Course Description: Integration of different facets of mechanisms underlying health and disease.
Course Objectives: Students will describe, draw or recognize normal and abnormal functions of various organ systems; describe the known and hypothesized mechanisms for each disease including the incidence and economic impact, symptoms, complications; and describe accepted therapeutic interventions.
Prerequisites: BMS 360; concurrent registration with BMS 492; Biomedical Sciences major only
Format: 4 credits
Semesters Offered: Spring
Coordinator: D.N. Rao Veeramachaneni
Text: TBD
Course Outline:
| Week 1: | Introduction; Overview of Basic Concepts | |
| Week 2: | Inflammation and Infectious Diseases | |
| Week 3: | Cancer - Concepts and Mechanisms | |
| Week 4: | Genetic Diseases | |
| Week 5: | Integumentary Systems - Skin Disorders | |
| Week 6: | Nervous System Disorders | |
| Week 7: | Endocrine Disorders | |
| Week 8: | Metabolic Diseases - Thyroid, Parathyroid and Endocrine Pancreas | |
| Week 9: | Digestive System - Disorders of Liver and Exocrine Pancreas | |
| Week 10: | Cardiovascular Disease | |
| Week 11: | Blood Disorders | |
| Week 12: | Disorders of the Immune System | |
| Week 13: | Respiratory System - Pulmonary Disorders | |
| Week 14: | Urinary System - Renal Disease | |
| Week 15: | Reproduction Systems - Infertility |
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