Postgraduate Course (PGC)

Session 1   ERCP - The Fundamentals 

• Training in ERCP…The Fundamentals
• Techniques of Cannulation - The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
• Preventing & Dealing With Adverse Events in ERCP

  Session 2   ERCP - Distal Biliary Strictures

• The Distal Biliary Stricture - Achieving the Correct Diagnosis!
• Role of ERCP for Benign and Malignant Biliary Strictures
• Drain the Swamp Part I - Tips and Tricks for Optimal Biliary Drainage with ERCP

 Session 3   ERCP - ERCP in inaccessible papilla and/or altered anatomy

• BEWARE the Patient with Altered Anatomy
• ERCP in the Patient with Billroth II Anatomy
• Alternative Cannulation Techniques - Entero-ERCP and EUS guided techniques

Session 4   EUS - Key Principles in EUS

• Basics of Anatomy and Technical Fundamentals in EUS
• Optimizing Your Tissue Sampling for Solid and Cystic Lesions
• Preventing EUS Related Adverse Events

Session 5   EUS - Diagnostic Challenges in EUS: Pancreatic Cysts

• Pancreatic Cysts - EUS Characteristics
• When (and when not) and how to perform EUS fluid/tissue acquisition
• Role of Cyst Fluid Analysis and Other Diagnostic Modalities

Session 6   EUS - EUS Guided Interventions: Collections, Biliary and Pancreatic Drainage 

• EUS Guided Drainage of Pancreatic Collections - Indications and Techniques
• Drain the Swamp Part II - Tips and Tricks for Optimal EUS-Guided Biliary Drainage
• I'm in Trouble - Prevention and Management of Adverse Events

Session 1   Upper GI - Barrett's oesophagus

• How to Diagnosis and Characterise Barrett's oesophagus
• Surveillance and Indications for Resection/Ablation
• How to Resection and Ablate Barrett's oesophagus

Session 2   Upper GI - Non-Variceal Bleeding  

• Your "Pre-Endoscopy Checklist" in Acute UGI Bleeding
• Tips and Tricks Using Your Hemostasis Toolbox
• Post Endoscopy Patient Management

Session 3   Upper GI - Management of Strictures and Leaks

• Managing benign and malignant oesophageal strictures
• Gastric Outlet Obstruction - Endoscopic management of gastric motility disorders more than malignant/benign strictures: G-POEM vs others  
• Oops There's a Leak - Endoscopy to the Rescue!

Session 4    Lower GI - Quality in Colonoscopy and Polyp Evaluation

• Defining a High Quality Colonoscopy
• Achieving the Optimal Colonoscopy Technique - How to Become a Colonoscopy Master!
• Optical Diagnosis: Polyp Detection, Characterization and Classifications 

Session 5   Lower GI - Polypectomy and EMR  

• Lesion assessment and choice of resection techniques 
• Basic Polypectomy Techniques - What You Need to Know 
• Advanced Polyp Resection Techniques - the ABC for resecting large polyps

Session 6   Lower GI - Endoscopy in Inflammatory Bowel Disease

• Diagnosis and Endoscopic Classification
• Endoscopic Surveillance in IBD - When? How?
• Therapeutic Endoscopy in IBD (including dilation and resection)

Session 1   ERCP – "Romancing" the Biliary Stones

• How to diagnose, classify and manage bile duct stones
• Approach to patients with standard and difficult bile duct stones  
• Bile Duct Stone Complications - What to Do

Session 2   ERCP – Deaking with Hilar/Proximal Biliary Strictures

• How to diagnose hilar biliary strictures
• Managment of Malignant and Benign Biliary Strictures
• Management of Biliary Strictures - Altrnatives to ERCP

Session 3   ERCP – Endoscopic Approach in Chronic Pancreatitis

• How to diagnose and when to treat patients with chronic pancreatitis
• Management of pancreatic stones in chronic pancreatitis
• Management of biliary and pancreatic duct strictures in chronic pancreatitis 

Session 4   EUS – EUS-Guided Endo-Hepatology

• EUS guided liver biopsy - Indications
• EUS guided liver biopsy - technical how to
• EUS HVPG Measurement

Session 5   EUS - Pancreatic Lesions: Diagnostic Challenges in EUS 

• When, Who and How to Screen for Pancreatic Cancer 
• The Role of EUS in Pancreatic Cancer Staging 
• The Role of EUS in Evaluating Pancreatic "Incidentalomas"

Session 6   EUS - Therapeutic EUS

• How and when to treat solid and cystic pancreatic lesions
• EUS-Guided Gastro-Enterostomy in Malignant GOO
• The Role of EUS in Variceal Bleeding and Radiotherapy Guidance

Session 1   Upper GI - Managing Gastric and Duodenal Polyps

• Gastric Polyps - When Do You Need to Worry?
• Managing Duodenal Polyps - Ampullary and Non-Ampullary
• Duodenal Polyp Resections - Managing Adverse Events

Session 2   Upper GI - Variceal Bleeding

• Varices - Diagnosis and Prevention of Bleeding
• Endoscopic treatment of Variceal Bleeding
• Oh No! Endotherapy is not working, What to Do?

Session 3   Upper GI - Bariatric Endoscopy and Nutrition

• Indications and Techniques of Bariatric and Metabolic Endoscopy
• Adverse Events in Bariatric Surgery - Call the Endoscopist!
• Access Options and Troubleshooting Enteral Nutrition

Session 4 Upper GI - Early Gastric Cancer

• Screening for Gastric Cancer - Who and How?
• Endoscopic Diagnosis of Early Gastric Cancer
• Endoscopic Resection for Early Gastric Lesions

Session 5   Lower GI - Advanced Resection Techniques for Colorectal Lesions 

• How to get ready for doing ESD - tips and tricks for ESD and other advanced techniques
• Tips and tricks to approach difficult lesions
• Preventing and Managing Adverse Events Following Resection

Session 6   Lower GI  - Small bowel endoscopy (video-capsule endoscopy/device-assisted enteroscopy

• The Patient with Obscure Bleeding - What to Do?
• Technical Tips and Tricks for Device-Assisted Enteroscopy
• Endotherapy Options with Device-Assisted Enteroscopy