Scientific advances are constantly improving the quality of surgical practice. Therefore, keeping up-to-date is key to providing better care to your patients"

In recent years, Update on General and Digestive System Surgery has experienced remarkable developments that are largely the result of overcoming increasingly complex challenges associated with surgical practice, especially in the areas of solid organ transplantation, oncological surgery, emergency surgery, telesurgery, and robotic surgery. In these fields, technological and computer innovations, the use of biomaterials, and techniques such as radiodiagnosis, have completely changed the landscape.  

In this sense, new developments in the surgical field oblige specialists to update their knowledge, to study the available evidence, and to develop new skills that allow them to keep up with technological and scientific advances that subsequently improve the health of patients. 

Therefore, this professional master’s degree in Update on General and Digestive System Surgery allows specialists to access this knowledge simply, while adapting the process to their personal and professional needs. 

Get back to the forefront as a professional in general surgery thanks to a professional master’s degree designed entirely to update your knowledge"

This professional master’s degree in Update on General and Digestive System Surgery contains the most complete and up-to-date scientific program on the market. The most outstanding features are the following: 

• Development of more than 80 clinical cases, recorded with POV (Point Of View) systems from different angles, presented by experts in surgery and other specialties. The graphic, schematic, and eminently practical contents with which they are created provide scientific and practical information on the disciplines that are essential for professional practice
• Presentation of practical workshops on procedures and techniques
• An algorithm-based interactive learning system for decision-making in the clinical situations presented throughout the course
• Action protocols and clinical practice guidelines, where to disseminate the most important developments in the specialty
• Theoretical lessons, questions to the expert, debate forums on controversial topics, and individual reflection assignments
• Special emphasis on test-based medicine and research methodologies in surgical procedures
• Access to contents from any fixed or portable device with an internet connection

Move back to the forefront of general surgery with this professional master’s degree, designed so that you can expand your knowledge in the most comprehensive way possible"

The teaching staff includes a team of healthcare professionals, who bring their experience to this training program, as well as renowned specialists from leading scientific societies.

The multimedia content developed with the latest educational technology will provide the surgeon with situated and contextual learning, i.e., a simulated environment that will provide immersive training program to train in real situations.

This program is designed around Problem Based Learning, whereby the surgeon must try to solve the different professional practice situations that arise during the course. For this reason, you will be assisted by an innovative, interactive video system created by renowned and experienced experts in the field of general and digestive system surgery with extensive teaching experience.

It is the best academic program on the market in this field, also because of its price-quality ratio"

Improve your surgical skills with this specialized training and become a sought-after professional”

As stated, the purpose of this university learning program is to update the knowledge of professionals in General and Digestive System Surgery. It is the first one taught in Spanish that fulfills the triple objective of updating scientific-technical knowledge, professional competence and updating skills and abilities, and updating professional certificates and accreditations. The following is a detailed breakdown of the objectives that the teaching team has set for this professional master’s degree program.

This program will increase your confidence in surgical practice, and will help you to continue to grow professionally"

General Objective

• Learn about latest advancements in the most frequently used procedures and techniques for routine clinical practice in General and Digestive System Surgery; as such, this program provides answers to questions commonly posed by specialists

Specific Objectives

• Define the rationale, indications, limitations, and cost-effectiveness of esophagogastric surgical techniques and alternative treatments
• Establish the differences between diaphragmatic hernias and sliding hiatal hernias
• Define the treatment of achalasia, as well as its endoscopic and surgical therapeutic management
• Address management of benign esophagogastric tumors
• Establish approach and treatment plan for esophageal diverticula
• Explain practical management of patients with esophagogastric cancer 
• Describe the principles and processes of bariatric surgery
• Explain the gastric sleeve process within restrictive bariatric surgery
• Emphasize the importance of gastric bypass for the treatment of morbid obesity, and describe the malabsorptive restrictive surgical process
• Describe the indications of other bariatric techniques, such as the elastic band or duodenal switch methods
• Address the surgical treatment of cholelithiasis
• Surgical treatment of cholestatic diseases and bile duct and gallbladder tumors
• Explain surgical process in the treatment of cysts and primary sclerosing cholangitis
• Describe the surgical approach to bile duct tumors
• Describe the surgical approach to gallbladder tumors 
• Define and characterize primary liver tumors and identify applications of interventional radiology in liver lesions
• Address treatment of liver metastases of colorectal and non-colorectal origin
• Describe candidate selection criteria for liver transplantation, surgical basis of transplantation, and immunosuppressive drugs
• Explain the surgical approach to liver cysts and abscesses
• Establish differences between and characterize acute and chronic pancreatitis
• Analyze surgical processes in treatment of pancreatic tumors and anatomopathological considerations in pancreatic cancer
• Address surgical management of neuroendocrine tumors 
• Address surgical management of cystic tumors of the pancreas
• Lay the foundations for medical oncology and radiotherapy in colon cancer
• Describe principles of colon cancer surgery
• Establish differential characteristics in right, left and transverse colon cancer approaches
• Describe rectal cancer surgery principles
• Describe characteristics, similarities and differences in abdominal, transanal and combined approaches to rectal cancer surgery
• Address rectal prolapse and rectocele surgical management
• Explain surgical approach in deep pelvic endometriosis treatment

Acquire the skills required to specialize in this field and give a boost to your profession"