A basic knowledge of Virology, Bacteriology, Parasitology and Immunology.
To offer students a modern view of the biology of disease as the basis for understanding the pathophysiological and clinical dimensions and rational approaches to therapy.
The Course will provide a unifying framework for the processes of cell injury, inflammation, regeneration, repair, degenerative diseases and cancer, namely an evolutionary perspective of disease the disease process (comparative pathology). The Course will also offer 'in depth' discussion of model systems (cells, organ cultures, organisms) that have proved particularly valuable for the study of disease. Finally, the Course offers an in depth analysis of the molecular basis of disease and how these drive the disease process at the cellular, tissue and organ level.
Lectures, seminars and tutorials.
One of the following textbooks: Underwood's Pathology. SS Cross, Churchill-Livingstone (6th Ed) (2013) £. 40.45
Muir's Textbook of Pathology. D Levison, R Reid, S Fleming, D Harrison & A Burt. 14th ed., Hodder Arnold Publication (2009) £. 42.24
Robbins & Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease.V Kumar, AK Abbas, N Fausto & J Aster Saunders. 8th ed. (2009) £. 71.09
A written paper (2 hours) consisting of 5 essays (one long essay adn 4 short essays) covering the main parts of the syllabus.
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