Pathology

COURSE OBJECTIVE
At the end of the course the students will be able to:

• use relevant terminology and classify diseases

• understand physiological and pathological processes and the basic concepts of diseases

• recognize and describe the most common diseases using microscopic and macroscopic preparations

• present and discuss (in own words) a biomedical research article (manuscript) related to the course literature and give constructive feedback on presentations by their colleagues.

COURSE CONTENT
Compulsory practicals: 1) microscopy and, 2) digital microscopy of organs and tissues in different diseases. In Workgroups the students must prepare and present a presentation summarising scientific manuscripts. The workgroups will also give feedback to their colleagues in other workgroups.

TEACHING METHODS
Lectures related to the textbook Robbins

Group assignment including presentations of a scientific article 

Preparation (macroscopic session) practical session : recognition of different pathologies in organ.

Web-based digital practical sessions (10 hours): 3 sessions in which the students learn the basics of the literature by web microscopy and multiple choice questions

TYPE OF ASSESSMENT
Exam (95%): assessment is by two digital exams (95%) consisting of multiple choice and open questions.

Presentation (5%): assessment is based on the presentation and discussion of a scientific paper

Practicals: These are compulsory to obtain a grade . The final mark will be determined by the average of the scores for the two exams (95%) and the presentation (5%), and must be on average at least 5.5 (separate marks may be lower than a 5.5).

Resits: One exam that includes the entire subject matter. The presentation cannot be retaken: the mark awarded will remain at the resit.