ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 91 Hours of tutorials: 1 Expository Class: 44 Interactive Classroom: 14 Total: 150
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Physiology
Areas: Physiology
Center Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable | 1st year (Yes)
As in the other two parts of Physiology (Medical physiology and Integrated physiology to be held in the first and the second semesters of the second year) the student will learn the scientific bases of Physiopathology and Pharmacology. To achieve this purpose an understanding about homeostatic mechanisms of the human body must be acquired.
Block I
- Body compartments and transport.
- Capillary exchange of substances.
Block II
- Physiology of the blood.
- Rheology and hemodynamics.
Block III
-Principles of communication and cell signaling.
Block IV
- general physiology of excitable cells.
- Action Potential on nerve
- Ion channels.
- The neuron: chemical and electrical synapses
- Sensory Receptors (sensitive).
- Muscle proprioceptors.
- Skeletal muscle.
- Smooth Muscle.
- Heart muscle.
Block V
- Autonomic nervous system.
Block VI
- CSF, BBB, Glia.
Basic bibliography:
Fisiología Médica 3ª Ed. Walter F. Boron, Emile L. Boulpaep. Elsevier, 2017.
Fisiología. Berne y Levy. Sexta edición. Elsevier-Mosby. 2009.
Molecular biology of the cell / Bruce Alberts ... [et al.] ; with problems by John Wilson, Tim Hunt 6th ed., New York : Garland Science, 2015
Complementary bibliography:
Fisiología Humana. Stuart Ira Fox, McGraw Hill-Interamericana, 2008.
Tratado de Fisiología Médica. Arthur C. Guyton, John E. Hall. Elsevier-Saunder, 2011.
Principios de Neurociencia. (eds. E.R.Kandel, J.H.Schwartz, T.M. Jessell). McGraw-Hill Interamericana. 2004, 2009.
The central nervous system, 4ª ed (P. Brodal) Oxford University Press; 2010.
For all books in Spanish, the use of the original English versions is welcome.
Teaching objectives
At the end of the course, the students will:
Understand and recognize the normal structure-function of the human body, at molecular, cellular, tissue, organ and system levels, in the various stages of life, and for both sexes.
Have acquired the basic formation skills for biomedical research.
Specifically, the students will:
Understand the concept of homeostasis.
Describe the laws that rule the transfer of matter between body compartments.
Describe the basic principles of cell communication.
Understand the physical and biological bases of nervous system function that are pertinent for the rest of physiology.
Know blood physiology and the principles that rule its flow in blood vessels.
Situation 1:
Teaching lectures: 44 hours. They will be imparted in classroom, within the limits of general and University rules.
Seminars: 8 hours.
Practical sessions: 6 hours.
Office hours: 3 hours.
For practical lessons, Physiology lab simulations will be used. Students will have all the material needed for them in campus virtual platform.
Assignment to a different group of practical lessons can be modified for any given student if there is an interchange with another student. This has to be notified to the subject coordinator before the session.
Situation 2:
In-class teaching will be complemented with online teaching, synchronous or asynchronous, using the software available to the USC.
For practical lessons, Physiology lab simulations will be used. Students will have all the material needed for them in campus virtual platform.
Office hours will be online, using the software available to the USC.
Situation 3:
All teaching will be online, synchronous or asynchronous, using the software available to the USC.
For practical lessons, Physiology lab simulations will be used. Students will have all the material needed for them in campus virtual platform.
Office hours will be online, using the software available to the USC.
Situation 1:
Final grade will depend on continuous assessment (30% maximum), and a final test (70% minimum) (only if the exam grade is 40% or more).
- For continuous assessment, active participation in seminars, works made in class or autonomously, or exams, both on-site or online, can be considered. Mere presence in classes will not suffice.
- Final exam will be made on premises. Practical questions will only be valid in the practical session has been done.
Situation 2:
Final grade will depend on continuous assessment (30% maximum), and a final test (70% minimum) (only if the exam grade is 40% or more).
- For continuous assessment, active participation in seminars, works made in class or autonomously, or exams, both on-site or online, can be considered. Mere presence in classes will not suffice.
- Final exam will be preferentially online. Practical questions will only be valid in the practical session has been done.
