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, 2009 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