Provisional  MRCP part 1 & 2 Intensive Course Programme for the weekend

Session 1

Session 2

• Haemolysis

• Diagnostic tests in patients with haemolysis

• Intravascular and extravascular haemolysis, causes and mechanism

• MAHA

• Interpreting Coombs' tests

• TTP and HUS

• Splenic function

• Splenectomy and autosplenectomy

• PNH

• Post splenectomy prophylaxis

• Barrett's

• Oesophageal cancer

• GORD

• Factors involved in gastric acid secretion

• Urea breath test

• Lymphoma

• Overview of different lymphomas

• Ann Arbor Staging • Monoclonal antibody therapy in haematological disease

• Leukoerythroblastic blood film

• Mechanisms and causes of splenomegaly

• Multiple sclerosis

• Diagnosis, presentation, prognostic features and treatment of MS

• Optic neuritis

• Scleritis vs. Episcleritis

• RAPD

• Afferent and efferent pathways of pupillary control

• Nystagmus

• Trigeminal neuralgia

• Intranuclear ophthalmoplegia

• Leukaemia's

• Presentation of different leukaemias

• Prognostic features in leukaemia

• Chromosomal translocations

• The importance of acute promyelocytic leukaemia

• Treatment rationales in haematological malignancies

• Renal tubular acidosis

• Mechanism of RTA type I, II and IV

• Causes of RTA • Fanconi syndrome

• Proximal vs. distal tubular function

• Acid base balance and the kidney

• Cystinuria, Cystinosis and Homocystinuria

• Anion gap and causes of abnormalities

• Kidney stones