Learning Objectives:

• Review of pancreatic cancer prognosis and process flow map of management
• Overview of EPIC program – Background and development
• Evaluate results of EPIC pilot project at the UAH
• Discuss strategies for expanding program to Edmonton Zone and Primary Care

Learning Objectives:

• Identify barriers to access for patients with GI conditions
• Review new processes for GI referrals in the Edmonton Zone
• Recognize the common reasons gastroenterologists receive referrals
• Identify key points in history that would make referrals more likely to be accepted

Learning Objectives:

• Identify risk factors for Barrett’s esophagus that require screening
• Describe medical and lifestyle interventions for Barrett’s esophagus
• Determine management recommendations for a patient with PPI refractory GERD
• Recognize special cases (ex. Post gastric sleeve) where BE screening may be warranted

Learning Objectives:

• Differentiate IBD medications that can safely be managed in primary care vs those that require specialist management
• Recognize common complications of IBD medications that may present in primary care
• Define the standard pre-biologic work up for IBD patients
• Determine IBD patients who may require additional screening interventions in primary care

Learning Objectives:

• Review the concept of functional GI disorders as diseases of the gut-brain axis
• Demonstrate the ability to make the diagnosis of DGBA
• Identify therapies for functional GI disorders which target the gut-brain axis

Learning Objectives:

• Describe evidence-based lifestyle and medical therapies for patients with NAFLD
• Identify patients with NALFD who would benefit from hepatology referral
• Review the long-term complications or associated conditions of NAFLD

Learning Objectives:

• Describe how to make a clinical diagnosis of functional bowel diseases
• Identify appropriate investigations to distinguish functional and organic bowel diseases
• Recognize symptom-based therapies for functional bowel diseases

Learning Objectives:

• Describe the available evidence for screening and diagnosis of alcohol use disorder for the busy family physician.
• Discuss the available pharmacologic options for managing alcohol use disorder and alcohol withdrawal in primary care.
• Summarize the evidence behind available treatment options for alcohol use disorder in primary care.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify appropriate investigations for a patient with a new diagnosis of ascites
• Review management (and follow up) of ascites in a patient with portal hypertension
• Determine the prognosis of decompensated liver disease

Learning Objectives:

• Apply cirrhosiscare.ca resources to patients with decompensated liver disease
• Identify initial management for patients with hepatic encephalopathy, ascites, and esophageal varices
• Review screening tests appropriate for patients with decompensated liver disease

Learning Objectives:

• Describe the diagnostic criteria and initial work-up for cyclic vomiting syndrome.
• Review primary care management of symptoms of CVS.

Learning Objectives:

• Determine how to make a clinical diagnosis of diverticulitis
• Identify the role of antibiotics in patients with diverticulitis
• Review the role of colonoscopy in a patient with diverticulitis