This professional master’s degree offers you access to the most innovative protocols in the organization of an increasingly advanced service”

A professional master’s degree created to take professionals through the essential knowledge in each and every one of the areas that make up a high-level Bariatric Unit”

This professional master’s degree in Update on Bariatric Surgery not only covers all the controversial topics in the field of obesity surgery but rather extends the contents of other similar Update on Bariatric Surgery. Therefore, it is undoubtedly the most complete and updated professional master’s degree on the market.  
 
Among the the aspects which differentiate this course from others, there is a module dedicated to endoscopic and percutaneous treatments, the management and treatment of bariatric emergencies, the follow-up and nutritional requirements of the patient in the postoperative period, and a module related to metabolic surgery. 
 
In the past few years, we have seen the emergence of multiple new endoscopic and percutaneous treatments aimed at treating obesity and the associated complications, but its actual usefulness is relatively unknown.  The Master’s Degree aims to provide up-to-date information on the different alternatives to endoscopic obesity treatment that currently exist. The main focus is on technical aspects and on the existing evidence in the literature on its clinical utility, both in the primary treatment of obesity and in its therapeutic role in weight regain, or in the management of post-surgical complications.
 
The peculiarities of morbidly obese patient in postoperative care, which differentiate them from standard postoperative patients, have led to the creation of a module exclusively dedicated to the management of postoperative emergencies in this type of patient. This module is of extreme importance due to the legal implications involved. Although postoperative complications are infrequent these days, ignoring these peculiarities can lead to a fatal outcome for the patient. Therefore, it is essential that every surgeon who wants to enter into a multidisciplinary bariatric surgery unit has knowledge of these.  
 
What differentiates this course from other master’s degrees on the market, is the focus on the follow-up treatment and nutritional needs of a bariatric patient during the postoperative period. The bariatric surgeon must know how to appropriately monitor their patients, know how to identify and correlate the patient’s symptoms with possible nutritional deficits and to adopt the appropriate therapeutic measures in each case. 
 
Metabolic Surgery is no less important. Metabolic surgery consists of the application of the classic surgical techniques of bariatric surgery to patients with a mild obesity index (BMI < 35) or significant obesity (BMI 35-40) who suffer from type II diabetes mellitus and who are unable to achieve the desired blood glucose levels despite adequate medical treatment. The module not only describes the current scientific evidence of metabolic surgery but also describes the pathophysiological basis of metabolic syndrome, the pathophysiology of diabetes and its therapeutic alternatives, but also controversial aspects such as the role of microbiota, loop lengths, bile acids, NASH, bone metabolism, and the role of bariatric surgery on hypogonadism and polycystic ovary syndrome.
 
Finally, it is important to highlight the chapter on the Creation of Behavioral Therapy Programs for the maintenance of weight loss after surgery. The aspects related to aesthetic and body contouring surgery are of great interest to our patients, as well as the importance of the impact of physical training programs in the maintenance of weight loss before and after bariatric surgery. Together with behavioral therapy, these seem to be the two most important aspects for achieving and maintaining body weight after bariatric surgery.
 
In order to achieve the teaching objectives, this program has different didactic resources: self-assessment activities, video lectures explaining the most complex points of the subject, clinical cases, videos on the techniques used showing practical procedures and recommended readings.

A unique training that stands out for the quality of its contents and its excellent teaching staff, with which you will achieve professional success.

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

This professional master’s degree in Update on 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
• 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 professional master’s degree have been selected based on two criteria: the excellence of their medical practice in the field of the creation, promotion and maintenance of the bariatric units, and their proven didactic capacity: 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 the theoretical knowledge in an efficient way, but, above all, will bring their practical knowledge derived from their own experience to the course: one of the differential qualities of this Update on Bariatric Surgery

The efficiency of the methodological design of this master's degree, enhances the student's understanding of the subject. Developed by a multidisciplinary team of e-learning experts, it integrates the latest advances in educational technology. In this way, you will be able to study with a range of easy-to-use and versatile multimedia tools that will give you the necessary skills you need for your specialization. 

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 learning:  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 professional master’s degree will take you through different teaching approaches to allow you to learn in a dynamic and effective way”

Our innovative telepractice concept will give you the opportunity to learn through an immersive experience, which will provide you with a faster integration and a much more realistic view of the contents: “learning from an expert”

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

• Learn the key elements of obesity surgery
• Perform an exhaustive review of the latest scientific evidence available  
• Describe and understand the most advanced techniques in bariatric surgery
• Describe the theoretical framework and praxis of multidisciplinary obesity teams 
• Describe the aspects of clinical management
• Describe the aspects of economical management 
• Describe the medical legal aspects of bariatric surgery
• Describe the different endoscopic and percutaneous techniques in the treatment of obesity
• Analyze the short-term to medium-term results achieved with these procedures 
• Evaluate complications
• Establish the mechanisms of action for each technique
• Know the historical background and beginnings of obesity surgery
• Study the different surgical techniques in the treatment of obesity
• Establish which is the most appropriate surgical technique for each patient
• Define ERAS protocols in bariatric surgery
• Break down the different sections within the protocol
• Analyze the results obtained through the implementation of these protocols
• Understand the importance of multidisciplinary management
• Describe the semiology peculiarities of the bariatric patient and the different tools available for the diagnosis of complications
• Know the most common surgical complications involved in bariatric surgery
• Evaluate the specific medical and nutritional complications during bariatric procedures
• 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
• Determine how different techniques can influence the evolution of the patient
• Monitor the nutritional evolution of the patient
• Establish the basic recommendations in relation to the special nutritional requirements of children, adolescents and elderly candidates in bariatric surgery
• Know the nutritional requirements during pregnancy and breastfeeding in women who have previously undergone bariatric surgery
• Identify the specific nutritional risks of the menopause after bariatric surgery
• Know 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
• 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
• Obtain a general vision of the psychotherapy approach in postoperative follow-up care
• Know the criteria used for the initial assessment of a patient with aesthetic consequences of obesity after bariatric surgery
• Establish quality standards and appropriate training programs
• Identify the most recent technical advances (robotic surgery and NOTES)

