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SU810: Human Pathophysiology (15 ECTS)

STADS: 29003501

Level
Master's level course

Teaching period
The course is offered in the autumn semester.

Teacher responsible
Email: jkklitgaard@health.sdu.dk

Timetable
Group Type Day Time Classroom Weeks Comment
Common I Monday 09-12 WP 15 Kursussal 36
Common I Monday 09-12 WP 17.109 37-41,43,48-49
Common I Monday 08-12 WP 15 Kursussal 44
Common I Monday 11-12 WP 15 st. Lille aud 45
Common I Monday 09-12 WP JEE 45,51
Common I Monday 09-12 WP 15.st.aud. 46
Common I Monday 09-12 Klinikbygning Marie Krogh 50
Common I Wednesday 14-17 WP 17.109 36-37,40,43,48-51
Common I Wednesday 15-17 WP 15 st. Lille aud 37 Stine sonne
Common I Wednesday 15-18 U150 39
Common I Wednesday 14-16 WP 17.109 41
Common I Wednesday 14-17 WP 15 Kursussal 44-45
Common I Wednesday 11-12 WP JEE 45 Martin Wirenfeldt
Common I Wednesday 14-15 WP 17.109 46 Keld
Common I Wednesday 14-17 U43 47
Common I Wednesday 08-11 WP 17.109 47
Common I Thursday 15-18 WP 15.st.aud. 38
Common I Thursday 14-17 WP 15 Kursussal 43
Common I Thursday 12-14 WP 17.109 46
Common I Thursday 10-13 WP 17.109 50
Common I Friday 10-14 WP 15.st.aud. 35
Common I Friday 09-12 WP 17.109 36,38,46-47,49
Common I Friday 09-12 WP 15 Kursussal 37,39,45
Common I Friday 09-12 Klinikbygning Torben K. With 40
Common I Friday 09-12 WP JEE 41
Common I Friday 08-12 WP 17.109 44
Common I Friday 09-10 WP 17.109 48
Common I Friday 12-14 WP 15.st.aud. 50
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Prerequisites:
A Bachelor’s degree in Biomedicine.

Academic preconditions:
Students taking the course are expected to have knowledge of anatomy, medical physiology, immunology, biochemistry and molecular biology.

Course introduction
The aim of the course is to enable the student to understand the most important disease mechanisms at the cellular, sub-cellular and molecular level, which is important in relation to explain how diseases and disease complexes present themselves on a macroscopic pathological and clinical level.

The course builds on the knowledge acquired in the courses SU501 Anatomy, SU502 Medical physiology, BMB512 Theoretical immunology and BMB514 Immunological techniques, and gives an academic basis for the choice of master project that is a part of the degree.

In relation to the competence profile of the degree it is the explicit focus of the course to:

  • Give knowledge and understanding of the pathophysiology of main disease and discuss the limitations of that knowledge.
  • Give the competence to present examples of diseases in which thorough knowledge of the cellular and molecular pathophysiology exists, and discuss how this knowledge is obtained (methods and assumptions).
  • Give skills in communication between biochemists / molecular biologists and employees in the medical and health sector.


Expected learning outcome
The learning objectives of the course are that the student demonstrates the ability to:
  • Explain the most important disease mechanisms at the cellular, sub cellular and molecular level and thus explain how diseases and disease complexes present themselves on a macroscopic pathological and clinical level.
  • Explain the present pathophysiological knowledge on the most important disease and discuss the limitations of that knowledge.
  • Describe examples of diseases in which thorough knowledge of the cellular and molecular pathophysiology is known, and discuss how this knowledge is obtained (methods and assumptions).
Subject overview
The following main topics are contained in the course:
  • Interdisciplinary topics:
    • molecular pathophysiology
    • oncology
    • Infection and Immunity
  • Organ Related topics:
    • CNS
    • cardiovascular and lungs
    • endocrinology and metabolism
    • gastrointestinal liver / biliary-pancreatic area
    • kidney and fluid balance
    • musculoskeletal
Literature
  • McPhee: Pathophysiology of Disease: An Introduction to Clinical Medicine, 7th edition.


Website
This course uses e-learn (blackboard).

Prerequisites for participating in the exam
None

Assessment and marking:
  1. Written exam without exam aids. Graded by Danish 7-mark scale and external examiner. Without aids. A closer description of the exam rules will be posted under 'Course Information' on Blackboard. (15 ECTS). (29003502).
Expected working hours
The teaching method is based on three phase model.
Intro phase: 95 hours
Skills training phase: 25 hours, hereof:
 - Tutorials: 40 hours

Educational activities
Activities during the study phase:
  • Self-study of the textbook
  • Independent capture of introductory and training phase
  • Repetition for the exam
Educational form
The Intro phase consists of lectures with dialogue mostly created by summing tasks. A brief introduction is provided to the course topics and competences are obtained in addition to the study guide and textbook which students are expected to study independently.
 
During the skills training phase competencies in pathophysiology are obtained. In tutorials the students work with exersices they might have prepared at home.
 
In the study phase, students are expected to work independently with the textbook and examples and exercises herein. Students are expected to use part of the study phase to pick up on the skills training phase and to reserve a portion for repetition up to the written exam.
 


Language
This course is taught in Danish or English, depending on the lecturer. However, if international students participate, the teaching language will always be English.

Course enrollment
See deadline of enrolment.

Tuition fees for single courses
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