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 focuses on biochemical mediators involved in inflammation.

🔹 Biochemistry

 

  • Definition of eicosanoids
  • Classes of eicosanoids
  • Cyclo-oxygenase pathway
  • COX isomers
  • COX inhibition
  • Role of aspirin
  • NSAIDs adverse effects
  • Steroid adverse effects
  • Catabolism of prostanoids
  • Lipoxygenase pathway
  • Leukotriene synthesis
  • Leukotriene inhibition
  • Leukotriene receptor antagonist

 

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