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Week 1.1 - Grand tour of Alimentary Canal
What are the 2 main parts of the ...,
What is the gi tract 2,
What are the accessory organs of ...
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Week 1.2 - General Structure of Alimentary Canal
What is the length from the oesop...,
What is the general structural or...,
What are the 3 layers of the muco...
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Week 1.3 - Carbohydrate digestion and absorption
Why do we store nutrients as macr...,
What form do monosaccharide hexos...,
What does the suffix oses mean 3
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Week 1.4 - Protein, lipid and vitamin digestion and absorption
What are the 2 types of vitamins 1,
What is the structural makeup of ...,
What may a post translational tra...
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Week 1.5 - Upper Respiratory Tract Structure and Function
What are the 3 salivary glands in...,
What is saliva made up of 2,
What are mucins 3
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Week 2.1 - Gastric Secretion
What is the function of the fundus 1,
What is the function of the stoma...,
What is the function of the antrum 3
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Week 2.2 - Gastric Acid Secretion
What are the 2 mechanisms stimula...,
What occurs in the stimulatory ce...,
What is the order of the parasymp...
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Week 2.3 - Gastric Motility and Pancreatic Function
What are peristaltic waves 1,
What produces peristaltic waves a...,
Stomach body muscle vs antrum mus...
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Week 2.4 - Pathology of Upper Gastro-Intestinal Tract
What is the most common cause of ...,
How can obesity lead to acid refl...,
What are 5 pathologies of the upp...
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Week 2.5 - Oesophageal Disorders
Where does the oesophagus begin a...,
What type of muscle is found in t...,
What nerve mediates movement of f...
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Week 2.6 - H.pylori and Gastric Disease
What is the most common cause of ...,
How does hpylori colonise 2,
What is the clinical outcome of h...
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Week 2.7 - Dyspepsia
What is dyspepsia 1,
What symptoms are categorised as ...,
What is epigastric pain 3
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Week 2.8 - Upper GI Surgery
What 4 upper gastro intestinal su...,
What is the incidence of oesophag...,
What is the purpose of staging oe...
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Week 2.9 - Liver Structure and Function
What is the liver weight signific...,
How many lobes are in the liver a...,
How many ligaments are in the liv...
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Week 2.10 - Bile and Gallbladder
What are bile pigments 1,
What is billirubin and what happe...,
How are bile acids made 3
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Week 2.11 - Hepato-Biliary Pathology
What are the functions of the liv...,
Why cant the liver store bile 2,
What are 5 pathologies of the liv...
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Week 3.1 - LFT's and Jaundice
What nutrients does the liver sto...,
What are 8 liver function tests 2,
Why is bilirubin test significant 3
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Week 3.2 - Chronic Liver Disease
How long must a liver disease occ...,
What are some examples of chronic...,
What are causes of cirrhosis 3
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Week 3.3 - Hepatitis (Liver Symposium)
What are the types of hepatitis a...,
What is the clinical course of he...,
What is the transmission of hepa 3
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Week 3.4 - Liver Symposium 2
What is drug induced liver disease 1,
What is treatment for drug induce...,
What is nafld and associations 3
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Week 3.5 - Alcohol Related Liver Disease
What are some alcohol related liv...,
How is alcohol toxic to the liver 2,
What causes variation in our abil...
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Week 3.6 - Hepato-Biliary Surgery
What are 7 presentations of galls...,
What is choledocho lithiasis 2,
What are bile stones made of 3
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Weke 3.7 - Surgery for Pancreatic Disorders
What 4 surgeries will we discuss 1,
What are risk factors for pancrea...,
How do pancreatic cancer patients...
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Week 3.8 - Pancreatic Disease
What is chronic pancreatitis 1,
What are causes of chronic pancre...,
What are common symptoms of chron...
19
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Week 3.9 - Small Intestine Structure and Function
How long is the duodenum jejunum ...,
What is the duodenum responsible ...,
What is the jejunum responsible f...
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Week 3.10 - Large Intestine Structure and Function
Why is appendicitis common 1,
What is the length of the large i...,
What does the muscularis externa ...
22
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Week 4.1 - Bowel Pathology
What is though to be the cause of...,
What is the pathophysiology of ibd 2,
How do you diagnose ibd 3
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Week 4.2 - The Gut Microbiota
What is the ph in the mouth stoma...,
What factors change the dominant ...,
What determines the composition o...
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Week 4.3 - Functional GI Disorders
What is non ulcer dyspepsia 1,
How do you diagnose non ulcer dys...,
How do you diagnose vomiting and ...
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Week 4.4 - Inflammatory Bowel Disease
What is microscopic colitis 1,
What are 2 types of microscopic c...,
What are symptoms of microscopic ...
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Week 4.5 - IBD Treatment
What are the aims of treatment of...,
What are the step up medications ...,
When do we use 5asa s 3
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Week 4.6 - Acute Gastrointestinal Bleeding
What splits upper gi bleeding fro...,
What does upper gi bleeding prese...,
What does lower gi bleeding prese...
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Week 4.7 - Acute Abdomen
What is the acute abdomen 1,
What are the 3 most common aetiol...,
How does infection get into the p...
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Week 5.1 - Colorectal Cancer
What are the majority of colorect...,
Where do you often find crc 2,
What is the aetiology of colorect...
20
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Week 5.2 - Colorectal Surgery
What is the most to least common ...,
What do we perform surgery on 2,
What are types of surgery we carr...
27
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Week 5.3 - Anorectal Disorders
What is the anorectal function 1,
What does anorectal function requ...,
What are haemorrhoids 3
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Week 5.4 - Gastro-Intestinal Pharmacology
What is important to rememeber wh...,
What are the main drug classes in...,
What is the neuronal control of gi 3
26
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Week 5.5 - Gastro-Intestinal Drugs
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