📘Step 1. Curriculum Coverage
🌍 Community Medicine
Airborne Bacterial Infections
- Describe the epidemiological determinants, frequency and distribution of diphtheria, pertussis and meningitis.
Dengue and Other Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers
- Explain the types, risk factors, complications and control measures of viral hemorrhagic fevers, including dengue fever.
Water- and Food-Borne Diseases
- Enumerate common water-borne diseases.
- Explain the epidemiology and preventive measures of cholera, typhoid, acute diarrhea and dysentery, polio, hepatitis A and E, food poisoning, amebiasis, giardiasis, brucellosis, leptospirosis and worm infestations.
Describe the current situation of these diseases in Pakistan and worldwide.
🩺 Family Medicine
TORCH Infections
- Define TORCH infection.
- Describe the steps of investigation for TORCH infections.
- Describe preventive strategies for TORCH infections and their complications.
