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)
The goal of General Physiology (shared with the other two courses of physiology, Medical and Integrated Physiology) is that to attain a level of understanding of both the normal function of the healthy organism and the pathophysiology that is enough for the clinical and research duties of the Medicine graduate. For this, the scientific bases of the body homeostatic mechanisms should be known and understood
Block I
- Body compartments and transport.
- Capillary exchange of substances.
Block II
-Principles of communication and cell signaling.
Block III
- General physiology of excitable cells.
- Membrane potential.
- Nerve action potential.
- Ion channels.
- The neuron: chemical and electrical synapses.
- Sensory receptors.
- Muscle propioceptors.
Block IV
- Autonomous nervous system.
Block V
- CSF, BBB, Glia.
Block VI
- Rheology and hemodynamics.
Block VII
- Blood physiology.
Block VIII
- Skeletal muscle.
- Smooth muscle.
- Heart muscle.
Basic bibliography:
• Medical Physiology 3rd Ed. Walter F. Boron, Emile L. Boulpaep. Elsevier, 2017.
• Physiology. Berne and Levy. Seventh edition. Elsevier-Mosby. 2028.
Complementary bibliography:
• Human physiology. Stuart Ira Fox, McGraw Hill-Inter-American, 2008.
• Guyton and Hall Textbook of Medical Physiology , 14th Edition. John E. Hall. Elsevier, 2021.
• Principles of Neuroscience. (eds. E.R.Kandel, J.H.Schwartz, T.M. Jessell). McGraw-Hill Inter-American. 2004, 2009.
• Alberts B. et al. (2021) Molecular biology of the cell, 6th ed. Garland Science
• The central nervous system, 4th ed (P. Brodal) Oxford University Press; 2010.
For all books in Spanish, the use of the original English versions is appropriate.
At the end of the course, the students will:
• Understand and recognize the normal structure and 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 the functon of the nervous system.
• Know blood physiology and the principles that rule its flow in blood vessels.
- Teaching lectures: 44 hours.
- Interactive Teaching.
o Seminars: 8 hours.
o Practical sessions: 6 hours.
- Office hours: 3 hours
English can be used for some contents.
For practical lessons, Physiology lab simulations can 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.
Final grade will depend on continuous assessment (20%), and a final test 80%) (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.
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 will act as coordinator during the 2022-2023 academic year. To contact him for any incident, the email (juan.zalvide [at] usc.es (juan[dot]zalvide[at]usc[dot]es)) will preferably be used. Correspondence between students and teachers will be through the email addresses provided by the USC server for teachers and students (@usc or @rai.usc)
A virtual classroom will be opened as a means of communication between teachers and students throughout the course.
Clara Alvarez Villamarin
- Department
- Physiology
- Area
- Physiology
- Phone
- 881815452
- clara.alvarez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
Victor Manuel Arce Vazquez
- Department
- Physiology
- Area
- Physiology
- Phone
- 881812291
- victor.arce [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
Coordinador/a- Department
- Physiology
- Area
- Physiology
- Phone
- 881812294
- juan.navarro [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: Temporary professor appointed due to Vacancy - T3
Juan Bautista Zalvide Torrente
- Department
- Physiology
- Area
- Physiology
- Phone
- 881815414
- juan.zalvide [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
Luis Jesus Lima Rodriguez
- Department
- Physiology
- Area
- Physiology
- Phone
- 881812339
- luis.lima [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
Alejandro Ivan Ruiz Riquelme
- Department
- Physiology
- Area
- Physiology
- alejandroivan.ruiz [at] usc.es
- Category
- Investigador/a Distinguido/a
Verónica Rivas Limeres
- Department
- Physiology
- Area
- Physiology
- veronicarivas.limeres [at] usc.es
- Category
- Ministry Pre-doctoral Contract
Tamara Parracho Martínez
- Department
- Physiology
- Area
- Physiology
- tamara.parracho.martinez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Xunta Pre-doctoral Contract
Ángela Turrero Braojos
- Department
- Physiology
- Area
- Physiology
- Phone
- 881815416
- angela.turrero.braojos [at] usc.es
- Category
- Ministry Pre-doctoral Contract
Víctor Núñez Quintela
- Department
- Physiology
- Area
- Physiology
- victornunez.quintela [at] usc.es
- Category
- Xunta Pre-doctoral Contract
Valentina Gonzalez Alvarez
- Department
- Physiology
- Area
- Physiology
- valentina.gonzalez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Predoutoral Fund. AECC
| Monday | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 11:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Galician, Spanish | Medicine-Classroom 4 |
| 18:30-20:30 | Grupo /CLE_03 | Spanish, Galician | Medicine-Classroom 4 |
| Tuesday | |||
| 10:30-12:30 | Grupo /CLE_02 | Galician, Spanish | Medicine-Classroom 5 |
| 17:30-19:30 | Grupo /CLE_04 | Galician, Spanish | Medicine-Classroom 5 |
| Wednesday | |||
| 11:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Galician, Spanish | Medicine-Classroom 4 |
| 18:30-20:30 | Grupo /CLE_03 | Galician, Spanish | Medicine-Classroom 4 |
| Thursday | |||
| 10:30-12:30 | Grupo /CLE_02 | Galician, Spanish | Medicine-Classroom 5 |
| 17:30-19:30 | Grupo /CLE_04 | Spanish, Galician | Medicine-Classroom 5 |
| Friday | |||
| 11:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Spanish, Galician | Medicine-Classroom 4 |
| 18:30-20:30 | Grupo /CLE_03 | Galician, Spanish | Medicine-Classroom 4 |
| 05.23.2023 09:00-11:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Medicine-Classroom 3 |
| 05.23.2023 09:00-11:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Medicine-Classroom 4 |
| 05.23.2023 09:00-11:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Medicine-Classroom 5 |
| 05.23.2023 09:00-11:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Medicine-Classroom 6 |
| 05.23.2023 09:00-11:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Medicine-Classroom 7 |
| 05.23.2023 09:00-11:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Medicine-Classroom 8 |
| 06.27.2023 12:30-14:30 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Medicine-Classroom 4 |
| 06.27.2023 12:30-14:30 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Medicine-Classroom 5 |
| 06.27.2023 12:30-14:30 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Medicine-Classroom 7 |
| 06.27.2023 12:30-14:30 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Medicine-Classroom 8 |