Biopathology I

Code:

MD3501

Acronym:

B I

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Medicine

Instance: 2013/2014 - 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	70	PLANO OFICIAL 2007/2008 BOLONHA	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.

Learning outcomes and competences

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.

Working method

Presencial

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 2013-2014:

Theory sessions (Tuesday-2:30pm)
- Nomenclature and classification of the lesions

-Degenerative process

- Cell death (apoptosis e necrosis) and disease
- Acute inflammation
- Chronic inflammation
- Auto-immune diseases and hypersensitivity reactions
- Regeneration and scar formation I
- Bone regeneration
- Neoplasic initiation and progression
- Genes and cancer I
- Genes and cancer II
- Epigenetics and cancer
- Squamous cell carcinoma
- Frozen section and tissue banking
- Doubts section

Seminars (tuesday-3:30pm or 5:30pm)
- Cell death aspects I
- Cell death aspects II
- Degenerative process and function  impairments
- Inflammatory process aspects I

- Inflammatory process aspects II
- Imunopathology
- Infection and cancer
- Inflammatory process and function  impairment
- Neoplasia aspects I
- Neoplasia aspects II

- Descriptive exercises

- Hereditary neoplastic syndromes
- Squamous cell carcinoma of the oral mucosa
- Autopsy

Practice sessions (wednesday)
- Normal and pathological cellular alterations
- Acute and chronic infarction
- Diabetes and amyloidosis
- Rheumatic fever and valvular diseases
- Inflammation
- Vascular pathology
- Immunopathology
- 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

58 hours of sessions that corresponds to 1 hour of theory session per week; 2 hours of seminar per week and 2 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 2 hours each two weeks. The session comprehends the discussion of one subject with previous distribution to the students (at SIGARRA website) 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 separated sessions.    

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
	Exame		90,00
	Participação presencial		10,00
	Total:	-	100,00

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: 20 questions with short answer in a limited period of time about slides with images showed during classes or very similar to pictures presented in recommended book.

Theory exam: 65 questions – 40 multiple choice questions and 25 questions with short answer that should be completely correct to be considered.

The questions without a proportionated difficulty with be eliminated afterwards without penalization for the student.

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: The Biopatologia team is available for consultation every Tuesdays from 12:00 to 14:30 after previous contact.