This topic uses the AIM Learning Cycle to help MBBS students understand clinical and pharmacological aspects of intestinal disorders.
1. Curriculum Coverage
Pharmacology
• Anti-diarrheal drugs
• Mechanism of anti-diarrheal drugs
• Drugs used in constipation
• Mechanism of constipation drugs
Community Medicine
• Epidemiology of food-borne infections
• Control measures of food-borne infections
Paediatrics
• Etiology of acute gastroenteritis
• Clinical features of gastroenteritis
• Complications of gastroenteritis
• Treatment of gastroenteritis