Respiratory System

1. Normal processes
2. Abnormal processes
3. Principles of therapeutics
4. Gender, ethnic, and behavioral considerations affecting disease treatment and prevention, including psychosocial, cultural, occupational, and environmental

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Musculoskeletal System

1. Normal processes
2. Abnormal processes
3. Principles of therapeutics
4. Gender, ethnic, and behavioral considerations affecting disease treatment and prevention, including psychosocial, cultural, occupational, and environmental

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Gender, ethnic, and behavioral considerations affecting disease treatment and prevention, including psychosocial, cultural, occupational, and environmental

Gender, ethnic, and behavioral considerations affecting disease treatment and prevention, including psychosocial, cultural, occupational, and environmental:

• emotional and behavioral factors
• influence on person, family, and society
• occupational and other environmental risk factors
• gender and ethnic factors

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Principles of therapeutics

Principles of therapeutics:

• mechanisms of action and use of drugs for treatment of disorders of the hematopoietic system
  • blood and blood products
  • treatment of anemia, drugs stimulating erythrocyte production
  • drugs stimulating leukocyte production
  • anticoagulants, thrombolytic drugs
  • antiplatelet drugs
  • antimicrobials and antiparasitics
  • antineoplastic and immunosuppressive drugs in the clinical context of disease
• other therapeutic modalities

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Abnormal processes

Abnormal processes:

• infectious, inflammatory, and immunologic disorders
  • infections of the blood, reticuloendothelial system, and endothelial cells
  • autoimmunity and autoimmune diseases
  • anemia of chronic disease
  • non-immunologically mediated transfusion complications, transplant rejection
• traumatic and mechanical injury
• neoplastic disorders (including lymphoma, leukemia, multiple myeloma, dysproteinemias, amyloidosis)
• metabolic and regulatory disorders, including acquired
  • nutritional anemias
  • cythemia
  • hemorrhagic and hemostatic disorders
  • bleeding secondary to platelet disorders and disorders of primary hemostasis
• vascular and endothelial disorders
• systemic disorders affecting the hematopoietic and lymphoreticular system
• idiopathic disorders
• degenerative disorders
• drug-induced adverse effects on the hematopoietic and lymphoreticular systems
• congenital and genetic disorders affecting the hematopoietic and lymphoreticular systems

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Normal processes

Normal processes:

• embryonic development, fetal maturation, and perinatal changes
• organ structure and function
• cell/tissue structure and function
  • production and function of erythrocytes, hemoglobin, O2 and CO2 transport, transport proteins
  • production and function of platelets
  • production and function of coagulation and fibrinolytic factors
• repair, regeneration, and changes associated with stage of life

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General Principles

• Biochemistry and molecular biology

• Biology of cells

• Human development and genetics

• Biology of tissue response to disease

• Gender, ethnic, and behavioral considerations affecting disease treatment and prevention, including psychosocial, cultural, occupational, and environmental

• Multisystem processes

• Pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic processes
  

• Microbial biology and infection

• Quantitative methods                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Source: http://www.usmleworldwide.com/blog/?p=189