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 biochemical and physiological processes of digestion and nutrition.

 

🔹 Biochemistry + Physiology

 

  1. Pancreatic Secretions & Digestive Mechanisms
  • Composition of pancreatic secretions
  • Mechanism of pancreatic enzyme secretion
  • Mechanism of synthesis of bicarbonates
  1. Digestion of Nutrients
  • Digestion of fats
  • Digestion of proteins
  • Digestion of carbohydrates
  1. Absorption of Nutrients
  • Absorption of fats
  • Absorption of proteins
  • Absorption of carbohydrates
  1. Absorption of Vitamins & Minerals
  • Absorption of Iron
  • Absorption of Vitamin B12
  • Absorption of Folate
  1. Energy Metabolism & Nutritional Requirements
  • Daily energy requirement
  • Basal metabolic rate (BMR)
  • Causes of high and low BMR
  • Daily requirement of vitamins
  • Mineral requirements
  1. Nutritional Disorders & Metabolic Homeostasis
  • Protein-energy malnutrition
  • Adipose tissue homeostasis

 

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