Biopathology I

Code:

MI331

Acronym:

BIOPAT1

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Medicine

Instance: 2022/2023 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Web Page:	https://moodle.up.pt/course/view.php?id=365
Responsible unit:	Departamento de Patologia
Course/CS Responsible:	Integrated Master in Medicine

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MIMED	263	Plano Oficial 2021	3	-	8	76	216

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

The main aim of Biopathology I is getting the students to learn a language. Learning of this language includes not only the memorisation and recall of words and of concepts but also the capability for using this knowledge in the interpretation of data and for solving pathogenic and diagnostic problems. Another purpose is getting the students to improve their observation and report skills at different levels (macroscopic, microscopic, histochemical, etc.) to become capable of understanding the etiopathogenesis of diseases in biopathological terms starting from observational data.

Learning outcomes and competences

 

The course includes topics that allow the students to identify and interpret lesions, using an appropriate language. It is expected that students improve their capacity to analyze and integrate data for decision making in problems of etiopathogenesis, diagnosis and prognosis.

Working method

Presencial

Program

Major lesion types; Introduction to molecular pathology; Genetic-environmental interaction in the genesis of diseases; Inflammation, necrosis and neoplasia; Proliferation, differentiation and cell death; Adaptation and lesion; Cell death: Necrosis and apoptosis; Regulation of proliferation; Regulation of apoptosis; Acute inflammation; Chronic inflammation and granulomatous inflammation; Regeneration; Angiogenesis; Isquemic, metabolic, degenerative and auto-immune disorders; Inflammatory and infectious diseases of the digestive tract, liver, lung and kidney.

Mandatory literature

Vinay Kumar, Abul K Abbas, Jon C Aster; Pathologic Basis of Disease, Elsevier, 2021. ISBN: ISBN 9780323531139

Teaching methods and learning activities

216 hours/student, corresponding to 76h presential teaching: 1h/week - lectures; 2.5h/week – seminars; 2h/week - practical sessions. The practical session is dedicated to observation of macroscopic, histological and ultrastructural specimens available at the e-learning page of the discipline. The clinical history and pathological data of Seminars are also available to the students at the e-Learning page of the discipline and includes autopsy cases. There will be Anatomo-Clinical Conferences (CACs). E-learning course:information on the objectives of the Discipline, program, calendar, assessment, model examination and additional material to introduce contents that are not explicit in the text books, glossary, introductory texts for the practical sessions, quizzes, material for preparing the Seminars.

keywords

Health sciences > Medical sciences > Medicine

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	10,00
Teste	90,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	140,00
Frequência das aulas	76,00
Total:	216,00

Eligibility for exams

According to the norms from the Pedagogical Council. Students with special regimes (e.g. student workers) will also follow the norms from the Pedagogical Council.

Calculation formula of final grade

Practical part (4,5 marks), Theoretical part (13,5 marks), assessment for Seminars and practical sessions (1.5 marks), answers to bi-weekly quizzes (0,5 marks). The final mark is the result of the sum of the parcels.

The practical exam comprises 33 multiple choice questions (with two or five options). The theoretical exam comprises 100 multiple choice questions (with five or 10 options) and has a duration of 100 minutes (1 minute/question). None of the evaluation componentes has a minimal mark.

All questions from both exams (practical and theoretical) give rise to discounts: each wrong answer in questions with five choices discounts the equivalent to ¼ of the quotation of a correct answer; each wrong answer in questions with 2 choices discounts the equivalent to the quotation of a correct answer. In each exam, and for all students, the 13 questions (3 from the practical exam and 10 from the theoretical exam) that have less discriminating capability will be eliminated and in the end the remaining 120 will be accounted for the final classification.

 The frequency of practical sessions, seminars or CACs is mandatory and attendance impacts on the evaluation: discounts of 0.5 marks (3-4 absences), 1 mark (5-6 absences), 1.5 marks (7 absences). The student will miss attendance whenever exceeding the limit of 25% of the mandatory attendance.

The students registered at the secretary under special statutes will follow one of the two schemes: a) Those that attend seminars and practical sessions will follow the “normal” regime. B) Those that do not attend seminars and practical sessions will be evaluated at a final exam quoted for 20 marks, with practical and theoretical components.

None of the components of the distributed assessment (quizzes, seminars and practical sessions) is subject to appeal.

Examinations or Special Assignments

Bi-weekly quizzes at the e-learning platform.

Preparation of practical sessions and seminars.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Norms from the Pedagogical Council will be applied.

The students registered at the secretary under special statutes will follow one of the two schemes: a) Those that attend seminars and practical sessions will follow the “normal” regime. B) Those that do not attend seminars and practical sessions will be evaluated at a final exam quoted for 20 marks, with practical and theoretical components.

Classification improvement

Students with marks over 17 can make an oral exam to stand up for the mark, being aware that the final mark can maintain the mark but also increase or decrease the mark. If the students in this setting decide not to do the oral exam they will get a final mark of 17. There will be no other circumstance to improve the mark, except those that might take place under contention set under article 22 of the Pedagogical Regulation of the Medical Faculty.