📘 Step 1 — Curriculum Coverage

This topic uses the AIM Learning Cycle to help MBBS students understand fetal circulation, postnatal circulatory adaptation and congenital heart diseases by integrating Embryology, Anatomy, Physiology and Clinical Correlation.

🔹 Embryology

• Describe fetal circulation and the physiological circulatory changes after birth including closure of fetal shunts
• Enlist the developmental anomalies of heart
• Describe the congenital anomalies of the heart:
• ASD
• VSD
• PDA
• Tetralogy of Fallot
• Transposition of the great vessels
• Hemangiomas
• Telangiectasia

🔹 Physiology

• Correlate postnatal circulatory changes with normal cardiovascular adaptation after birth

🩺 Clinical Importance

• Correlate congenital cardiac defects with cyanosis, breathlessness and circulatory abnormalities