📘 Step 1. Curriculum Coverage
🔬 Pathology
- Malabsorption syndrome: definition.
- Classification of diarrhea.
- Celiac disease: etiology, morphology, clinical features and complications.
💊 Pharmacology
- Antidiarrheal agents: definition, classification and mechanisms.
- Opioids, colloidal bismuth, kaolin, pectin and related agents.
- Laxatives: classification and mechanisms.
- Bulk-forming, stool-softening, osmotic and stimulant laxatives.
- Lactulose in hepatic encephalopathy.
👶 Pediatrics
- Lactase deficiency: clinical features, investigations, complications and management.
- Infectious diarrhea in children: etiology, clinical features, investigations, complications and management.
- Celiac disease: etiology, clinical features, investigations, complications and management.
