The Osler Colorectal Surgery 2025 Subscription-Based Review

The Osler Institute utilized state-of-the-art equipment to record our Live Virtual February 2025 comprehensive Colorectal Surgery  Review Course and bring it to you! These Video files are stored “in the cloud,” so you can stream them anywhere, anytime, as long as you have an internet connection, watch or listen to them on your phone, computer, or tablet – your learning experience is almost like being at the live activity but without travel costs and time away from your practice. In addition, each online review is a downloadable copy of the syllabus corresponding to the Video lectures for your viewing or as a free-standing study or clinical practice guide.

The Colorectal Surgery Subscription-Based Review is designed to help you pass your exams and update your clinical knowledge base. Emphasis is on evidence-based medicine and board-relevant standards of care, current best practices concepts, testing and treatment approaches, and clinical follow-up strategies. As a result, the course provides the perfect review for your Colorectal Surgery exams and offers valuable insights and practical tips that you can immediately incorporate into your practice. Many of our previous learners found the review provided them with improved diagnostic and planning strategies, a better understanding of the best surgical approaches for the principal areas covered by colorectal surgeons, and helped them recognize areas of weakness for further study.

Release Date: April 12, 2025

Estimated Time to Complete: 9 hours

Objectives

After this review, each participant should be able to:

1. Describe preoperative, operative, and postoperative patient care in the principal component areas of colon and rectal surgery, specifically: benign and malignant conditions of the anus, colon, and rectum.
2. Summarize your understanding of the diagnosis and management of patients from all 24 Core Areas of colon and rectal surgery.
3. Demonstrate an understanding of the management of postoperative complications following colon and rectal surgical procedures.
4. Discuss nonoperative management options of patients, for patients with disorders of the colon, rectum, and anus, including management of patients with intestinal stomas and inflammatory diseases.
5. Demonstrate an understanding of colon, rectum, and anus tumors and describe the appropriate surgical and nonsurgical management required for each type of tumor and tumor stage.
6. Outline the appropriate use of newer diagnostic and therapeutic methods, including the pre-and peri-operative role of hereditary/genetic testing of colorectal diseases.

+ Topics:

• Endoscopy – Endoscopic Management of Polyps, Complications of Polypectomy, Poyposes (except Lynch and FAP), Screening Guidelines after Polypectomy
• Malignant Anorectal and STD – STDs AIN, Anal Condyloma, Anal SCC
• Treatment of CRC – Neoadjuvant Treatment Rectal Cancer, Time, Nerve Preservation, Watch and Wait Strategy, Stage IV Disease (liver Mets), Local Recurrence

• Miscellaneous –Anastomotic Complications, Pediatric CRS, Geriatric CRS
• IBD- Diagnosis and Evaluation, Medical Management, Surgery for Crohn’s Disease, Anorectal Crohn’s
• Diverticular Disease – Lower GI Bleeding, Large bowel obstruction, Colorectal Trauma, Foreign bodies
• Molecular Basic of CRC – Inherited Syndromes (Lynch, FAP), Staging of Colon Cancer, Staging of Rectal Cancer

• Molecular Basic of CRC – Inherited Syndromes (Lynch, FAP), Staging of Colon Cancer, Staging of Rectal Cancer
• Other Cancers/Conditions – GIST, Carcinoid, Lymphoma, Endometriosis, Adenosquamous Cancers

• Anatomy and Physiology, Benign Anorectal I – Pelvic Floor Testing, Anal Pain, Pilonidal Disease, Pruritus Any
• Benign Anorectal II – Hemorrhoids, Anal Fissure, Abscess, Fistula
• Pelvic Floor – Constipation, Incontinence, Prolapse, Functional Large Bowel disorders
• Management of Ulcerative Colitis – Indications for colectomy, IPAA, Complications of IPAA, Stomas, and Complications, Other colitides (C. Dif, microscopic, etc)