📘 Step 1. Curriculum Coverage
🔬 Pathology
- Types of renal stones.
- Etiology and pathogenesis of urolithiasis.
- Association of renal stones with metabolic disorders.
- Differentiation of stone types according to frequency, predisposing factors, urine pH and morphology.
🔪 Surgery / Urology
- Risk factors for specific stone types.
- Evaluation of recurrent/at-risk stone formers.
- Clinical presentation and diagnosis of renal stones.
- Medical and procedural treatment options.
- Renal trauma: initial resuscitation, mechanism and grading.
- Clinical and radiological assessment of renal trauma.
- Management of renal trauma.
🩻 Radiology
- Plain X-ray KUB.
- CT in urological disease.
- Nuclear renal imaging.
- DTPA, DMSA and MAG-3 scans.
- Appropriate investigation of the renal system during pregnancy.
