Insights Into Insides: Leaving Anorectal Behind

The bowel doesn’t stop at the rectum.

You know there’s more to it than that. Your patients suffer from bloating, pain, flatulence, and generally disgruntled and uncooperative bowels. It’s one thing to be great clinically with an anorectal focus, but with this, the first course in a comprehensive bowel series, we are leaving a focus on straight anorectal behind!

Insights Into Insides is the foundational course about understanding your patients' bowel function. We take a trip into transit time. We get stuck into constipation. We bulk out your knowledge on fibre. We answer your urgent questions about diarrhea. 

Some of what we have in store:

• The 5-step template for effectively addressing any bowel concern with your patient
• The 3-faceted framework for understanding constipation
• How to ensure your bowel diary gives you clarity, not a muddled mess
• Which factor on the bowel diary will trick you into missing a fundamental problem
• Tests you can use in clinic for transit time: simple versus sophisticated
• Pros and cons of recommending different fibre sources – and how to stay within your scope
• The Pscience of psyllium, but also psome of its psinister psecrets
• Why you really need to be able to recognize effective screening for coeliac disease
• Prebiotics and probiotics for constipation

This course is chock-full of information to make you do what you do with bowels a whole lot more effectively. This course is a prerequisite for advanced courses that go into detail on topics like the gut microbiome, irritable bowel syndrome, visceral hypersensitivity, the gut-brain axis and intestinal permeability. The bottom line is, you’ve got to get fabulous at fundamentals first. Irrespective of any bloating, you really need to get this course under your belt!