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 the anatomical organization, development and functional role of salivary glands by integrating Anatomy, Embryology, Physiology and Biochemistry.

🔹 Anatomy

• Gross anatomy of parotid gland
• Gross anatomy of submandibular gland
• Gross anatomy of sublingual gland

🔹 Embryology

Development of salivary glands.

🔹 Physiology

• Secretion of saliva
• Nervous regulation of salivary secretion
• Stimuli increasing salivary secretion
• Plasma and saliva electrolyte composition at different secretion rates
• Function of salivary mucus
• Role of saliva in oral hygiene
• Role of saliva in elimination of heavy metals

. Digestion by salivary amylase (ptyalin)

🔹 Biochemistry

• Composition of salivary secretions
• Formation of salivary secretions
• Functions of saliva

 
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