📘 Step 1 — Curriculum Coverage
This section outlines integrated curriculum components covered in this topic.
🔹 Anatomy
- Formation of circle of Willis
🔹 Community Medicine
- Risk factors for development of cerebrovascular diseases
• Strategies to prevent cerebrovascular diseases
🩺 General Medicine
- Difference between hemorrhagic stroke and ischemic stroke
• Etiology of stroke
• Clinical features of stroke
• Investigations of stroke
• Prevention of stroke
Clinical correlation
- Hemiplegia as a clinical presentation of corticospinal tract or cortical motor pathway lesion
• Stroke as an important cause of acute hemiplegia
• Correlation of vascular territory with motor deficit
