PP2101:03
Medical Physiology 1
| Townsville | HECS Band 2 |
36 hours lectures, 24 hours practicals. Semester 1.
Available to any students with an interest in physiology, excluding Nursing Science and Pharmacy students.
Staff: Dr G Hamlin.
This subject provides the student with the foundation knowledge for further studies in human physiology and pharmacology. It covers a diversity of functions of the human body including cell and tissue organisation; tissue excitation; electrophysiology; blood and lymph and the physiology of the nervous, musculoskeletal, cardiovascular and immune systems. This knowledge is essential for careers in health related areas, human biomedical research and drug research and development.
Learning Objectives:
- overall body structure and organisation;
- cell and tissue structure and classification;
- electrical communication within excitable tissues;
- the role of blood constituents and lymph in the body;
- functional and structural aspects of the nervous, musculoskeletal, cardiovascular and immune systems.
Assessment by one three-hour examination at the end of semester (70%); laboratory work/reports (30%).