Pathophysiology 1
Objectives
The main aim of teaching pathophysiology is to promote the learning of disease
mechanisms and the understanding of their expressions.
The methods used in teaching pathophysiology should enable students to
demonstrate:
- Knowledge of the causes and mechanisms that explain the manifestations of the
major syndromes and diseases, in a perspective that ranges from the system and
the apparatus to the molecule.
- Critical thinking skills applied to the interpretation of pathophysiological
mechanisms, using the construction and analysis of concept maps.
- Attitudes to information retrieval leading to the appropriate use of all human and
technological resources available for learning pathophysiology, individually or in
groups.
General characterization
Code
107012
Credits
5
Responsible teacher
Pedro Miguel Carvalho Diogo Carreiro Martins,Nuno Manuel Barreiros Neuparth,SUSANA ISABEL MATEUS SANTOS,SOFIA LAURA PEREIRA RIBEIRO RAMOS
Hours
Weekly - Available soon
Total - 140
Teaching language
PT
Prerequisites
Available soon
Bibliography
Available soon
Teaching method
Each block is organized in lectures (b-learning, asynchronous recorded pptx and
some synchronous zoom sessions via zoom) and tutorial sessions (e-learning,
synchronous sessions by zoom and face- to-face in small groups (<8) and its
objective is to promote the learning of the pathophysiological mechanisms of
diseases. During the tutorial sessions, students will use short clinical cases, from
where conceptual maps will be constructed and analysed (see complementary
information "Organização das sessões tutoriais").
The methodology of constructing and analysing conceptual maps, in the
pathophysiology context, corresponds to the visual explicitness of previously
acquired and of new knowledge and to its application in the understanding of
pathophysiological mechanisms. This methodology contributes to a meaningful
learning and its application to short clinical cases.
Evaluation method
This Curricular Unit uses the following methodologies of teaching/learning: lectures
aiming at explain pathophysiological concepts taking into account new and
previously acquired knowledge and also the need to recall knowledge from other
Curricular Units such as Physiology and Immunology. During the tutorial sessions,
students learn how to build conceptual maps from short clinical cases according to
learning issues identified and studied during the analysis of each case. At the end
of each conceptual map, after teamwork, the students present a map in a group
discussion taking into account the knowledge acquired during the map
construction. As the learning objectives include the ability to integrate
pathophysiology knowledge, from the molecule to the organ, this methodology is
very coherent because with the concept of meaningful learning, besides the tutorial
sessions, uses a visible and useful ¿product¿ allowing formative feed-back in real
time which is the map.
Subject matter
In Pathophysiology I the blocks will be: pathophysiology of general expressions I,
pathophysiology of the circulatory system, pathophysiology of the respiratory
system and pathophysiology of blood and hemostasis.