📘 Step 1. Curriculum Coverage
🔬 Pathology
- Core terminology: azotemia, uremia, nephrotic syndrome, nephritic syndrome, asymptomatic hematuria, rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis, AKI, CKD, ESRD, renal tubular defects, nephrosclerosis, UTI, urolithiasis, hydronephrosis, oncocytoma and carcinoma.
- Normal ranges of blood urea, creatinine and electrolytes.
- Creatinine clearance and biochemical/radiological renal function tests and their clinical significance.
🩺 Medicine
- Interpretation of urinalysis and common urinary abnormalities.
- Diagnostic significance of urine abnormalities in renal, urogenital and systemic disease.
- Describe prevalence of renal diseases.
🔁 Basic Science Spiral Link
🧬 Anatomy
- Gross internal and external anatomy of the kidney.
- Renal hilum: structures entering and leaving the kidney and their relations.
- Lymphatic and vascular supply of the kidney.
- Applied gross anatomy of the ureters, urinary bladder and urethra.
- Microscopic structure of the prostate and urethra.
🫀 Physiology
- Glomerular filtration rate, determinants of GFR and estimation of GFR.
- Absorption of water and solutes along different parts of the nephron.
🧪 Biochemistry
- Mechanisms maintaining acid–base balance.
- Major acid–base disorders.
