About This Course
This course is designed to present an orientation to disease as disordered physiology. It is intended to enable medical students to understand how and why the symptoms and signs of various conditions appear. In approaching disease as disordered physiology, this course analyzes the mechanism(s) of production of the symptoms and signs of different disease syndromes. In doing so, it recognizes the student’s and practitioner’s need to understand the mechanism(s) underlying the disease and its clinical manifestations so that rational therapies can be devised. Thus, appropriate screening and diagnostic laboratory evaluative methods will also be included.
Material Includes
- Chowdry, P. (1993). Pathophysiology with practical applications. Dubuque, Iowa: Wm. C. Brown Publishers.
- Copstead, L.C. & Banasik, J.L. (eds.) (2005). Perspectives on pathophysiology, 3rd Ed. Elsevier/Saunders Publishing Company.
- Corwin, E. (1999). Handbook of pathophysiology, 2nd ed. (1999). Philadelphia: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins.
- Crowley, L.V. ( 2001). An Introduction to human disease: Pathology and pathophysiology correlations, 5th ed. Boston, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers.
- Damjanov, I. (2000). Pathology for the health related professions, 2nd ed. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Publishing Co.
- Guyton, A.C., and Hall, J.E. (1996). Human physiology and mechanisms of disease, 6th ed. Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Co.
Curriculum
1 Lesson98h
Week 1: Introduction to General Pathology
Mechanisms of Disease Pathophysiological Conditions00:00
Week 2-3: Hematologic Disorders Pathophysiological Conditions
Week 4-5: Cardiovascular Physiology Pathophysiological
Week 6: Renal Pathophysiology Pathophysiological Conditions
Week 7: Revision and Midterm
Week 8: Respiratory Pathophysiology Pathophysiological Conditions
Week 9: Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders Pathophysiological
Week 10: Disorders of the Reproductive Systems Pathophysiological Conditions
Week 11: Fluid and Electrolyte Disorders Pathophysiological Conditions
Week 12: Gastrointestinal Pathophysiology Pathophysiological
Week 13: Neurological Disorders Pathophysiological
Week 14: Revision and Final Exam
Free
Enrollment validity:
Lifetime
