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Course code: VVSS00156f13Semester: 2013/2014 winter
Name: Clinical physiology
Major: Veterinary Medicine
Study Type: one cycle
Course type: optional
Study Semester: 5
ECTS points: 2
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 15 / 15 / 0
Lecturer: Prof. dr hab. Krzysztof Romański
Language of instruction: Polish / English
Learning outcomes: Knowledge: Student describes, explains and interpretes the rules and mechanisms of animal health, of disease development and therapy - from the cellular level, through the organ, animal, animal herd untill the whole animal population Practical skills: -exhibits the ability of listening and answering with the language that is comprehensible and adequate to situation
Competences: Student exhibits the fashion of continual broadening of knowledge and developing skills
Prerequisites: Animal Anatomy, Biochemistry, Biophysics, Animal Histology and Embryology, Animal Nutrition, Animal Physiology
Course content: General outline of local homeostasis; homeostasis, and hormones; homeostasis, and adaptation; preclinical topics; physiological norms; methodology and course of examinations, biological rhythms, homeostasis of calcium and glucose, functional tests in discussed scope, situations between physiology and pathology like pain, stress obesity, cachexia.
Recommended literature: 1. Ed.: N. V. Anderson. Veterinary Gastroenterology. Lea & Febiger, Philadelphia 1992. 2. Eds.: S. J. Ettinger, E. C. Feldman. Textbook of Veterinary Internal Medicine. W. B. Saunders Co., Philadelphia 2000. 3. Ed.: J. G. Cunningham. Textbook of Veterinary Physiology. W. B. Saunders Co., Philadelphia 1992. 4. F. Javid, J. McCurrie. Clinical Physiology and Pharmacology. The Essentials. Wiley-Blackwell 2008. 5. A. Banerjee. Clinical Physiology. Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Assessment methods: Oral exam
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