Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD): Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Personalized Management

Week 7: Group Presentation

Discussion Topic – GERD

Discussion Prompt:

Diagnostic topic (GERD) 

Directions:

• Give an overview of the patient with the presumptive diagnosis. You can “create” a patient case based on your knowledge of the diagnosis, based on a patient you have seen in your work or personal experience. 

(Writers Choice)

• Give an overview of the diagnosis including risk factors and how they cause or contribute to adaptation or pathogenesis. 
• Give an in-depth discussion of the pathophysiology of your diagnosis as it occurs over time;
  • include signs, 
  • symptoms, 
  • diagnostic studies, 
  • underlying pathophysiologic process causing these signs and symptoms. 
• Support this pathophysiology with high level Evidence. 
• Summarize treatments and outcomes in terms of pathophysiologic alterations. 

Once you have had an in-depth discussion of your diagnosis overall, be sure to connect your case discussion back to the patient you have presented. 

• Example: If your patient has HTN and DM, be sure to include a discussion of the symptoms that your patient is exhibiting and discuss treatments specifically aimed for your patient.

Support your case discussion with current (in the past 5 years) high level evidence. Patient information portals, disease association websites and other resources such as Up-to-date, Epocrates, Medscape, Mayo Clinic are not considered high levels of evidence and should be avoided for your presentations. 

Include some graphics to support your presentation and to make it more visually engaging

Expectations

• Length: 1 Title, 10 body slide, 1 reference slide
• Citations: Six high-level scholarly reference in APA from within the last 5 years