46th ESPEN Congress on Clinical Nutrition & Metabolism. Milan, Italy. 7-10 September 2024

LLL Courses

What are the LLL Courses?

The ESPEN Leonardo da Vinci Lifelong Learning Project is an ESPEN – EU global effort to improve daily practice in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism and develop quality care in nutrition by means of an innovative educational initiative.

 

What are the main objectives?

To improve knowledge, competence and skills of health professionals and students in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism while providing CME credits and European certification for medical doctors. The courses are open not only for medical doctors. Pharmacists, dieticians, and nurses can attend.

 

The duration of each course is 4 hours

Paying courses to be reserved upon registration to the Congress (cf. online registration form) and are open for all nutritional care givers (medical doctors, pharmacists, dietitians, and nurses).

 

Overview

Overview of all the modules proposed. You can attend a maximum of 8 modules as some of the modules are running in parallel.

Important information

The LLL Live Courses (4 hours each) are linked with the Educational Programme and are open to all the Congress participants. However, participants wishing to take the LLL case discussions and do the test that follows the corresponding educational session must register specifically to the latter.

Friday 6 September 2024

Morning LLL sessions / 09:00 – 13:00

Session 1: Screening, diagnosis and assessment of malnutrition
Session 2: Nutritional support in neurological diseases
Session 3: Nutritional support in renal diseases
Session 4: Nutritional support in pulmonary diseases
Session 5: Approach to parenteral nutrition

Afternoon LLL sessions / 14:00 – 18:00

Session 6: Nutrition in liver and pancreatic diseases
Session 7: Nutrition in metabolic syndrome
Session 8: Chronic intestinal failure and home parenteral nutrition in adults
Session 9: Nutrition support in obesity
Session 10: Nutrition in pediatric patients I

Morning LLL sessions / 08:00 – 12:00

Session 11: Nutritional support in Gl diseases
Session 12: Nutritional support in the older adults
Session 13: Nutritional support in diabetes and dyslipidemia
Session 14: Nutrition and prevention of diseases
Session 15: Approach to oral and enteral nutrition

Morning

08:00 – 10:00 LLL Live Course 1 – Nutrition in cancer: focus on tumor types
10:30 – 12:30 LLL Case Discussion and Test will be provided in a special room for those registered to this topic 

Afternoon

13:30 – 15:30 LLL Live Course 2 – Clinical sports nutrition “in sport-related health problems”
16:00 – 18:00 LLL Case Discussion and Test will be provided in a special room for those registered to this topic 

Morning

08:00 – 10:00 LLL Live Course 3 – Nutritional support in intensive care patients
08:30 – 12:30 Teach The Teacher Course for LLL programme
10:30 – 12:30 LLL Case Discussion and Test will be provided in a special room for those registered to this topic 

Afternoon

13:00 – 17:00 Final LLL examination for the ESPEN EUROPEAN DIPLOMA IN CLINICAL NUTRITION AND METABOLISM
13:30 – 15:30 LLL Live Course 4 – Nutritional support in the perioperative period
16:00 – 18:00 LLL Case Discussion and Test will be provided in a special room for those registered to this topic 

LLL Courses Registration Fees*
ESPEN MEMBER ESPEN NON-MEMBER
1 module:    EUR 50 1 module:    EUR 105
From 2 modules: 10% discount From 2 modules: 10% discount

*Registration to the Congress is mandatory to attend the LLL courses. 

NOTE!
All the LLL courses will take place at the MICO Milan Convention Centre. To register to any of the LLL courses, you need to be fully registered to the 46th ESPEN Congress.

The LLL case discussion and tests will take place after the session at the congress centre and participants must be registered to the corresponding LLL Courses. The corresponding vouchers will be provided together with the name badge.

Maximum 50 participants for each LLL Course & Tests (registration on a “first come, first served” basis).

LLL Final Exam

This is to inform our LLL participants that the next Final Examination for the ESPEN EUROPEAN DIPLOMA IN CLINICAL NUTRITION AND METABOLISM will be conducted at the 46th Congress of ESPEN.

The ESPEN LLL program in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism has become one of the most challenging educational projects and initiatives in Continuing Medical Education. Around 60 000 users were registered to the LLL program online, and more than 85 000 have participated in more live courses in the last 18 years.

The first LLL diplomas were awarded at the 2010 Congress in Nice after the first Final Exam. Join the enthusiastic group of ESPEN EU Diploma holders in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism in Vienna. Become a proud holder of the ESPEN Diploma!

Please observe the pre-requisites to take the final Exam before applying.

Further information on the Final Exam, the pre-requisites and the application process is available here.

T-LLL

Teach the Teachers for Life Long Learning (T-LLL) programme initiated by ESPEN is a recent educational project which is already a success by qualifying new teachers to spread the knowledge and education in nutritional care. Furthermore, the growing interest into the T-LLL is related to its training healthcare professionals using the latest innovative educational concepts.

The T-LLL course is scheduled during the annual ESPEN Congress on 9 September 2024 from 08:30- 12:30.

To register for participation to the T-LLL course, applicants should comply with the following prerequisites and submit the following documents:

  • Being 30 years old or more
  • Being an ESPEN member for the current year
  • Being a member of a national PEN society, which is block member and council member of ESPEN
  • To complete three LLL live courses (12 CREDITS) and three LLL topics online (8 CREDITS)

Click on the link below for further information on the Teach the Teachers for Life Long Learning (T-LLL) and to download the application form for the T–LLL Course: https://lllnutrition.com/mod/page/view.php?id=4607

 

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