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Pathological Physiology
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:2.00
Study Course Accepted:10.01.2023 09:38:12
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | PAK_036 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Clinical Medicine; Pathology | Target Audience: | Medicine | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Ilze Štrumfa | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Department of Pathology | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | RSU, Patoloģijas katedra, Kuldigas Street 9A, Riga, LV-1007, Latvia; pak rsu[pnkts]lv, +371 67815096 | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 0 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 0 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 0 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 16 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 32 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 32 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Cell biology, human anatomy, histology, embryology, genetics, physiology and biochemistry. | ||||||||
| Objective: | The objective of this course is to ensure the knowledge in pathology for students lacking sufficient knowledge and/or skills of critical thinking. The course includes of general and special pathological physiology – pathogenesis of some pathological conditions and diseases. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | The concept of disease as a process, its etiology and pathogenesis. The concept of cell damage: essence, pathogenesis, terminology. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Peripheral circulatory disorders: nature, insight into pathogenesis, terminology. The concept of hypoxia. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Inflammation, its local, systemic and laboratory manifestations. Fever. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Cardiovascular pathology | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Respiratory pathology | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Digestive pathology | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Liver pathology | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | Diabetes mellitus | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 9 | Renal pathology | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 10 | Anaemia | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 11 | Leukocyte reactions. Pathology of blood coagulation. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 12 | Colloquium | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 13 | Insights into Bone Pathology. The concept of osteoporosis. Disorders of calcium metabolism. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 14 | The most common joint diseases. Insights into autoimmune pathologies. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 15 | Insights into CNS pathology. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Learning the study material in accordance with the topics specified in e-studies and posted study materials. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | During the course of study, the lecturers conduct a knowledge test with the help of short tests (multiple-choice test or another short form of test according to the teacher's instructions). During their studies, students take colloquiums, which consist of theoretical questions in the form of a multiple-choice test and/or clinical tasks that reflect the pathologies learned during their studies. At the end of the study course, according to the plan of the relevant study program, students take a written or electronic exam in the form of a multiple-choice test. According to point 2.16 of the RSU Study Regulations (as per the meeting of the RSU Senate on April 21, 2020; protocol No. 2-1/4/2020), the final grade of the study course consists of the cumulative assessment (50%) and the actual knowledge acquired by the student (50% ) according to the final exam result of the course. Evaluation of all test papers, incl. percentage and with grades, is done in accordance with the valid version I of the Study Regulations of Riga Stradiņš University. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | As a result of studying the course, the student will know and be able to explain the nature, development, causes, consequences and outcomes of various diseases and general pathological processes. | ||||||||
| Skills: | In clinical tasks, the student will be able to identify the most common pathologies, evaluate their pathogenesis in a reasoned manner. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | In clinical tasks, the student will be able to identify the most common pathologies, evaluate their pathogenesis in a reasoned manner. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | RSU e-studiju materiāli | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Robbins Basic Pathology. 10th ed. Kumar V, Cotran RS, Robbins SL. Saunders, Philadelphia, 2018, 873 lpp. | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | Robbins and Cotran Pathological Basis of Disease. Kumar V, Abbas AK, Fausto N, Aster J. Elsevier, 2021. | ||||||||
