Course curriculum

  • 1

    Module 1: Section A: General Approach to the patient

    • 1. Common symptoms and signs and their differential diagnosis

    • Fever

    • Typhoid

    • Lower Extremity Oedema

    • Fatigue and Generalised Weakness

    • Lymphadenopathy

    • Involuntary Weight Loss

    • Pain - Acute and Chronic

    • Chest Pain

    • Abdominal Pain

    • Jaundice

    • Cough and Dyspnoea

    • Headache

    • Headache
  • 2

    2. Clinical Approach

    • History Taking

    • Physical Examination Techniques , Differential Diagnosis , Patient management and follow Up, Clinical decision making skills, Diagnostic reasoning

  • 3

    Section B : Infectious and Tropical Diseases

    • Adult Immunisation

    • Viral Infections : Herpes , Chicken pox, Herpes Zoster, HIV and AIDS

    • Emerging Infectious Diseases : COVID

    • Common Tropical Infections encountered in practice: Dengue , Enteric Fever , Malaria

    • Dengue

    • Malaria

    • Common Fungal Infection: Aspergillosis

    • Antimicrobial Stewardship

  • 4

    Section C : Emergency and Critical Care

    • Management Of Shock

    • Acute Coronary Syndromes (ACS)

    • Pulmonary Thromboembolism

    • Non Invasive Ventilator

    • Management of Sepsis and Multiple organ dysfunction

    • Cardiogenic Shock

    • Acute Poisoning and Overdose