Gastrointestinal

Semester 6th ()

Hours Teaching 25 hours, Laboratory 0 hours, Tutorial 0 hours , Clinical Training 0 hours (per week)

Teachers

• PAPACHRISTOU DIONYSIOS (Professor)
• THOMOPOULOS KONSTANTINOS (Professor)
• NIKOLOPOULOU VASILIKI (Professor)

Description

The educational goal of the course in Gastroenterology is to train students in obtaining an appropriate history, etiopathogenesis, differential diagnosis, clinical presentation, diagnostic approach, complications and therapeutic approach of diseases of digestive system.

Curriculum

The curriculum of integrated teaching in Gastroenterology is about the main and most common diseases of digestive system. The units that are taught are the following.

APPROACH TO THE PATIENT WITH :

• Dysphagia
• Dyspepsia and epigastric pain
• Haematemesis – melenas – loss of blood from rectum
• Haemorrhagic stools – loss of weight
• Diarrhea – Malabsorption syndrome

Abdominal pain

Reading Material