Practical Gastroenterology : An Update for Primary Care in 2015

Objectives:
- Achieve confidence in the management of the common gastrointestinal disorders observed in clinic and the hospital in collaboration with a consulting gastroenterologist
- Identify indications for esophageal manometry in patients with dysphagia
- Inform patients less than 50 years of the yield of upper endoscopy for dyspepsia
- Explain the multidisciplinary management of Barrett’s esophagus
- Describe the clinical manifestations, diagnosis and management of gastroparesis
- Review the most current therapies approved by the Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C during the last 12 months
- Summarize the latest guidelines on the management of chronic hepatitis C genotype 1
- Describe the indications and limitations of invasive procedures in patients with chronic abdominal pain
- Apply national colon cancer screening and surveillance guidelines to patients at average and high-risk for colon cancer development
- Discuss new perspectives in Clostridium difficile pathogenesis