Situation 3:
Final grade will depend on continuous assessment (30% maximum), and a final test (70% minimum) (only if the exam grade is 40% or more).
- For continuous assessment, active participation in seminars, works made in class or autonomously, or exams, both on-site or online, can be considered. No grade will be given for the mere presence in classes.
- Final exam will be online. Practical questions will only be valid in the practical session has been done.
In cases of fraudulent performance of exercises or tests, the provisions of the “Normativa de avaliación do rendemento académico dos estudantes e de revisión de cualificacións” will apply.
Lectures: 44 hours.
Seminars: 8 hours.
Laboratory: 6 hours.
Tutorships: 3 hours.
Final Test: 1 hour.
Individual work: 92 hours.
Students should work on textbooks (at least those listed above) and actively participate in both the lectures and the interactive, so as to understand any text of physiology. They will also prepare lectures using the resources available in the online applications.
Prof. Juan Bautista Zalvide Torrente (juan.zalvide [at] usc.es (juan[dot]zalvide[at]usc[dot]es)) will be the coordinator for the length of the 2017-2018 course. He may be addressed at any time during the course.
e communication between stundets and teachers will be through email addresses provided by the USC server (@usc or @rai.usc).
The moodle virtual classroom is an appropriate communication medium between teachers and students throughot the course, especially in situations 2 and 3.
Contingency plans:
Teaching methodology
Situation 2:
In-class teaching will be complemented with online teaching, synchronous or asynchronous, using the software available to the USC.
For practical lessons, Physiology lab simulations will be used. Students will have all the material needed for them in campus virtual platform.
Office hours will be online, using the software available to the USC.
Situation 3:
All teaching will be online, synchronous or asynchronous, using the software available to the USC.
For practical lessons, Physiology lab simulations will be used. Students will have all the material needed for them in campus virtual platform.
Office hours will be online, using the software available to the USC.
Assessment system
Situation 2:
Final grade will depend on continuous assessment (30% maximum), and a final test (70% minimum) (only if the exam grade is 40% or more).
- For continuous assessment, active participation in seminars, works made in class or autonomously, or exams, both on-site or online, can be considered. Mere presence in classes will not suffice.
- Final exam will be preferentially online. Practical questions will only be valid in the practical session has been done.
Situation 3:
Final grade will depend on continuous assessment (30% maximum), and a final test (70% minimum) (only if the exam grade is 40% or more).
- For continuous assessment, active participation in seminars, works made in class or autonomously, or exams, both on-site or online, can be considered. Mere presence in classes will not suffice.
- Final exam will be online. Practical questions will only be valid in the practical session has been done.
In cases of fraudulent performance of exercises or tests, the provisions of the “Normativa de avaliación do rendemento académico dos estudantes e de revisión de cualificacións” will apply.
Clara Alvarez Villamarin
- Department
- Physiology
- Area
- Physiology
- Phone
- 881815452
- clara.alvarez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
Rosa Maria Señaris Rodriguez
- Department
- Physiology
- Area
- Physiology
- Phone
- 881815442
- rosa.senaris [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
Juan Navarro Alarcon
- Department
- Physiology
- Area
- Physiology
- Phone
- 881812294
- juan.navarro [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: Temporary professor appointed due to Vacancy - T3
Juan Bautista Zalvide Torrente
Coordinador/a- Department
- Physiology
- Area
- Physiology
- Phone
- 881815414
- juan.zalvide [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
Jose Luis Relova Quinteiro
- Department
- Physiology
- Area
- Physiology
- Phone
- 881812293
- joseluis.relova [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
Sulay Amparo Tovar Carro
- Department
- Physiology
- Area
- Physiology
- Phone
- 881815456
- sulay.tovar [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: Temporary PhD professor
Iara Fernandez Gonzalez
- Department
- Physiology
- Area
- Physiology
- iara.fernandez.gonzalez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Xunta Pre-doctoral Contract
Alberto Pradilla Dieste
- Department
- Physiology
- Area
- Physiology
- Category
- Ministry Pre-doctoral Contract
Ángela Turrero Braojos
- Department
- Physiology
- Area
- Physiology
- Phone
- 881815416
- angela.turrero.braojos [at] usc.es
- Category
- Ministry Pre-doctoral Contract
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