📘 Step 1. Curriculum Coverage

🔬 Pathology / Parasitology

• Classification of parasites invading the small intestine.
• Entamoeba histolytica: life cycle, morphology, pathogenesis, clinical features and complications.
• Giardia lamblia: life cycle, morphology, pathogenesis, clinical features and complications.
• Hymenolepis nana: life cycle, morphology, pathogenesis, clinical features and complications.
• Diphyllobothrium latum: life cycle, morphology, pathogenesis, clinical features and complications.
• Trematodes: physical characteristics.
• Schistosoma: classification, routes of infection, life cycle, pathophysiology, clinical features and laboratory diagnosis.
• Comparison of Schistosoma eggs.
• Ascaris lumbricoides: life cycle, morphology, pathogenesis, clinical features and complications.
• Strongyloides: life cycle, morphology, pathogenesis, clinical features and complications.
• Ankylostoma duodenale: life cycle, morphology, pathogenesis, clinical features and complications.
• Enterobius vermicularis: life cycle, morphology, pathogenesis, clinical features and complications.

💊 Pharmacology

• Anti-amoebic drugs: classification.
• Metronidazole and diloxanide furoate: mechanisms, indications and adverse effects.
• Metronidazole–alcohol interaction.
• Anthelmintic drugs: classification.
• Albendazole, mebendazole, pyrantel pamoate, ivermectin, praziquantel and niclosamide: mechanisms, clinical uses, adverse effects and contraindications.

🌍 Community Medicine

• Common intestinal worm infestations in the local context.
• Epidemiological determinants.
• Preventive and control measures.