Pathology
          Most of the pathology questions relate to basic pathology principles. Candidates are recommended to read Pathologic Basis of Disease by Kumar and Robbins, Sunders Press which presents the information in easily digestible form. The many MCQs books on pathology are very useful for self-testing.
           
            • inflammation: acute and chronic
             
            • necrosis
             
            • ischaemia
             
            • infarction
             
            • neoplasm: oncogenes, mutation, germ cell tumours, teratoma, basal cell carcinoma
             
            • dystrophic and metastatic calcification
             
            • amyloidosis: ocular and systemic
             
            • HLA: interactions between cells including type I and type II HLA antigens, allograft rejection
             
            • immune response
                • T and B cells
                CD 4+ and 8+ cells
                interleukins
                interferons
                complement system
                spleen and thymus and the types of cells found in each
             
            • hypersensitivity
                • mast cells
                type I to IV
             
            • antibodies
                • idiotypes
                various immunoglobulins and their characteristics
             
            • tumour markers
                • CA 125
                S100
                CEA
                 
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