📘 Step 1. Curriculum Coverage

🩺 Medicine

• Diagnostic approach to suspected autoimmune disorders, including serological and immunological investigations.
• Classification and mechanisms of action of pharmacotherapies used in autoimmune disorders.
• Systemic lupus erythematosus: clinical features, diagnostic criteria, investigations, management, prognosis and complications, including differentiation from drug-induced lupus.
• Antiphospholipid syndrome: clinical features, investigations, management and complications and Prognosis of antiphospholipid syndrome.
• Systemic sclerosis and Sjögren syndrome: clinical features, investigations, management and complications.
• Polymyositis and dermatomyositis: clinical features, investigations, management and complications.

🩺 Nephrology

• Classification of renal pathological involvement in systemic lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune disorders.
• Renal complications and their management in systemic lupus erythematosus and rheumatoid arthritis.

👶 Pediatrics

– Clinical features, investigations, management, prognosis and complications of childhood systemic lupus erythematosus.