Course Content
🔵 THEME 1 — Painful Swallowing
Focuses on anatomy, physiology, and disorders related to swallowing, including oral cavity, salivary glands, esophagus, and neural regulation of deglutition.
🔵 THEME 2 — Pain Epigastrium
Focus: Structural, functional, and clinical basis of epigastric pain. Includes abdominal wall, peritoneum, stomach, pancreas, gastric secretion, and peptic ulcer disease.
🔵 Theme 3 — Jaundice
🔵 Theme 4 — Diarrhoea and Constipation
🔵 Theme 5 — Bleeding Per Rectum
🔵 Theme 6 — Glucose Control (Carbohydrate Metabolism)
🔵 Theme 7 — Obesity (Fat Metabolism)
Gastrointestinal System (GIT) — Year 2 MBBS

📘 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

 

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