Internal Medicine: Endoscopy Course Using Natural Orifices

Name: Internal Medicine: Endoscopy Course Using Natural Orifices
Start: 2025-09-10T00:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-09-14T23:59:59+02:00
Location: Neu-Isenburg / Germany

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Program Director:

Prof. Dr. Reto Neiger Dipl. ECVIM-CA, Dipl. ACVIM (DE)

Principal Course Master(s):

Prof. Dr. Reto Neiger Dipl. ECVIM-CA, Dipl. ACVIM (DE)

Course Master(s):

Dr. Christiane Stengel Dipl. ECVIM (DE)

Course Overview

This Internal medicine endoscopy course in small animals using natural orifices is designed for clinicians with no or basic skills in flexible and rigid endoscopy. We cover instrument handling from how to set up the endoscope to maintenance and cleaning. Many tricks are discussed and shown since both course masters have been involved in endoscopic teaching for many years. Classroom teaching on all aspects of endoscopy in internal medicine, starting from indications to complications, procedures and possible findings will be followed almost daily by a practical wet lab with various models (including ex-vivo organs).

Topics

set up and handling of flexible endoscopes
indications, procedure, technique in:

Oesophago-Gastro-Duodenoscopy
Colonoscopy
Rhinoscopy (flexible and rigid)
Bronchoscopy
Cystoscopy (flexible and rigid)

cleaning and storage
therapeutic endoscopic interventions
discussion of cases

Course Program (Subject to change)

Wednesday, 10 September 2025

09:00 – 09:30 Getting to know each other
09:30 – 10:30 1: Introduction to rigid endoscopy
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:15 2: Coughing
12:15 – 13:15 Wet Lab – Usage of rigid endoscopes with peppers, etc.
13:15 – 14:15 Lunch Break
14:15 – 15:30 3: Introduction to flexible endoscopy
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:00 Wet Lab – Boxes
17:00 – 18:15 4: Stridor and nasal disease
Evening Social Dinner

Thursday, 11 September 2025

09:00 – 10:45 5: Tracheobronchoscopy
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:30 6: Rhinoscopy
12:30 – 12:40 Bio Break
12:40 – 13:55 7: Pharyngoscopy, Laryngoscopy
13:55 – 14:55 Lunch Break
14:55 – 16:10 Wet Lab – Lungs (Cadavers)
16:10 – 16:40 Coffee Break
16:40 – 18:10 Wet Lab – Rhinoscopy and trephanation (Cadavers)

Friday, 12 September 2025

09:00 – 10:30 8: Dysuria, hematuria and urinary incontinence
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 Wet Lab – Boxes with foreign bodies
12:30 – 13:30 9: Cystoscopy I
13:30 – 14:30 Lunch Break
14:30 – 15:30 9: Cystoscopy II
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:15 Wet Lab – Bladder (Ex-Vivo, Cadavers)
17:15 – 18:15 10: Regurgitation & vomiting

Saturday, 13 September 2025

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:00 12: GI-Endoscopy / Oesophagus
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch Break
13:00 – 14:45 13: Gastroduodenoscopy
14:45 – 15:15 Coffee Break
15:15 – 16:30 Wet Lab – Gastroscopy
16:30 – 17:30 14: Large bowel problems
17:30 – 17:50 15: Colonoscopy
17:50 – 18:20 ESAVS Certificate and Master program, CASUS

Sunday, 14 September 2025

09:00 – 10:00 16: Cleaning and maintenance
10:00 – 10:15 Course evaluation and questions
10:15 – 10:35 Coffee Break
10:35 – 14:05 Wet lab cadavers and boxes