TV5110:03
Systemic Pathology
Townsville
Prerequisites: TV5010
24 lectures, 36 hours practicals. Second semester.
Available to graduate students with a degree in Veterinary Science (other appropriately trained graduates may enrol at the discretion of the Director of the Australian Institute of Tropical Veterinary and Animal Science).
Staff: Professor P Summers.
This subject covers the essential concepts of the pathobiology of the various body systems using examples from human and veterinary medicine.
Learning Objectives:
- describe the major diseases affecting particular body systems;
- understand how one or several injurious agents cause these diseases and how each disease progresses;
- appreciate the complexity of disease and the role of predisposing factors;
- relate structural changes to functional ones and suggest which laboratory procedures might be appropriate for diagnosis.
Assessment by attendance at practical classes and achievement in tasks related thereto (30%); examinations on material presented in lectures (70%).