📘Step 1. Curriculum Coverage
🔬 Pathology
- Describe asthma and its pathogenesis.
- Differentiate between types of asthma.
- Describe morphology and clinical course of asthma.
💊 Pharmacology
- Classify the drugs used in the treatment of asthma.
- Describe the role of beta-2 agonists used in asthma.
- Describe the role of methylxanthine drugs used in asthma.
- Describe the role of antimuscarinic agents used in asthma.
- Describe the role of corticosteroids used in asthma.
- Describe the pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic aspects of mast-cell stabilizers used in asthma.
- Describe the pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic aspects of leukotriene antagonists used in asthma.
- Describe the pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic aspects of anti-IgE antibodies used in asthma.
- Describe drug treatment of acute and chronic asthma and status asthmaticus.
🌍 Community Medicine
- Describe the epidemiology and preventive measures of asthma.
- Define occupational asthma and describe its preventive measures.
🩺 Medicine
- Describe the epidemiology, pathophysiology, etiology and contributing factors related to the development of asthma.
- Describe the clinical presentation, diagnosis and treatment of asthma.
- Classify asthma on the basis of clinical presentation into mild, moderate, life-threatening and near-fatal asthma.
- Explain the stepwise pharmacologic approach for the treatment of asthma and status asthmaticus.
- Describe long-term asthma management including pharmacological, physical and occupational health education.
🩺 Family Medicine
- Discuss the risk factors for asthma in our population.
- Explain risk assessment for asthma.
- Interpret spirometry results.
- Discuss primary and secondary prevention of asthma in a primary health setting.
- Identify the guidelines that should be followed in a patient with asthma.
- Identify red flags in a patient that need referral for specialist care.