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🧠 Theme I — Aching Bones
📘 Topic 1 — Musculoskeletal Foundations, Metabolic Bone Diseases and Bone-Mineral Homeostasis
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📘Step 1. Curriculum Coverage
📖 Step 2 — Problem-Based Integrated Learning Material
🧪Step 3 — Pre-Assessment, Diagnosis & Guided Reasoning
🧩Step 4 — Concept Integration
📝Step 5 — KMU Past Papers & Exam Learning
🎯Step 6 Post-Test Evaluation
🧠Step 7 Student Memory Support
📘 Topic 2 — Fractures, Bone Healing, Osteonecrosis and Open-Fracture Assessment
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📘Step 1. Curriculum Coverage
📖 Step 2 — Problem-Based Integrated Learning Material
🧪Step 3 — Pre-Assessment, Diagnosis & Guided Reasoning
🧩Step 4 — Concept Integration
📝Step 5 — KMU Past Papers & Exam Learning
🎯Step 6 Post-Test Evaluation
🧠Step 7 Student Memory Support
📘 Topic 3 — Osteomyelitis and Bone Infection
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📖 Step 2 — Problem-Based Integrated Learning Material
🧪Step 3 — Pre-Assessment, Diagnosis & Guided Reasoning
🧩Step 4 — Concept Integration
📝Step 5 — KMU Past Papers & Exam Learning
🎯Step 6 Post-Test Evaluation
🧠Step 7 Student Memory Support
📘 Topic 4 — Bone and Cartilage Tumours and Tumour-Like Lesions
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📖 Step 2 — Problem-Based Integrated Learning Material
🧪Step 3 — Pre-Assessment, Diagnosis & Guided Reasoning
🧩Step 4 — Concept Integration
📝Step 5 — KMU Past Papers & Exam Learning
🎯Step 6 Post-Test Evaluation
🧠Step 7 Student Memory Support
📘 Topic 5 — Mechanical Wounds, Medicolegal Assessment and Battered Baby Syndrome
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📘Step 1. Curriculum Coverage
📖 Step 2 — Problem-Based Integrated Learning Material
🧪Step 3 — Pre-Assessment, Diagnosis & Guided Reasoning
🧩Step 4 — Concept Integration
📝Step 5 — KMU Past Papers & Exam Learning
🎯Step 6 Post-Test Evaluation
🧠Step 7 Student Memory Support
🧠 Theme II — Joint Stiffness
📘 Topic 6 — Osteoarthritis, Rheumatoid Arthritis and Rheumatoid Pharmacotherapy
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📘Step 1. Curriculum Coverage
📖 Step 2 — Problem-Based Integrated Learning Material
🧪Step 3 — Pre-Assessment, Diagnosis & Guided Reasoning
🧩Step 4 — Concept Integration
📝Step 5 — KMU Past Papers & Exam Learning
🎯Step 6 Post-Test Evaluation
🧠Step 7 Student Memory Support
📘 Topic 7 — Seronegative Spondyloarthropathies and Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis
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📘Step 1. Curriculum Coverage
📖 Step 2 — Problem-Based Integrated Learning Material
🧪Step 3 — Pre-Assessment, Diagnosis & Guided Reasoning
🧩Step 4 — Concept Integration
📝Step 5 — KMU Past Papers & Exam Learning
🎯Step 6 Post-Test Evaluation
🧠Step 7 Student Memory Support
📘 Topic 8 — Crystal-Induced Arthritis and Pharmacotherapy of Gout
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📘Step 1. Curriculum Coverage
📖 Step 2 — Problem-Based Integrated Learning Material
🧪Step 3 — Pre-Assessment, Diagnosis & Guided Reasoning
🧩Step 4 — Concept Integration
📝Step 5 — KMU Past Papers & Exam Learning
🎯Step 6 Post-Test Evaluation
🧠Step 7 Student Memory Support
📘Topic 9 — Infectious Arthritis, Rheumatic Fever and Bone–Joint Infections
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📘Step 1. Curriculum Coverage
📖 Step 2 — Problem-Based Integrated Learning Material
🧪Step 3 — Pre-Assessment, Diagnosis & Guided Reasoning
🧩Step 4 — Concept Integration
📝Step 5 — KMU Past Papers & Exam Learning
🎯Step 6 Post-Test Evaluation
🧠Step 7 Student Memory Support
📘Topic 10 — Wound Healing, Medicolegal Classification of Hurt and Injury Laws
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📖 Step 2 — Problem-Based Integrated Learning Material
🧪Step 3 — Pre-Assessment, Diagnosis & Guided Reasoning
🧩Step 4 — Concept Integration
📝Step 5 — KMU Past Papers & Exam Learning
🎯Step 6 Post-Test Evaluation
🧠Step 7 Student Memory Support
🧠 Theme III — Muscle Weakness and Trauma
📘 Topic 11 — Soft-Tissue and Muscle Tumours
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📘Step 1. Curriculum Coverage
📖 Step 2 — Problem-Based Integrated Learning Material
🧪Step 3 — Pre-Assessment, Diagnosis & Guided Reasoning
🧩Step 4 — Concept Integration
📝Step 5 — KMU Past Papers & Exam Learning
🎯Step 6 Post-Test Evaluation
🧠Step 7 Student Memory Support
📘 Topic 12 — Skeletal-Muscle Atrophy, Myopathies and Muscular Dystrophies
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📘Step 1. Curriculum Coverage
📖 Step 2 — Problem-Based Integrated Learning Material
🧪Step 3 — Pre-Assessment, Diagnosis & Guided Reasoning
🧩Step 4 — Concept Integration
📝Step 5 — KMU Past Papers & Exam Learning
🎯Step 6 Post-Test Evaluation
🧠Step 7 Student Memory Support
📘 Topic 13 — Skeletal-Muscle Relaxants and Neuromuscular Blockade
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📘Step 1. Curriculum Coverage
📖 Step 2 — Problem-Based Integrated Learning Material
🧪Step 3 — Pre-Assessment, Diagnosis & Guided Reasoning
🧩Step 4 — Concept Integration
📝Step 5 — KMU Past Papers & Exam Learning
🎯Step 6 Post-Test Evaluation
🧠Step 7 Student Memory Support
📘 Topic 14 — Transportation Trauma, Road-Traffic Injury Prevention and Spinal Injuries
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📘Step 1. Curriculum Coverage
📖 Step 2 — Problem-Based Integrated Learning Material
🧪Step 3 — Pre-Assessment, Diagnosis & Guided Reasoning
🧩Step 4 — Concept Integration
📝Step 5 — KMU Past Papers & Exam Learning
🎯Step 6 Post-Test Evaluation
🧠Step 7 Student Memory Support
📘 Topic 15 — Firearm, Explosive, Thermal and Electrical Injuries
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📘Step 1. Curriculum Coverage
📖 Step 2 — Problem-Based Integrated Learning Material
🧪Step 3 — Pre-Assessment, Diagnosis & Guided Reasoning
🧩Step 4 — Concept Integration
📝Step 5 — KMU Past Papers & Exam Learning
🎯Step 6 Post-Test Evaluation
🧠Step 7 Student Memory Support
🧠 Theme IV — Skin Rash and Itching
📘 Topic 16 — Cutaneous Lesions, Eczematous Dermatitis, Psoriasis and Immune-Mediated Dermatoses
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📘Step 1. Curriculum Coverage
📖 Step 2 — Problem-Based Integrated Learning Material
🧪Step 3 — Pre-Assessment, Diagnosis & Guided Reasoning
🧩Step 4 — Concept Integration
📝Step 5 — KMU Past Papers & Exam Learning
🎯Step 6 Post-Test Evaluation
🧠Step 7 Student Memory Support
📘 Topic 17 — Viral, Fungal, Bacterial and Parasitic Skin Infections
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📘Step 1. Curriculum Coverage
📖 Step 2 — Problem-Based Integrated Learning Material
🧪Step 3 — Pre-Assessment, Diagnosis & Guided Reasoning
🧩Step 4 — Concept Integration
📝Step 5 — KMU Past Papers & Exam Learning
🎯Step 6 Post-Test Evaluation
🧠Step 7 Student Memory Support
📘 Topic 18 — Premalignant Skin Lesions, Keratinocyte Carcinomas, Nevi and Malignant Melanoma
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📘Step 1. Curriculum Coverage
📖 Step 2 — Problem-Based Integrated Learning Material
🧪Step 3 — Pre-Assessment, Diagnosis & Guided Reasoning
🧩Step 4 — Concept Integration
📝Step 5 — KMU Past Papers & Exam Learning
🎯Step 6 Post-Test Evaluation
🧠Step 7 Student Memory Support
📘 Topic 19 — Pharmacotherapy of Inflammatory, Pruritic, Pigmentary and Appendageal Skin Disorders
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📘Step 1. Curriculum Coverage
📖 Step 2 — Problem-Based Integrated Learning Material
🧪Step 3 — Pre-Assessment, Diagnosis & Guided Reasoning
🧩Step 4 — Concept Integration
📝Step 5 — KMU Past Papers & Exam Learning
🎯Step 6 Post-Test Evaluation
🧠Step 7 Student Memory Support
Musculoskeletal System (MSK) Module — 3rd Year MBBS

