This topic uses the AIM Learning Cycle to help MBBS students understand protective gastrointestinal reflexes and biochemical aspects of intestinal secretions.
1. Curriculum Coverage
Physiology
• Mechanism and causes of nausea
• Mechanism of vomiting
• Vomiting act
• Gastrointestinal obstruction
• Gases in gastrointestinal tract (flatus)
Biochemistry
• Composition of intestinal juices