PP3151:03
General Pathobiology
| Townsville | HECS Band 2 |
35 hours lectures, 36 hours practicals. Semester 1.
Staff: Professor P Summers.
Mechanisms of disease processes are addressed. Thus, the general principles of pathobiology are covered with particular reference to the different causes and mechanisms of disease.
Learning Objectives:
- understand how cells respond to injury of diverse type;
- appreciate at the cellular level the difference between cell degeneration and death, and adaption of cells to an altered extracellular environment;
- describe the cellular changes that occur in such states as genetic disorders, inflammation, immunopathology and neoplasia;
- describe in general terms the procedures routinely used in diagnostic pathology.
Assessment by attendance at practical classes and related examination (25%); three-hour written examination (70%); assignments (5%).