STEP 2 CK Content Outline

Immunologic Disorders

Health and Health Maintenance

• Anaphylaxis and other allergic reactions
• HIV infection/AIDS
• Immunization against infectious agents (including infants, children, adults, the elderly; patients having compromised immune systems)

Mechanisms of Disease

• Abnormalities of cell-mediated immunity
• Abnormalities of humoral immunity

Diagnosis

• Anaphylactic reactions and shock
• Connective tissue disorders (eg, mixed connective tissue disease and systemic lupus erythematosus)
• HIV infection/AIDS; deficiencies of cell-mediated immunity
• Deficiencies of humoral immunity; combined immune deficiency

Principles of Management
(With emphasis on topics covered in Diagnosis)

• Pharmacotherapy only
• Management decision (treatment/diagnosis steps)
• Treatment only