Core Curriculum – Topics (2010-2011)

Acute abdomen

Acute pancreatitis: pathophysiology, diagnosis, and management

Alcoholic hepatitis: new targets for therapy

Anorectal diseases (hemorrhoids, fissure, SRUS, prolapse, rectocele)

Anorectal manometry

Bile physiology

Biliary tract and gallbladder: anatomy, development, and physiology

Cholelithiasis and cholecystitis: pathophysiology and management

Colon physiology

Crohn’s disease (“a bug’s eye view”)

Defecation: normal and abnormal

Drug-induced liver injury: pathophysiology and management

Enteral nutrition

Esophageal cancer

Esophagus: anatomy and physiology

Extraintestinal manifestations of IBD

Fecal incontinence: pathophysiology, evaluation and management

Functional gastrointestinal testing

GERD: pathophysiology and complications

GI/Liver disorders in pregnancy

Hepatitis B: virology and pathophysiology

Hereditary colorectal cancer

Hereditary hemochromatosis: pathophysiology, diagnosis, and management

H. pylori epidemiology and pathophysiology

Immunologic basis for IBD therapies

Infectious diarrhea: pathophysiology, diagnosis, and management

Irritable bowel syndrome

Ischemic bowel diseases

Liver transplant rejection: pathophysiology and management

Malabsorption syndrome and small bowel overgrowth

Mucosal defense mechanisms

Neuroendocrine tumors of the GI tract

Obesity: pathogenesis and management

Pancreas: anatomy, development and physiology

Pancreatic cysts and masses

Pathophysiology of IBD

Pathophysiology of nausea and vomiting

Peptic ulcer disease : complications and management

Polyposis syndromes

Porphyrias

Portal hypertension – pathophysiology and consequences

Short-bowel syndrome: pathophysiology and management

Stomach & duodenum: anatomy, development, and physiology

Surgery of the colon and rectum

Surgery of the pancreas [canceled]

Testing for reflux

Whipple disease and other small bowel disorders

Wilson’s disease and alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency