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OBJECTIVES

At the conclusion of this activity, participants should be able to:

• Demonstrate enhanced problem solving skills relevant to the diagnosis and treatment of patients    with gastrointestinal diseases.
• Interpret clinical information - including histopathology slides, body imaging  pictures, and endoscopic photographs - in order to choose the best diagnostic or treatment strategy  in patients with gastrointestinal diseases.
• Understand and utilize recently published information regarding the diagnosis and management of gastrointestinal diseases.

TARGET AUDIENCE

Practicing physicians, residents and fellows in gastroenterology, internal medicine, primary care, pathology, and other specialties and subspecialties who treat patients with gastrointestinal disorders.

FORMAT

GI Grand Rounds provides ongoing, practice-oriented, patient-centered education related to the diagnosis and management of gastrointestinal diseases. In this weekly, one-hour conference interesting, challenging, exemplary, or unusual cases are presented by fellows and faculty from the consultation services at the Baylor affiliated hospitals. The details of the history, PE, lab, endoscopy, imaging studies, and pathology are presented in a step-wise fashion to recreate diagnostic and management problems. Three to five take-home lessons are emphasized.

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Last modified: March 08, 2006