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 intestinal physiology.

🔹 Physiology

 

Small Intestinal Motility

  • Types of movements of small intestine
  • Control of peristalsis
  • Nervous regulation
  • Hormonal regulation

Duodenal and Intestinal Secretions

  • Secretion of mucus by Brunner’s glands in the duodenum
  • Secretion from crypts of Lieberkühn

Pancreatic Enzymes

  • Pancreatic enzymes
  • Chemistry of pancreatic enzymes
  • Secretion
  • Functions
  • Regulation

Intestinal Digestive Enzymes

  • Intestinal digestive enzymes

Gastrointestinal Hormones

  • Gastrin
  • Secretin
  • Cholecystokinin (CCK)
  • Other GI hormones

Clinical Correlation

  • Abnormal digestion in pancreatic failure
  • Malabsorption in sprue

 
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