📘 Step 1 — Curriculum Coverage
This topic uses the AIM Learning Cycle to help MBBS students understand pathological and clinical disorders affecting liver and biliary system.
🔹 Pathology
- Viruses causing acute hepatitis
- Viruses causing chronic hepatitis
- Pathogenesis of liver cirrhosis
- Stages of liver cirrhosis
- Clinical presentation of liver cirrhosis
🔹 Pharmacology
- Drug detoxification in liver
- Hepatic drug metabolism
- First-pass metabolism
- Hepatotoxic drugs
- Toxic effects of hepatotoxic drugs
🔹 Forensic Medicine
- Hepatotoxic poisons
- Toxicological sampling for poisoning
- Diagnosis of poisoning through routine toxicological sampling
🔹 Community Medicine
- Epidemiology of Hepatitis B
- Epidemiology of Hepatitis C
- Control measures of Hepatitis B and C
- Hepatitis A
- Hepatitis E
- Control of water-borne hepatitis
🩺 Medicine
- Etiology of liver cirrhosis
- Clinical features of liver cirrhosis
- Complications of liver cirrhosis
- Treatment of liver cirrhosis
Surgery
- Etiology of obstructive jaundice
- Clinical features of obstructive jaundice
- Biochemical investigations of obstructive jaundice
- Treatment of obstructive jaundice
