It delves into the different services of Pediatric Surgery, through the experience of leading surgeons and experts in the field"

The intense health care activity to which specialists in the area of Pediatric Surgery are subjected makes it extremely complex to keep up to date with all the documentation and new advances that arise. These, precisely, are not few, since in recent years both therapeutics and diagnostic and surgical techniques have advanced at a particularly accelerated pace.

So much so that minimally invasive surgery is the order of the day. Whether due to developments in visualization technology, such as fluorescence in certain processes or to the increasingly prominent presence of robotic devices and laparoscopic techniques, the fact is that these advances have led to a better prognosis and evolution in treatments in practically all areas.

This entails a preferential field of action for the specialist, who, despite the difficulties, must follow a continuous updating process. The TECH Technological University program solves precisely the biggest problem when taking on this task, as it is offered in a completely online format, giving the specialist the necessary freedom to take it on at his own pace.

All the contents available in this master's degree are created by an extensive teaching staff of renowned reference in the surgical field. Therefore, the specialist will have access to detailed videos, analysis of real cases and more multimedia resources based on the most rigorous clinical practice. Throughout the entire syllabus, fields such as general digestive surgery, urological surgery, airway surgery, thoracic surgery, head and neck surgery, maxillofacial surgery, plastic surgery or oncological surgery, among many other branches of maximum interest, will be examined.

The absence of on-site classes and fixed schedules allows the specialist to distribute the study time according to his or her own interests. This makes this program in Pediatric Surgery a perfect academic option to get up to date in the field, relying on an exceptional teaching staff and the most effective teaching methodology.

Get updated on cutting-edge techniques such as Exit surgery, robotic surgery and laparoscopic procedures in children"

This professional master’s degree in Pediatric Surgery contains the most complete and up-to-date scientific program on the market. The most important features include:

• The development of practical cases presented by experts in Pediatric Surgery
• The graphic, schematic, and practical contents with which they are created, provide scientific and practical information on the disciplines that are essential for professional practice
• Practical exercises where self-assessment can be used to improve learning
• Its special emphasis on innovative methodologies
• Theoretical lessons, questions to the expert, debate forums on controversial topics, and individual reflection assignments
• Content that is accessible from any fixed or portable device with an Internet connection

Get up to date in the current state of transplants and the most advanced fetal surgery, with a vast agenda that covers a multitude of current pathologies"

The program includes in its teaching staff professionals of the field who pour into this training the experience of their work, in addition to recognized specialists from reference societies and prestigious universities.

Its multimedia content, developed with the latest educational technology, will allow the professional a situated and contextual learning, that is, a simulated environment that will provide an immersive training programmed to train in real situations.

The design of this program focuses on Problem-Based Learning, in which the professional will have to try to solve the different professional practice situations that will arise throughout the academic course. For this purpose, the student will be assisted by an innovative interactive video system created by renowned experts.

Access a multimedia library where you will review real cases and practical approaches to a multitude of pediatric surgical pathologies"

Distribute the course load at your own pace, downloading all the content from any device with internet connection"

Paying special attention to the need for continuous updating of the specialist, this professional master’s degree has been designed to delve into the most rigorous scientific and research experience related to Pediatric Surgery. After graduating, students will have reviewed the topics of greatest current impact in the area, gaining a scientific perspective, both theoretical and practical, on the latest developments in this vast field.

You will meet your most demanding update objectives thanks to a syllabus specially focused on practice and new surgical developments"

General Objectives

• Develop specialized knowledge and current treatments in pediatric surgery
• Compile the different diagnostic methods, as well as the different therapeutic options, both medical and surgical depending on the pathology
• Expose the possible associated complications and the prognosis of these  diseases
• Establish the current treatment guidelines for each of the pathologies described

Specific Objectives

Module 1. Pediatric Surgery Surgical Patient Management Trauma. Robotics in Pediatric Surgery

• Generate knowledge in health care bioethics
• Analyze the most recent advances in laparoscopic and robotic surgery
• Determine the pre and post-operative nutritional management of the surgical patient
• Acquire the necessary knowledge to establish the different modes of special, enteral, parenteral and other feeding routes
• Establish the concept of bioethics Establishment of therapeutic effort limitation and palliative care
• Review the latest updates in laparoscopic surgery and share initial experiences in the introduction of robotic surgery applied to pediatric surgery, as well as in the fields that it applies

Module 2. General and Digestive Pediatric Surgery I

• Examine the new techniques and tests available for motility and functional disorders diagnosis
• Deepen in esophageal functional tests, especially the less common ones such as impedanciometry and esophageal manometry
• Analyze the treatments with the best results in esophageal replacement
• Determine the most frequent pathologies with current diagnostic and therapeutic techniques

Module 3. General and Digestive Pediatric Surgery II

• Determine the main digestive and hepatic pathologies that may present in pediatrics, including inflammatory bowel disease, short bowel syndrome and intestinal transplantation, coloproctology as well as hepatobiliary diseases and liver transplantation
• Acquire specialized knowledge about IBD and development of the various therapeutic options that can be applied
• Determine the different causes that can lead to intestinal failure Short bowel syndrome management in all its stages
• Establish patient management with anorectal malformations or Hirschsprung's disease
• Analyze the functional tests used in coloproctology, with special emphasis on anorectal manometry and its different indications
• Examine the most common hepatobiliopancreatic pathology

