📘 Step 1. Curriculum Coverage
🩺 Medicine
- Classification of inflammatory arthritis by peripheral or axial involvement and pattern of joint involvement.
- Selection and interpretation of autoimmune markers and other investigations in rheumatological disorders.
- Extra-articular manifestations of inflammatory arthritis.
- Evaluation and management of adult symmetrical polyarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus.
- Structured history and physical examination of a patient with symmetrical arthritis.
- Counselling a patient with newly diagnosed rheumatoid arthritis.
🦴 Orthopedics
Indications for surgery in disabling rheumatoid arthritis, including rheumatic hand and foot disorders.
👶 Pediatrics
- Age-appropriate orthopedic evaluation of neonates and children.
- Evaluation and management of childhood symmetrical polyarthritis and juvenile idiopathic arthritis.
- History and physical examination of a child with arthritis.
- Counselling a child and parents following a new diagnosis of juvenile idiopathic arthritis.