200242110 GENERAL PATHOLOGY ( 2 Crd.Hrs )

"General pathology course provides a major training in pathology concepts to medical students. It will introduce the concepts on origins, pathogenesis and mechanisms of the major pathological changes that occur in diseases which affect human being and the consequences on the cellular and molecular levels and how these correlate clinically. Attention is paid to the processes of cellular injury and adaptation, intracellular accumulations, inflammation and repair, hemodynamic and circulatory disorders, immunology and disorders of growth (esp. neoplasia). The knowledge gained from a study of pathology will be applied to systemic pathology during the integrated courses to provide students with the means for assessment and diagnosis of patients under their care. The general pathology course commences at the first semester of the second academic year. It is a 16 weeks course; consists of 14 weeks of teaching sessions (two hours per week) and 2 weeks of revision and assessment sessions."