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Purpose: Audio-Digest Foundation CME/CE activities are designed to provide its learners – physicians and other healthcare professionals – with continuing education that will help identify clinical problems in their practice settings, provide content to help to solve those problems, and increase their application of knowledge to practice.

Audio-Digest Gastroenterology is specifically designed to provide the participant with state-of-the-art information, including, but not limited to, procedures and techniques and/or the diagnosis and management of:

Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Gastroesophageal reflux disease

Ulcer disease

Liver disease

Pancreatic disease

Cancer within the digestive system

Endoscopy

Esophageal disease

Colon problems

Transplantation

Nutrition

The goal of this program is to improve the management of constipation and diarrhea. After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:

1: Employ the Rome III criteria for diagnosis of chronic constipation.

2: Describe and utilize the treatment options for chronic constipation.

3: Describe and utilize the treatment options for chronic diarrhea.

4: Review the commonly used drugs that can causediarrhea.

5: Discuss the infectious and noninfectious causes of diarrhea.