Gastrointestinal and Biliary Tract Disorders: GIT Anatomy and Physiology, Manifestations, Assessment and Management

A twenty-two hour course on disorders of the gastrointestinal tract and the biliary system, taught at the Iten campus. It reviews the GIT and its accessory organs - the teeth, tongue, salivary glands, liver, gallbladder and pancreas - the six processes of digestion from ingestion to defecation, the four-layer histology with the myenteric and submucosal plexuses and the parasympathetic and sympathetic supply, and the arterial blood supply and venous drainage. It then takes the common manifestations in a patient with GIT disorders, how such a patient is assessed, and the individual conditions of the gut and of the biliary tract with their management.