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TV5110:03

Systemic Pathology

Townsville

HECS Band 3

24 hours lectures, 36 hours practicals. Semester 2.

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%).