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Renal & Urinary System Module — 4th Year MBBS

📘 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.
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