Biopathology I

Code:

MD3501

Acronym:

B I

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Medicine

Instance: 2009/2010 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Mestrado Integrado
Course/CS Responsible:	Integrated Master in Dental Medicine

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MIMD	79	PLANO OFICIAL 2007/2008 BOLONHA	3	-	5	72	135
		Plano de Transição 2º Ano Bolonha 2007	3	-	5	72	135
		Plano de Transição 3º Ano Bolonha 2007	3	-	5	72	135

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

Anatomia Patológica dedicates to the study of structural and functional alterations of cells, organs and tissues which are the base of diseases.

Anatomia Patológica – Biopatologia I principal goal is to teach a new language.
Pathology language provides the basic words of all medical terms and, by its antiquity and universality in the biomedical sciences, is a valorous instrument for a structured integration of knowledge and discoveries that constantly occur specially at the Molecular Biology field.
Learning this language comprehends memorization of words and understanding their concepts/definitions, although the ability to use this knowledge in the interpretation of new data and problems resolution is also important.
Wishfully the young dentist should be able to recognise biological processes and disease models that will allow him to identify several differential diagnoses and establish prognosis when confronted to a determined clinical situation.

Program

Anatomia Patológica – Biopatologia I program is related to the study plan of Anatomia Patológica – Biopatologia II which is focused in the study of organs and systems (3rd year, 6th semester).

This is the session’s program for 2009-2010:

Theory sessions (monday-2:00pm)
- Lesions classification: from mutilating necrosis to cancer new structure
- Hypersensitivity reactions
- Infarction as an example of degenerative processes cell
- Death (apoptosis e necrosis) and disease
- Acute inflammation
- Chronic and granulomatous inflammation
- Regeneration and scar formation
- Neoplasic initiation and progression
- Oncogenes and cancer
- Oncossupressor genes and cancer
- Hereditary neoplasic syndromes
- Citopathology and frozen section

Seminars (monday-3:00pm)
- Necrotic lesions aspects (infarction)
- Autoimmune diseases
- Cardiomyopathies, heart failure and vasculitides
- Diabetes and amyloidosis
- Inflammatory process aspects
- Pneumonias
- Children hepatic and malabsorption diseases
- Viral hepatitis and cirrhosis
- Neoplasia aspects I
- Neoplasia aspects II
- Squamous cell carcinoma of the oral mucosa
- Autopsy

Practice sessions (wednesday)
- Normal and pathological cellular alterations
- Acute and chronic infarction
- Vascular pathology
- Immunopathology
- Inflammation
- Diabetes and amyloidosis
- Rheumatic fever and valvular diseases
- Pneumonias and tuberculosis
- Hyperplasia, metaplasia and neoplasia
- Neoplasia I
- Neoplasia II

Mandatory literature

Cooke, Robin A.; Colour atlas of anatomical pathology. ISBN: 0-443-05062-7
Kumar Vinay; Robbins and Cotran pathologic basis of disease. ISBN: 0-7216-0187-1

Complementary Bibliography

Kumar Vinay 070; Robbins Basic Pathology. ISBN: 978-1-4160-2973-1

Teaching methods and learning activities

48,5 hours of sessions that corresponds to 1 hour of theory session per week; 2 hours of seminar per week and 1,5 hours practice per each two weeks.

One theory session per week during one hour maximum: 50 minutes of theory followed by 10 minutes of discussion.

One seminar per week during two hours maximum with previous distribution of texts and pictures (trough online Crucial Documents, at Sigarra website) to the students, that wishfully should discuss them during the session.

One practice session during 1,5 hours each two weeks. The session comprehends the discussion of one or two subjects with previous distribution to the students (trough online Crucial Documents) of texts and pictures of selected cases: macroscopic pictures of surgical specimens, histology slide pictures, histochemical and immunohistochemical slide pictures and ultrastructural photos. Wishfully, the student should explore previously the distributed documents and be able to discuss them during the session. Students should be distributed in to four groups and be present in separately sessions.

Crucial Documents includes: a) a glossary, b) introductory texts and documents related to practice sessions, c) documents to guide seminars preparation and d) relevant internet links to pathology sites.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Attendance (estimated)	Participação presencial	48,50
Exam - Normal	Exame	2,00		2010-01-18
Exam - Recourse	Exame	2,00		2010-02-01
Exam - Extraordinary	Exame	2,00
	Total:	-	0,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Description	Type	Time (hours)	End date
Seminars preparation	Estudo autónomo	20
Practice sessions preparation	Estudo autónomo	20
Study	Estudo autónomo	40,5
	Total:	80,50

Eligibility for exams

Absences control is made 10 minutes after sessions beginning and accounts with 2 points for the global evaluation (see Faculty evaluation rules).
Students exceeding 25% of the foreseeable sessions will not obtain frequency, according to the faculty’s evaluation rules.

Calculation formula of final grade

Final Classification Formula: 2 points (attendance) + 3 points (practice exam) + 15 points (theory exam).

Practice exam: 30 multiple choice questions about image documents showed during sessions or very similar to pictures presented in recommended books.

Theory exam: 75 questions – 25 multiple choice questions and 50 uncued questions that should be answered with glossary words.

There is no penalisation for wrong answers.
There will be no oratory defence.
Practice and theory exam can be reviewed by student’s requisition.

Examinations or Special Assignments

According to the faculty’s evaluation rules.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

According to the faculty’s evaluation rules.

Classification improvement

According to the faculty’s evaluation rules.

Observations

Note: for further information please see Crucial Documents.
The Biopatologia I team is available for consultation every Wednesdays from 8:00 to 10:00 am.