📘Step 1. Curriculum Coverage

🔬 Pathology

🔹 Pathology — Skeletal-Muscle Atrophy and Myopathies

  • Describe the pathological features of skeletal-muscle atrophy.
  • Describe the pathological features of neurogenic and myopathic changes in skeletal muscle.
  • Describe the pathological features of:
    • Inflammatory myopathies
    • Dermatomyositis
    • Polymyositis
    • Inclusion-body myositis
    • Toxic myopathies

🔹 Pathology — Inherited Diseases of Skeletal Muscle

  • Describe the genetic abnormalities, morphology and clinical features of muscular dystrophies.

🌍 Community Medicine

Poliomyelitis, Disability and Rehabilitation

  • Define disability and describe its types and concepts.
  • Distinguish between impairment, disability and handicap.
  • Explain the significance of disability-adjusted life years and quality-adjusted life years.
  • Describe the epidemiology, determinants and distribution of poliomyelitis.
  • Describe the prevention and control of poliomyelitis.
  • Discuss rehabilitation of patients affected by poliomyelitis.

🩺 Medicine

Myopathies

  • Define myopathy.
  • Enlist hereditary and acquired myopathies.
  • Describe the etiology and clinical features of myopathies.
  • Plan investigations for patients presenting with myopathy.

👶 Pediatrics

Congenital and Hereditary Myopathies

  • Discuss common congenital and hereditary myopathies with reference to:
    • Genetics
    • Causation
    • Clinical presentation
    • Diagnosis

🔹 Pediatrics — Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

  • Describe Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
  • Discuss its clinical presentation and differential diagnosis.

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