USMLE provides an outline of the USMLE Step 1 Content. The outline breaks down the exam into systems. This page will review the pregnancy, childbirth, and puerperium section of the USMLE Step 1 outline as it relates to pharmacology.
Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Puerperium
Here is a look at a summary of USMLE outline for the pregnancy, childbirth, and puerperium section section with a focus on pharmacology related topics.
Prenatal Care
- Folate Deficiency Prevention
- Nutritional Assessment
- Vitamins
- Rh Screening/Rh Isoimmunization
Supervision of Normal Pregnancy
- Iron-deficiency Anemia/Prevention
- Vitamin Deficiency Prevention
- Hepatitis B Virus
- Herpes Simplex Viruses
- HIV
- Influenza Virus
- Chlamydia trachomatis
- Treponema pallidum
- Streptococcus agalactiae
- Toxoplasma gondii
- Amnionitis
- Asymptomatic UTI
Obstetric Complications
- Induced Abortion
- Anemia of Pregnancy
- Cardiomyopathy of Pregnancy
- Ectopic Pregnancy
- Gestational Diabetes
- Rh Isoimmunization
- Vomiting in pregnancy
- Infections complicating pregnancy
Labor & Delivery
- Intrapartum Prophylaxis
- HIV
- Chlamydia
- Gonococcal prophylaxis
- Threatened preterm labor
Puerperium
- Postpartum Cardiomyopathy
- Postpartum Blues
- Postpartum Hemorrhage
- Postpartum Sepsis
- Uterine Atony
Adverse Effects of Drugs on Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Puerperium
- Alcohol
- Tobacco
- Other Drugs
- Teratology
- ACE Inhibitors
- SSRIs
- Warfarin
- Infections
- Toxins
- Inhibitors of coagulation factors
- Methemoglobinemia
- Propylthiouracil
- Tumor lysis syndrome
- Warfarin
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