Curriculum Block

Objectives

• Describe and understand the small bowel, its length and divisions: duodenum, parts (first, second, third and fourth), duodenal cap or bulb, openings into the duodenum, duodenojejunal junction, ligament of Treitz, blood and nerve supply and its lymph drainage.
• Describe and understand the jejunum and ileum, their features, ileocecal junction and valve, blood and nerve supply and its lymph drainage.
• Identify and understand right colic (hepatic) flexure , left colic (splenic) flexure , paracolic gutters, subphrenic spaces, and peritoneal pouches in the pelvis.
• Identify the pancreas its divisions, ducts (major and minor duct), blood, nerve supply and lymph drainage.
• Identify the liver, its lobes, ligaments. Its blood, nerve supply and lymph drainage.
• Identify the gall bladder, its division and function, blood, nerve supply and lymph drainage .
• Identify and understand the biliary tree (right and left hepatic duct, common hepatic duct, cystic duct, common bile duct), major and minor duodenal papilla, ampulla of Vater and sphincter of Oddi.
• Understand the portal system, sites of porto systemic anastomosis, portal hypertension (pre, intra and post hepatic).

Tags

Anatomy Gastroenterology and Nutrition Medical Foundation 3 Part 3 Week 3 Part 3 Week 3 Gastroenterology 2.2 Apply biomedical scientific principles fundamental to health care for patients and populations. Anatomy [A] Biliary Tract [A03.159] Digestive System [A03] Gallbladder [A03.159.439] Gastrointestinal Tract [A03.556] Hepatobiliary Elimination [G10.261.326.415] Intestine, Small [A03.556.124.684] Intestines [A03.556.124] Liver [A03.620]