This topic uses the AIM Learning Cycle to help MBBS students understand pathological and clinical disorders affecting liver and biliary system.
1. Curriculum Coverage
Pathology
• Viruses causing acute hepatitis
• Viruses causing chronic hepatitis
• Pathogenesis of liver cirrhosis
• Stages of liver cirrhosis
• Clinical presentation of liver cirrhosis
Pharmacology
• Drug detoxification in liver
• Hepatic drug metabolism
• First-pass metabolism
• Hepatotoxic drugs
• Toxic effects of hepatotoxic drugs
Forensic Medicine
• Hepatotoxic poisons
• Toxicological sampling for poisoning
. Diagnosis of poisoning through routine toxicological sampling
Community Medicine
• Epidemiology of Hepatitis B
• Epidemiology of Hepatitis C
• Control measures of Hepatitis B and C
• Hepatitis A
• Hepatitis E
• Control of water-borne hepatitis
Medicine
• Etiology of liver cirrhosis
• Clinical features of liver cirrhosis
• Complications of liver cirrhosis
• Treatment of liver cirrhosis
Surgery
• Etiology of obstructive jaundice
• Clinical features of obstructive jaundice
• Biochemical investigations of obstructive jaundice
• Treatment of obstructive jaundice