GI Cases - A Complete Transit of the Gastrointestinal Tract - 01 OCTOBER 2025

Via interactive lectures, solidify your knowledge on the complexities of the "third brain" (the gastrointestinal system). During this one-day course we will discuss chronic enteropathies in cats and dogs, dive into the microbiome, gulp down dysphagia, poke the pancreas and settle the stomach with gastroprotectants. A complete transit of the gastrointestinal tract!

Lunch and refreshments provided.

Course Description

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Course Description

·       Chronic enteropathy and small cell lymphoma in cats. Henry Cloete

 

·       Approach to acute and chronic diarrhoea in dogs. When is endoscopy useful? James Barton

 

·       The microbiome and faecal microbiota transplantation. What is value is transpoosion? PJ Noble and Luke Woodward

 

·       Pancreatitis and the importance of enteral feeding. Conor Moloney

 

·       When food won't go down. Oesophageal disease and aerodigestive disorder. Kaitlin Turnbull 

 

·       Gastroprotectants (when to use and when not to use). Erin O'Connell

 

Learning Outcomes:

·       Apply a logical and systematic approach to the diagnosis and management of acute and chronic diarrhoea in dogs, chronic enteropathies in cats, pancreatitis and oesophageal disorders.

·       Learn when and how to do a faecal microbiota transplant. 

·       Differentiate when it is and when it is not appropriate to use a protein-pump inhibitor.

 

Speakers

Erin O'Connell, Senior Lecturer in Small Animal Internal Medicine, jointed by members of the Small Animal Internal Medicine Team from the University Small Animal Teaching Hospital. 

 

 

This course is suitable for all general practitioners looking to refresh their knowledge of the GI tract and learn the most up to date and evidence-based approach to their GI cases in general practice.