📘Step 1. Curriculum Coverage
🔬 Pathology
Cellular Adaptation
- Describe the types of cellular adaptations.
- Differentiate between physiological and pathological adaptation.
- Define hypertrophy, hyperplasia, atrophy and metaplasia.
- Describe the causes and mechanisms of hypertrophy, hyperplasia, atrophy and metaplasia.
- Describe adaptive changes in clinical settings.
- Describe hypertrophy of smooth endoplasmic reticulum with examples and mitochondrial alterations.
- Describe cytoskeletal abnormalities in pathological states with examples.
Necrosis
- Define necrosis.
- Describe the types of necrosis with examples.
- Describe the mechanisms and morphology of necrosis.
Apoptosis
- Define apoptosis.
- Describe physiological and pathological causes of apoptosis with examples.
- Describe the morphological alterations associated with apoptosis.
- Describe the biochemical features of apoptosis.
- Describe the intrinsic and extrinsic pathways of apoptosis.
- Differentiate between necrosis and apoptosis.
- Describe the role of apoptosis in health and disease.
Cellular Ageing
- Describe the mechanisms and causes of cellular ageing.
- Explain genetic and environmental influences on cellular ageing.
Describe the structural and biochemical changes associated with cellular ageing.
