Orthopedics topics for USMLE Step 2 CK
Orthopedics topics for USMLE Step 2 CK
Diseases of the Musculoskeletal System and Connective Tissue
Health and Health Maintenance
- Epidemiology, impact, and prevention of degenerative joint and disc disease
- Prevention of disability due to musculoskeletal disorders or infection (eg, osteomyelitis; septic arthritis; Lyme disease; gonococcal tenosynovitis)
Mechanisms of Disease
- Infections
- Nerve compressions and degenerative, metabolic, and nutritional disorders
- Inherited, congenital, or developmental disorders
- Inflammatory or immunologic disorders
Diagnosis
- Infections (eg, osteomyelitis; septic arthritis; Lyme disease; gonococcal tenosynovitis)
- Degenerative, metabolic, and nutritional disorders (eg, degenerative joint disease; degenerative disc disease; gout; rickets)
- Inherited, congenital, or developmental disorders (eg, congenital hip dysplasia; phocomelia; osteochondritis; slipped capital femoral epiphysis; scoliosis; syringomyelia, dislocated hip in infantile spinal muscular atrophy)
- Inflammatory, immunologic, and other disorders (eg, polymyalgia rheumatica; lupus arthritis; polymyositis-dermatomyositis; rheumatoid arthritis; ankylosing spondylitis; bursitis; tendinitis; myofascial pain; fibromyalgia; shoulder-hand syndrome; Dupuytren contracture; Paget disease)
- Neoplasms (eg, osteosarcoma; metastases to bone; pulmonary osteoarthropathy)
- Traumatic injury and nerve compression and injury (eg, fractures, sprains, dislocations, carpal tunnel syndrome; cauda equina syndrome, low back pain)
Principles of Management
(With emphasis on topics covered in Diagnosis)
- Pharmacotherapy only
- Management decision (treatment/diagnosis steps)
- Treatment only
source: usmle.org
Categorised as: Orthopedics 2