The postgraduate diploma was created to take the professional through the essential knowledge in each and every one of the areas that make up a high-level Bariatric Unit"

Obesity is the most common metabolic disease in the western world and one of the most important health problems in developed countries. Nowadays, surgery is considered to be the only treatment capable of offering a substantial and sustained weight loss over time, reducing comorbidities and improving patient quality of life. 

In the last decade, the number of annual bariatric procedures has skyrocketed exponentially, leading to an increase in the creation of multidisciplinary bariatric surgery units throughout the world. This has generated a greater demand for healthcare professionals involved in the treatment of this pathology, and training and accreditation programs in bariatric surgery have increased. 

Bariatric surgery has undergone a spectacular development in recent years, the expansion of surgical indications hand in hand with metabolic surgery, technological and robotic innovation, the emergence of new surgical techniques and the exponential growth of vertical gastrectomy, the difficulty to standardize the most effective treatment for weight regain and recurrence of comorbidities, all these factors force both the general and digestive surgeon as well as the specialist in bariatric surgery to update their knowledge, study the available evidence, and develop new skills that will allow them to keep up with the changes and continue to offer good quality treatment to their patients. 

The postgraduate diploma in Postgraduate Diploma in Revision Surgery, Metabolic Surgery and Special Situations after Bariatric Surgery has been conceived to offer medical professionals the necessary training to practice as a bariatric surgeon. This training is a unique opportunity as it contains the most complete and up-to-date scientific program on the market. Its topics allow specialists to access all the necessary knowledge based on scientific evidence and adapt their training process to their personal and professional needs. 

Our teaching staff is integrated by different medical professionals of recognized prestige belonging to the field of Obesity (surgeons, endocrinologists, nutritionists, psychologists, gastroenterologists, etc.), who are also references in the field of bariatric surgery. A multidisciplinary team of experienced professionals who will faithfully develop theoretical knowledge and apply their practical experiences to the service of the student, one of the differential qualities of this postgraduate diploma.

A unique training program with which you can achieve professional success"

This postgraduate diploma in Postgraduate Diploma in Revision Surgery, Metabolic Surgery and Special Situations after Bariatric Surgery offers you the advantages of a high-level scientific, teaching, and technological course.  These are some of its most notable features: 

• Latest technology in online teaching software
• Highly visual teaching system, supported by graphic and schematic contents that are easy to assimilate and understand
• Practical cases presented by practising experts
• State-of-the-art interactive video systems
• Teaching supported by telepractice
• Continuous updating and recycling systems
• Self-regulating learning: full compatibility with other occupations
• Practical exercises for self-evaluation and learning verification
• Support groups and educational synergies: questions to the expert, debate and knowledge forums
• Communication with the teacher and individual reflection work
• Content that is accessible from any fixed or portable device with an Internet connection
• Supplementary documentation databases are permanently available, even after the course

The teachers of this postgraduate diploma have been selected based on two criteria: the excellence of their medical practice in the field of the creation, promotion and maintenance of bariatric units, and their proven didactic capacity. All in order to offer you the high quality training program that you need"

Our teaching staff is composed of medical professionals, practising specialists. In this way, we ensure that we provide you with the training update we are aiming for. A multidisciplinary team of professors with training and experience in different environments, who will develop theoretical knowledge effectively, but, above all, will bring their practical knowledge derived from their own experience to the course: one of the differential qualities of this program. 

This mastery of the subject is complemented by the effectiveness of the methodology used in the design of this postgraduate diploma. Developed by a multidisciplinary team of e-learning experts, it integrates the latest advances in educational technology. This way, you will be able to study with a range of comfortable and versatile multimedia tools that will give you the operability you need in your training.  

The design of this program is based on Problem-Based Learning: an approach that conceives learning as a highly practical process. To achieve this remotely, we will use telepractice:  with the help of an innovative interactive video system, and learning from an expert, you will be able to acquire the knowledge as if you were actually dealing with the scenario you are learning about. A concept that will allow you to integrate and fix learning in a more realistic and permanent way. 

With a methodological design based on proven teaching techniques, this postgraduate diploma will take you through different teaching approaches to allow you to learn in a dynamic and effective way"

This program aims to train highly qualified professionals for the workplace. An objective that is complemented, moreover, in a global manner, by promoting human development that lays the foundations for a better society. This objective is focused on helping surgical professionals reach a much higher level of expertise and control, meeting all the requirements in the field of bariatric surgery. A goal that, in just a few months, you will be able to achieve with a highly intensive and precise course.

Our goal is yours: to provide you with the best online training and specialization course in Bariatric Surgery on the market. A highly qualified step, from the hands of the best professionals in this specialty"

General Objectives

• Become familiar with the history, concept and indications of metabolic surgery
• Understand the Anatomo-Physiological basis of metabolic surgery and inflammatory mediators
• Study the role of gastrointestinal hormones in the resolution of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus after bariatric surgery
• Establish the success or failure criteria of bariatric surgery
• Define the general characteristics and the surgical strategy in revision surgery
• Examine the general criteria of revision surgery in each of the bariatric surgery techniques
• Analyze the available evidence on bariatric surgery in patients with BMI < 35 kg/m2, in super obese patients, adolescents and women who wish to procreate
• Determine the adverse effects of bariatric surgery on bone metabolism and muscle mass
• Evaluate the current recommendations for bariatric surgery in patients who are candidates for solid organ transplantation or have associated cardiological, renal or psychiatric diseases
• Establish the significance of postoperative gastroesophageal reflux and abdominal wall alterations

Specific Objectives

• Understand the importance of loop lengths in bariatric surgery
• Determine the influence of microbiota on bariatric surgery
• Study the relationship between obesity and NASH
• Present the metabolic effects of manipulating intestinal bile acid availability after bariatric surgery
• Analyze the influence of bariatric surgery on hypogonadism and polycystic ovary syndrome
• Understand the regeneration changes in the pancreas and hyperinsulinism after bariatric surgery
• Describe the therapeutic alternatives in revision surgery of techniques no longer used
• Study the indications, technical details and results after adjustable gastric band revision surgery
• Analyze the different technical options for revision surgery after vertical gastrectomy, depending on whether there has been inadequate weight loss and/or weight regain, or due to the occurrence of complications
• Determine the etiology, diagnosis and therapeutic attitude toward complications and revision surgery after a gastric bypass
• Describe the indications, technical details and results after OAGB revision surgery
• Analyze the most relevant aspects of surgical revision for insufficient weight loss, weight regain and/or nutritional complications following duodenal crossover surgery
• Examine the most frequent indications for revision surgery after biliopancreatic diversion
• Establish the most appropriate surgical options in revision surgery due to malnutrition syndromes and severe nutritional complications following SADI-S
• Determine the role of endoscopic surgery in the management of complications and weight regain after bariatric surgery
• Analyze the safety of treatment in patients with BMI < 35kg/m2
• Evaluate the most appropriate techniques for obese patients
• Describe the complications that can occur in the abdominal wall involved in bariatric surgery
• Establish indications for surgery in patients who are candidates for solid organ transplantation
• Interpret the risk of alterations in bone metabolism
• Evaluate the risk of developing sarcopenia
• Quantify the risk-benefit ratio of surgery in when there is also a pre-existing renal, cardiac or psychiatric pathology
• Compare the results of different surgical techniques with conservative treatment
• Design future lines of work in superobese patients
• Assess the risk of pregnancy in patients put forward for bariatric surgery