowel disease
• Small bowel and Colonic tumor
• Functional bowel disorder and non-infectious enteritis
• Non-malignant surgical bowel conditions
• Infectious diarrhea and bacterial food poisoning
• Investigations of chronic bleeding in the upper gastrointestinal tract
• Gastric cancer and its management
• Motility laboratory
• Attachment: Minimal invasive surgery
• Attachment: Diagnostic endoscopy
• Attachment: Therapeutic endoscopy
• Attachment: Capsule endoscopy

Course Aims

1. To provide a basic knowledge about etiology and pathophysiology of various benign and malignant small bowel and colorectal diseases.
2. To provide a general knowledge about different clinical presentations and principles of diagnosis of benign and malignant colorectal diseases.
3. To illustrate with clinical scenarios and case studies the management of benign and malignant colorectal diseases using a multidisciplinary approach.
4. To provide a brief overview of cancer screening, using colorectal cancer as an example.

Practical Workshops

1. To provide clinical exposure to endoscopic, radiological and surgical procedures in digestive diseases.
2. To consolidate the knowledge on the management of different digestive diseases through case discussion and ward rounds.

GAST5007 - Psychological Intervention, Counseling and Complementary Medicine (1.5 Units)

Topics

• Integrative Medicine in Gastroenterology
• Psychological management of functional GI disorder
• Principles and management of common psychological disorders I & II
• Principles and practice of counseling I & II
• Principles and practice of cognitive behavioral therapy I & II
• Mindfulness-based management of gastrointestinal diseases

Course Aims

1. To introduce the concept of biopsychosocial model in development of functional gastrointestinal disorders
2. To provide an understanding on the relationship between psychological disorders and gastrointestinal diseases.
3. To provide an overview of the role of psychological intervention and psychotropic therapy in management of functional gastrointestinal disorders.
4. To provide basic training on the clinical skills of diagnosis and management of patients with functional gastrointestinal and psychological disorders.
5. To provide an understanding on the role of complementary and alternative medicine in management of digestive diseases.

GAST5008 - Interactive Workshops - Practical Management of Common GI Diseases (1 Unit)

Topics

• Gastroenterology in Sport Medicine
• Traveler’s medicine
• Acute abdominal pain
• Anemia
• Liver function derangement
• Liver nodule
• Dyspepsia and chronic abdominal pain
• Perianal problems

Course Aims

1. To understand about the management of common GI diseases through interactive based learning.
2. To illustrate the management of common GI diseases through case discussion.
3. To learn the differential diagnosis and management of common GI diseases through sessions of interactive quiz.
4. To understand and expose to various devices for investigation of common GI diseases through hands-on sessions.

GAST5017 - Epidemiology and Clinical Research (3 Units)

Topics

• Epidemiology principle
• Descriptive Statistics and Graphic Presentation of Data, Probability distributions, Sampling distributions and confidence intervals
• Hypothesis testing
• Parametric and non-parametric tests
• Regression
• Screening and diagnosis
• Meta-analysis
• Introduction to Clinical Trials
• Different Study Designs
• Natural variation and bias
• The use of controls
• Outcome measures
• Good Clinical Practice
• Questionnaires development and validation
• Quality of Life Research
• Responsibilities
• Clinical Trials Study Documents
• Ethics
• Monitoring and Quality Control
• Scientific paper reading and critical appraisal
• SPSS: Descriptive statistics
• SPSS: Comparison of categorical and continuous variables
• SPSS: Regression
• Use of electronic database
• Scientific report writing

Course Aims

1. To describe the basic epidemiological theories and the methods of clinical investigation for scientific research.
2. To educate the statistical concepts and data analysis methods for clinical and health economic research.
3. To demonstrate the real scenarios of academic research in digestive disease.
4. To demonstrate the procedures of data handling and statistical analysis in SPSS.
5. To provide a practical experience of using SPSS.
6. To provide basic knowledge and skills on how to read and critically apraise a scientific publication.
7. To introduce the theoretical issues and approaches to scientific research.
8. To equip the students with the skills of research planning, protocol writing, and ethics consideration in digestive diseases.
9. To coach for the literature reviews of clinical evidence from academic databases, and the skills of critical appraisal for the existing evidence.

GAST5009 - Medical Ethics, Communication, and Law (1.5 Units)

Topics

• Ethics and law 1 - medical professionalism and consent for treatment
• Ethics and law 2- confidentiality and clinical negligence
• Ethics and law - end of life issues and advance directives
• Healthcare law in Hong Kong
• Expert witness
• Complaints and disciplinary proceedings
• Mediations
• Medical documentation, record keeping and information technology
• Ethical decision making
• Problem solving skills for healthcare professionals
• Complain Management
• Media Management

Course Aims

1. To provide an understanding of ethics and law relating to the field of healthcare.
2. To develop skills in problem-solving and reasoning, teamwork, written and oral communication.
3. To enable students to understand ethical and medico-legal issues that will be encountered during their professional lives, and to develop the skills necessary to resolve real-world ethical and medico-legal dilemmas.

GAST5010 - Health Service Management & Healthcare Administration (1 Unit)

Topics

• Clinical governance
• Human resource management
• Health organization - theory and management
• Hospital accreditation
• Health economics
• Quality and safety in medical care
• Ethics in healthcare management
• Concepts of health promotion
• Behavioral and cultural issues in healthcare
• Strategic planning and marketing in healthcare

Course Aims

1. To provide basic knowledge on the administrative set-up of a hospital.
2. To provide understanding in clinical governance, risk management, standard of care, health informatics and ethics in healthcare management.
3. To educate the managerial and administrative skills, leadership and decision making as a healthcare manager.

GAST5011 - Professional Communication Workshop (1.5 Units)

Topics

• Coordination of multidisciplinary team in managing patients with digestive disease - Perspective of a doctor
• Coordination of multidisciplinary team in managing patients with digestive disease - Perspective of a nurse Patient communication skills
• Effective interviewing skills
• Effective meeting and presentation
• Managing health care team

Course Aims

1. To illustrate how to coordinate a multidisciplinary team in managing patients with digestive disease.
2. To illustrate how to communicate with patients and their family members.
3. To illustrate how to deal with PR crisis and how to communicate with journalists.

GAST5016 - Project and Dissertation (7 Units)

Topics

• Gastroenterology in Sport Medicine
• Traveler’s medicine
• Acute abdominal pain
• Anemia
• Liver function derangement
• Liver nodule
• Dyspepsia and chronic abdominal pain
• Perianal problems

Course Aims

1. To understand about the management of common GI diseases through interactive based learning.
2. To illustrate the management of common GI diseases through case discussion.
3. To learn the differential diagnosis and management of common GI diseases through sessions of interactive quiz.
4. To understand and expose to various devices for investigation of common GI diseases through hands-on sessions.