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Objective
General Objectives
THEME 3: Inflammatory arthritis and systemic inflammation.

Curriculum Block

Part 4 / Medical Foundation 4 / Musculoskeletal Medicine
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Curriculum Block
Part 4 Medical Foundation 4 Musculoskeletal Medicine
Curriculum Week
Part 4
Discipline
Orthopedics Rheumatology
MCC Presentations
White Blood Cells, Abnormalities of Oligoarthralgia (Pain in One to Four Joints) Localized Edema Polyarthralgia (Pain in More Than Four Joints) Generalized Pain Disorders
McMaster Program Competencies
2.2 Apply biomedical scientific principles fundamental to health care for patients and populations.
MeSH
Inflammation [C23.550.470] Musculoskeletal System [A02] Autoimmune Diseases [C20.111]

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Child Objectives
  • Describe how the immune system is closely tied in with many disease entities affecting the musculoskeletal system. Central concepts include inflammation, the adaptive and innate immunities and Th1 and Th2 factors.
  • Identify that there are many triggers to inflammation and factors that mediate it.
  • Describe the scope and multi-system nature of many autoimmune musculoskeletal diseases.
  • Describe the clinical difference and approach to monoarthritis and polyarthritis.
  • Identify diagnostic tests and measurement tools classically used to evaluate inflammatory disease.
  • Review recent developments in immunotherapy.
  • Summarize the basics in immunity, inflammation and the concept of autoimmunity.
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