📘 Step 1. Curriculum Coverage
💊 Pharmacology
- Classification of sedative–hypnotics.
- Benzodiazepines: classification, pharmacokinetics, mechanism, pharmacological effects and clinical uses.
- Benzodiazepine adverse effects, tolerance, dependence and drug interactions.
- Flumazenil as benzodiazepine antagonist.
- Barbiturates: classification, mechanism and clinical uses.
- Barbiturates versus benzodiazepines: mechanistic differences.
- Buspirone: mechanism, clinical use, merits and limitations versus benzodiazepines.
- Ramelteon: mechanism and clinical use.
🧠 Psychiatry
- Classification and major types of sleep disorders.
- Pharmacological and non-pharmacological management of sleep disorders.
- Healthy sleep and sleep-hygiene principles.
- Non-organic insomnia: definition and management.
- Sleep–wake cycle disorders: concept and management.
- Sleepwalking and its treatment.