Specific Objectives

• Gain an in-depth understanding of obesity as a clinical condition and its pathophysiology
• Correctly evaluate a patient with obesity
• Learn advanced practical knowledge of dietary, pharmacological treatment and movement education of obesity
• Establish the physiological basis of action in these procedures
• Describe the development of techniques
• Analyze hormonal effects
• Justify the causes of decreased appetite
• Analyze the safety of treatment  
• Evaluate the quality of life during and after the treatment
• Describe adjuvant methods with a synergistic effect in these procedures
• Know the historical framework of the origin of each of the bariatric techniques
• Describe step-by-step the development of surgical techniques
• Establish the physiological bases and mechanisms of action in these procedures
• Highlight the most accepted indications of each of the interventions
• Analyze the short-term to medium-term results achieved with these procedures
• Explain the postoperative complications associated with each of the different surgical techniques
• Analyze the role of each of the members of a multidisciplinary group
• Establish the importance of information and patient participation in perioperative care
• Evaluate the importance of creating protocols
• Define the measures included in the ERAS protocols
• Analyze the peculiarities of the ERAS protocols in bariatric surgery
• Identify problems in the implementation of protocols
• Develop strategies to promote universal implantation
• Establish guidelines and advice for the reintroduction of physical activity after surgery
• Understand the benefits of weight loss, nutritional optimization and comorbidity preoperatively in bariatric surgery
• Know the guidelines for dietary treatment after bariatric surgery, depending on the type of surgery
• Identify the specific nutritional risks in the perioperative period
• Analyze the most important findings in the anamnesis and physical examination of bariatric patients, as well as the usefulness of each of the auxiliary diagnostic methods
• Describe the most important complications in endoscopic treatment procedures for obesity, as well as their diagnosis and management
• Study the relative aspects of leakages and fistulas following the different types of surgical techniques, determining the most appropriate algorithm in the treatment of each one
• Establish the main causes of intestinal obstruction which occurs in patients undergoing bariatric surgery, their differential diagnosis and treatment
• Know the most important aspects in the treatment and management of gastrointestinal bleeding and/ or hemoperitoneum after bariatric surgery
• Study the etiology and management of marginal ulcer, stenosis and abdominal digestive disorders in the bariatric patient
• Analyze hepato-biliary complications resulting from post-surgical intestinal malabsorption and bacterial overgrowth after surgery
• Establish the diagnosis and treatment of endocrine, cardiac and renal complications in the postoperative period of bariatric surgery
• Describe the nutritional or toxic deficits most frequently seen in the emergency department after obesity surgery
• Study the etiology and chronic pain management 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 towards 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 the occurence of 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
• Describe the parameters to be evaluated in a correct nutritional assessment
• Define the guidelines for providing appropriate nutritional education
• Analyze the nutritional needs of patients in relation to an intervention
• Establish a program for monitoring the nutritional status of a patient
• Identify the nutritional risk during pregnancy and breastfeeding in women who have previously undergone bariatric surgery
• Know the maternal-fetal outcomes of this type of pregnancy
• Identify the specific risks of each type of surgery
• Know the guidelines for supplementation of micronutrients during pregnancy and breastfeeding
• Know the nutritional treatment guidelines during menopause in women who have previously undergone bariatric surgery
• Identify the occurrence of anemia, hypoproteinemia and neurological disorders
• Understand the importance of loop lengths in bariatric surgery
• Determine the influence of the 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
• Know the regeneration changes in the pancreas and hyperinsulinism 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
• Analyze the psychological profile of the “bariatric patient” and there difficulties in adapting to the postoperative process
• Learn about the process of psychological evaluation and intervention following surgery aimed at enhancing the benefits of surgery and reduce the risk of weight regain
• Identify the most common areas of the body affected by excess skin following weight loss
• Know the most relevant surgical techniques used according to the affected area, to remove skin excesses
• Identify the benefits of robotic surgery and NOTES
• Establish the criteria for prioritizing patients on the surgical waiting list
• Analyze the cost benefit relationship in bariatric surgery
• Establish quality standards
• Assess the advantages and disadvantages of bariatric tourism
• Identify quality of life indicator parameters
• Weigh up the pros and cons of different surgical training methods

Achieve your goals by gaining up-to-date knowledge of the latest techniques and medical advances in the area of bariatric surgery through a professional master’s degree of high educational and scientific demand”