WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

This course is designed for 40 graduate and postgraduate students in healthcare and/or research with an interest in clinical nutrition

WHAT WILL YOU LEARN?

The course will cover the following areas:

Nutritional assessment
Estimation of nutritional requirements
Nutrient metabolism
Regulation of metabolic pathways
The impact of nutritional disorders on clinical status
Nutritional support and outcomes

Genetics and outcome

Nutrition in

   - gastrointestinal diseases
    - paediatrics
    - the elderly
Specific nutrition-related diseases
    - obesity
    - diabetes
    - osteoporosis

This course is intended to be very practical and, whenever possible, actual clinical cases will be used as a basis for discussion. Simultanously, patho-physiological backgrounds will be discussed.

HOW DO YOU APPLY?

You must send us

• a letter of recommendation from the Director of your Institute
  

• a curriculum vitae stating your:

  • personal data, full address, telephone, fax and e-mail details

  • your academic qualifications

  • your career degree(s) and the year(s) in which they were obtained

  • a brief description of your current and previous professional activities and functions

  • any particular areas of interest

  • a list of your publications

Send your complete application not later than January 31st, 2008 to: Dr. W.G. van Gemert, Maastricht University, Dept. of Surgery, Academic Hospital Maastricht,
P.O. Box 5800, 6202 AZ Maastricht,
The Netherlands.
For further information, contact:
Tonneke Roquet , Secretary Dept of Surgery
Phone: + 31-43-387.74.89
Fax:  + 31-43-387.54.73

As the number of openings is limited to 40, you cannot anticipate on acceptance.

HOW WILL YOU LEARN?

Learning is based on a multiprofessional problem solving approach

• Each lecture will be discussed in small groups using specific clinical cases

• Delegates will identify their own topics for further learning during the evenings

• The outcomes of the problem-based learning sessions will be discussed the following morning in a plenary session

• Patient demonstrations will be given

• Participants are invited to give short presentations (5 min) involving their own experiences or/and research 

All delegates will be able to download additional literature to read and other course material when their application is accepted and confirmed.

ORGANISING COMMITTEE

Wim G. van Gemert, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Surgery, Head Nutrition Team
Dept. of Surgery, Academic Hospital Maastricht, Maastricht University.

Steven W.M. Olde Damink, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Surgery,
Dept. of Surgery, Academic Hospital Maastricht, Maastricht University.

Peter B. Soeters, MD, PhD

Professor of Surgery,

Dept. of Surgery, Academic Hospital Maastricht, Maastricht University.

EDUCATIONAL COMMITTEE

Prof. Alastair Forbes, MD, PhD

Chairman of ESPEN Educational and Clinical Practice Committee

Professor of Gastroenterology and Clinical Nutrition

University College Hospital

235 Euston Road

London, NW1 2BU

Tel: ## 44 (0) 8451 555 000 X3512

Fax: ## 44 (0) 20 7380 9699

last update 03.07.2007

14th ESPEN Course in Clinical Nutrition
Bohinj, October 20th-25th, 2007

Aims
To provide clinically relevant information about Clinical Nutrition; to enable participants to start a Clinical Nutrition programme back in their workplace, and to introduce the LLL programme.

Who should attend
Young (up to 35 years) European physicians from different specialties who have an interest in Clinical Nutrition (approximately 60 participants).

Learning objectives
The course will be held as plenary lectures, LLL courses and group-working practical demonstrations, as well as case-based problem-solving discussions; each clinical case will be plenary debated during the next morning by the students together with the tutors.
Main areas to be covered are: nutritional assessment, prevention and treatment of malnutrition, techniques, control and complications of nutritional support, nutrition in different diseases: critically ill, sepsis, single and multiple organ failure, gastrointestinal disorders, cardiac, lung and kidney failure and many other clinical practice topics.

Programme

It can be downloaded as a word document.

Local Organising Committee

ESPEN Education and Clinical Practice Committee

Prof. Alastair Forbes, MD, PhD
Chairman of ESPEN Educational and Clinical Practice Committee
Professor of Gastroenterology and Clinical Nutrition
University College Hospital
235 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BU
Tel: ## 44 (0) 8451 555 000 X3512
Fax: ## 44 (0) 20 7380 9699

Registration

Please send by e-mail, not later than August 1st, 2007:

- a letter of recommendation from the Head of your Department
- a curriculum vitae stating your:

o personal data, full address, telephone, fax and e-mail
o professional and/or academic qualifications
o career degree(s) and the year(s) in which they were obtained
o a brief description of your professional activities and functions

Registration and accomodation fees