Module 4. Fetal and Neonatal Pediatric Surgery

• Develop the concept of fetal medicine and to point out the necessary participation of the pediatric surgeon in the diagnosis and treatment of malformative pathology during the fetal period
• Analyze the normal embryological development and know the alterations that condition the main neonatal congenital malformations
• Examine the surgical pathologies acquired in the neonatal period and to know their differential diagnosis
• Analyze the evolutionary and prognostic advice of the main perinatal congenital pathologies for the parents of the affected fetus
• Propose a guide of material and human resources for surgical procedures in neonatal intensive care units
• Review the main international consensus guidelines on perinatal management pathology follow-up treated in the neonatal period, mainly esophageal atresia, congenital diaphragmatic hernia and anorectal malformation
• Establish the current clinical, analytical and radiological criteria for the evaluation of infectious intestinal processes acquired in the neonatal period
• Establish the current protocols for the management and treatment of short bowel syndrome as a sequel of neonatal surgical pathologies

Module 5. Pediatric Head and Neck Surgery

• Analyze the normal embryological development and its alterations that condition congenital malformations of the face, neck and its structures
• Examine the most frequent congenital pathologies, their anatomy and pathological implications
• In a systematic way, present the cleft lip and palate treatment and malformation syndrome of facial structures fusion
• Analyze tumor pathologies that occur at the facial and tumor level
• Determine the treatment of infectious pathologies of the region
• Establish the guidelines for the treatment of malformations secondary to alterations in the development of the branchial arches
• Point out the treatments of the pathologies of the glands of the oral and cervical region
• Systematize the approach to the pathologies of the cervical lymph nodes
• Put in order the alterations of the airway and their treatment
• Train the pediatric surgeon in the diagnosis and treatment of the pathologies of the cervico-facial region

Module 6. Pediatric Surgery Airway and Thorax

• Determine the most frequent congenital and acquired pathologies and to know their differential diagnosis
• Establish the current therapeutic possibilities of chest wall malformations management
• Establish the current guidelines of airway pathology management in pediatric patients
• Acquire skills in congenital bronchopulmonary malformations management
• Address the appropriate therapeutic management of acquired pleuropulmonary pathology
• Examine the appropriate management of thoracic malformations within the wide range of surgical and conservative techniques currently available
• Evaluate the advances, experience, results and prognosis of the different treatments available in airway pathology
• Develop an adequate management in the prenatal and postnatal treatment of bronchopulmonary malformations with appropriate prenatal counseling
• Determine the thoracoscopic approach and the specific surgical techniques for each of the infant pathologies that benefit from this technique
• Generate skills in the use of endoscopy, bronchoscopy and laryngoscopy techniques, which provide indispensable information for the diagnosis and treatment of respiratory diseases in childhood

Module 7. Pediatric Urology I. Upper Urinary Tract. Pathology and Surgical Techniques

• Determine the management of pathologies in pediatric urology (theoretical-practical) through the approach in the diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of the patient in the prenatal and postnatal period
• Analyze the knowledge and management of the different surgical techniques (endoscopic, laparoscopic and percutaneous) for the care of patients with pediatric urological pathology
• Determine the most frequent congenital kidney pathologies
• Differentiate between obstructive and reflux pathology
• Generate knowledge in renal surgery
• Examine percutaneous, pneumovesicoscopic and retroperitoneoscopic renal surgery
• Evaluate the different methods of percutaneous approach access in the pediatric patient
• Develop the different types of lithotripsy used in renal lithiasis

Module 8. Pediatric Urology II. Lower Urinary Tract Pathology

• Determine pediatric urology pathologies management (theoretical-practical) through the approach in the diagnosis, treatment and patient follow-up in the prenatal and postnatal period
• Develop the pediatric neuropathic bladder
• Differentiate diagnostic and therapeutic techniques used to resolve congenital and acquired pathologies
• Examine the current status of pediatric neuropathic bladder
• Analyze the pathophysiology of the pathology
• Determine the bladder exstrophy and epispadias management
• Present the genital pathology of the child

Module 9. Pediatric Plastic Surgery

• Develop congenital soft tissue pathology, its embryonic development and its implications in children and adolescents and acquired soft tissue pathology, its epidemiology and its implications in children and adolescents
• Substantiate and classify vascular anomalies updating treatment protocols
• Determine the comprehensive management of the pediatric burn patient, peculiarities according to age and burn type 
• Classify pinna anomalies and their therapeutic options 
• Assess the different ways of approaching wound closure and skin and soft tissue defects
• Learn to diagnose and set the basis for infrequent acquired lesion treatment in children and adolescents

Module 10. Pediatric Oncological Surgery

• Generate specialized knowledge on the most frequent solid neoplasms in pediatrics
• Determine the appropriate diagnostic approach to the different pediatric neoplasms
• Establish appropriate treatment strategies for each of these tumors
• Evaluate the main causes of surgical emergencies in pediatric oncology and clarify the surgical indications in these cases
• Substantiate the basic principles in pediatric oncology
• Analyze the tumor pathologies that occur in the pediatric age group
• Update staging and treatment protocols
• Systematize the surgical approach to tumor pathologies in pediatric age
• Generate specialized knowledge on the main biopsy techniques in the pediatric oncology patient
• Familiarize the pediatric surgeon with the diagnosis and surgical treatment of the main pediatric tumors
• Carry out an update on fertility preservation techniques in the pediatric oncologic patient

You will address relevant issues such as nutrition, fluid management or bioethics with a modern and innovative perspective"