Examine the most relevant developments in digestive functional tests, hepatobiliary pathology and digestive laparoscopy”.

Diagnosis, as well as prompt treatment and appropriate interventions are key in any type of clinical procedure. This is intensified in the Pediatric Digestive Surgery area, where, for example, when faced with common problems such as cleaning products ingestion, the specialist will require esophageal dilatation and advanced endoscopic techniques.

It is precisely endoscopy and minimally invasive surgery techniques that have created a particularly favorable field of action for specialists in all fields. Therefore, the pediatric surgeon dedicated to the digestive area must also have a certain mastery of robotics and current equipment, as well as enteral and parenteral nutritional assessment.

The present academic program delves precisely into all these aforementioned issues, serving as a reliable way of updating for all specialists in the area interested in Pediatric Digestive Surgery. The syllabus has been prepared by a large teaching team of experts in multiple pediatric surgical fields, providing both a theoretical and practical vision of all the topics covered.

As such, the student will delve into issues such as nutrition in the surgical child, new treatment techniques in intestinal volvulus or biliary tract atresia in a completely online setting. Without having to follow the strictness of a pre-established schedule, the specialist himself will have the freedom to decide at all times to accommodate the teaching load to his own interests.

Get up to date on the approach to patients with Short Bowel Syndrome, the surgical techniques used in the treatment of IBD and the most modern esophageal replacement techniques”

This postgraduate diploma in Pediatric Digestive Surgery contains the most complete and up-to-date scientific program on the market. The most important features include:

• The development of practical cases presented by experts in Pediatric Surgery
• The graphic, schematic, and practical contents with which they are created, provide scientific and practical information on the disciplines that are essential for professional practice
• Practical exercises where self-assessment can be used to improve learning
• Its special emphasis on innovative methodologies
• Theoretical lessons, questions to the expert, debate forums on controversial topics, and individual reflection assignments
• Content that is accessible from any fixed or portable device with an Internet connection

Access the Virtual Campus whenever you want, as it is available from any device with an internet connection 24 hours a day”

The program’s teaching staff includes professionals from the sector who contribute their work experience to this educational program, as well as renowned specialists from leading societies and prestigious universities.

Its multimedia content, developed with the latest educational technology, will allow the professional a situated and contextual learning, that is, a simulated environment that will provide an immersive training programmed to train in real situations.

The design of this program focuses on Problem-Based Learning, in which the professional will have to try to solve the different professional practice situations that will arise throughout the academic course. This will be done with the help of an innovative system of interactive videos made by renowned experts.

Update yourself with the most current technical procedures in Pediatric Digestive Surgery, supported by the clinical practice of the teaching staff"

Manage your own study time without the pressure of fixed classes or inflexible schedules"

One of the main objectives of this postgraduate diploma in Pediatric Digestive Surgery is to encourage the specialist's own critical thinking, an issue for which it is essential to access both the most rigorous techniques and the most current scientific postulates. Therefore, the entire syllabus has a distinctively practical approach, with continuous examples and real clinical analysis to adequately contextualize all the knowledge covered.

The vast amount of practical examples provided for each topic covered will give you a unique clinical perspective on state-of-the-art Pediatric Digestive Surgery”

General Objectives

• Develop specialized knowledge and current treatments in pediatric surgery
• Compile the different diagnostic methods, as well as the different therapeutic options, both medical and surgical depending on the pathology
• Expose the possible associated complications and the prognosis of these diseases
• Establish the current treatment guidelines for each of the pathologies described

Specific Objectives

Module 1. Pediatric Surgery Surgical Patient Management Trauma

• Robotics in Pediatric Surgery
• Generate knowledge in health care bioethics
• Analyze the most recent advances in laparoscopic and robotic surgery
• Determine the pre and post-operative nutritional management of the surgical patient
• Acquire the necessary knowledge to establish the different modes of special, enteral, parenteral and other feeding routes
• Establish the concept of bioethics Establishment of therapeutic effort limitation and palliative care
• Review the latest updates in laparoscopic surgery and share initial experiences in the introduction of robotic surgery applied to pediatric surgery, as well as in the fields that it applies

Module 2. General and Digestive Pediatric Surgery I

• Examine the new techniques and tests available for motility and functional disorders diagnosis
• Deepen in esophageal functional tests, especially the less common ones such as impedanciometry and esophageal manometry
• Analyze the treatments with the best results in esophageal replacement
• Determine the most frequent pathologies with current diagnostic and therapeutic techniques

Module 3. General and Digestive Pediatric Surgery II

• Determine the main digestive and hepatic pathologies that may present in pediatrics, including inflammatory bowel disease, short bowel syndrome and intestinal transplantation, coloproctology as well as hepatobiliary diseases and liver transplantation
• Acquire specialized knowledge about IBD and development of the various therapeutic options that can be applied
• Determine the different causes that can lead to intestinal failure Short bowel syndrome management in all its stages
• Establish patient management with anorectal malformations or Hirschsprung's disease
• Analyze the functional tests used in coloproctology, with special emphasis on anorectal manometry and its different indications
• Examine the most common hepatobiliopancreatic pathology

The thoroughness with which each topic and module has been detailed will exceed even your highest expectations”