STEP 2 CK Content Outline

Disorders of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Puerperium

Health and Health Maintenance

Prenatal care (eg, nutrition; prevention of iron deficiency; prevention of vitamin deficiency; Rh immunoglobulin prophylaxis; prenatal diagnosis; teratology, diabetes mellitus, urinary tract infection, a-fetoprotein, rubella, genital herpes, streptococcal infections)
Assessment of the at-risk pregnancy; risk of preterm labor
Intrapartum care; signs of fetal compromise
Contraception; sterilization; prevention of pregnancy after rape

Mechanisms of Disease

Diagnosis

Pregnancy and labor, including obstetric complications (eg, ectopic pregnancy; spontaneous abortion/septic abortion; hypertension; third-trimester bleeding; hydramnios; preterm labor, premature rupture of the membranes, normal labor; multiple gestation; intrapartum fetal distress/fetal death; maternal mortality; fetal growth and development abnormalities; congenital abnormalities; gestational trophoblastic disease)
Nonobstetric complications of pregnancy (eg, major medical complications and preexisting medical conditions; surgical complications; hyperemesis gravidarum)
Complications of the puerperium (eg, problems with breast-feeding; postpartum hemorrhage; postpartum sepsis; postpartum depression, psychosis; mastitis; venous thromboembolism)

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