Candidates should review gastrointestinal physiology, nutritional issues, disorders of gastrointestinal motility, clinical assessment, diagnostic approaches, and principles used to manage common motility and nutrition-related conditions.

Preparation should include gastrointestinal malignancies, inflammatory bowel disease, and disorders affecting the small intestine, with attention to clinical presentation, diagnosis, investigation, complications, and management principles.

Review diseases of the colon, acute and chronic gastrointestinal bleeding, oesophageal disorders, gastric disease, diagnostic evaluation, endoscopic assessment, and recognition of conditions requiring urgent treatment.

Focus on acute and chronic liver disease, abnormal liver tests, hepatitis, cirrhosis, portal hypertension, hepatic complications, and the evaluation and management of common hepatobiliary presentations.

Candidates should be prepared for additional gastroenterology topics that may not fit within the major organ-based categories, including integrated clinical problems, diagnostic reasoning, and broader gastrointestinal management considerations.

Review pancreatic and biliary disorders including pancreatitis, biliary obstruction, gallstone-related disease, pancreatic lesions, diagnostic investigations, and principles of endoscopic and medical management.

Understand safe clinical practice, medication and procedural risk reduction, appropriate patient identification, communication, infection prevention, documentation, and prevention of avoidable harm during gastroenterology care.

Review informed consent, confidentiality, patient autonomy, professional conduct, ethical clinical decisions, appropriate communication, accountability, and responsibilities when providing specialist gastrointestinal care.