ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 99 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 24 Interactive Classroom: 24 Total: 150
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Physiology
Areas: Physiology
Center Faculty of Optics and Optometry
Call: First Semester
Teaching: Sin docencia (Extinguida)
Enrolment: No Matriculable | 1st year (Yes)
The objectives are:
1) Knowledge of the structure and normal functions of the organism and of the organs and systems that integrate it, mostly those related to the visual system
2) General knowledge of the molecular, biochemical and cellular mechanisms that allow the maintenance of the homeostasis, especially those regarding the visual system
Prof. ROMÁN PÉREZ (25 hours of theoretical lessons):
Cellular physiology: regulation and communication. Internal medium
General principles of the endocrine system
Gastrointestinal and urinary systems
Prof. OLGA BARCA MAYO (13 hours of theoretical lessons):
General physiology of the excitable cells: Bioelectrical properties of the membrane. - Ionic Channels. - Action Potential.
Neuron: Synapse and synaptic potentials. Membrane receptors. Neurotransmitters.
Channels of the motor end plate: neuromuscular transmission.
Autonomous nervous system.
Skeletal, smooth and cardiac muscles: general properties and mechanisms of contraction
Textbook of Medical Physiology. Arthur C Guyton. McGraw-Hill-Interamericana
Medical Physiology. Rodney A Rhoades. Masson-Little Brown
Medical Physiology. Boron & Boulpaep. Saunders
Principles of Neuroscience. E. R. Kandel, J. H. Schwartz, T. M. Jessell. McGraw Hill.
Complementary bibliography
Manual de Neurociencia. JM Delgado. Ed. Síntesis. Madrid
Neuroscience. Purves et al. Panamericana
Fundamental Neuroscience. L. R. Squire et al. Elsevier.
Basic skills.
BS1 - That students have demonstrated to possess and understand knowledge in an area of study that starts from the base of general secondary education, and is usually found at a level that, although supported by advanced textbooks, also includes some aspects that imply knowledge coming from the vanguard of their field of study.
BS2 - That students know how to apply their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional manner and possess the skills that are usually demonstrated through the elaboration and defense of arguments and the resolution of problems within their area of study.
BS3 - That students have the ability to gather and interpret relevant data (usually within their area of study) to make judgments that include a reflection on relevant issues of social, scientific or ethical nature.
BS4 - That students can transmit information, ideas, problems and solutions to a specialized and non-specialized public.
BS5 - That the students have developed those learning skills necessary to undertake further studies with a high degree of autonomy.
Specific competences
SC1 - That the student be able to critically reflect on clinical, scientific, ethical and social issues involved in the professional practice of Optometry, understanding the scientific foundations of Optics-Optometry and learning to critically evaluate terminology, clinical trials and research methodology related to Optics-Optometry.
SC2 - That the student can assess and incorporate the technological advances necessary for the proper development of their professional activity.
SC3 - That the student can expand and update their capacities for professional practice through continuous training.
SC4 - That the student knows how to situate the new information and the interpretation of it in its context.
Transversal competences
TC1 - That they acquire analysis and synthesis capacity.
TC2 - That they acquire capacity for organization and planning.
TC3 - That they acquire the knowledge of a foreign language.
TC4 - That they acquire computer skills related to the field of study.
TC5 - That they acquire information management capacity.
TC6 - That they acquire the ability to solve problems.
TC7 - That they acquire skills in decision making.
TC8 - That they know how to work as a team.
Scenario 1
Face-to-face lessons: physical class attendance, 3 times per week, during the first semester. In the theoretical lessons, student participation will be encouraged, as well as their critical spirit.
Seminars / Interactive Classes: These classes will be compulsory. Topics will be presented to deepen the concepts previously exposed in the theoretical lessons. Students are expected to actively participate.
Scenario 2
Face-to-face lessons: physical class attendance, 3 times per week, during the first semester that will alternate with online teaching to reduce the physical attendance to 50%. In the theoretical lessons, student participation will be encouraged, as well as their critical spirit.
Seminars / Interactive Classes: These classes will be compulsory. The physical attendance to seminars will be replaced by online content and tasks through the virtual classroom of the USC.
Scenario 3
Face-to-face lessons: Online resources will be used, mainly through the USC virtual classroom. Teaching material will be uploaded to the platform, and tests or forums will be created to facilitate the study and understand the content of the subject.
Seminars / Interactive Classes: These classes will be compulsory. The physical attendance to seminars will be replaced by online content and tasks through the virtual classroom of the USC.
Tutorized activities.
Students can request tutoring whenever they require it, by previously contacting the professors via email. Students are recommended to use the tutorized activities.
These assessment criteria will be valid for both the ordinary semester and extraordinary recovery opportunities.
The General Physiology exam will be carried out on a date and time previously established by the Faculty of Optics and Optometry.
The exam will be done by physical attendance (Scenario 1) or using the online platform that the USC approves if due to health conditions it is not possible to conduct it in person (Scenario 2 and 3).
The final exam will consist of a multiple-choice test. The number of questions from each professor will be equal or proportional to the number of hours of theoretical lessons. The course is indivisible and is passed or failed in its entirety. The exam will constitute 80% of the final grade. It will be necessary to obtain 60% of total successes in the exam and a minimum of 40% of successes in the questions posed by each professor in order to sum the scores obtained in the continuous evaluation.
The attendance to classroom or online classes and the realization of academic activities proposed through the virtual classroom, will sum 20% of the final grade, provided that the minimum required in the final exam is reached.
Newly enrolled students who do not carry out the activity related to the proposed seminars will not be evaluated.
Class assistance and 3 weekly hours of study
• Assistance to lectures
• To check the recommended bibliography in the library
• Use the material from the virtual classroom
• Make use of the tutorials
• Do the activities proposed through the virtual classroom.
Contingency Plan
Scenario 2
Face-to-face lessons: physical class attendance, 3 times per week, during the first semester that will alternate with online teaching to reduce the physical attendance to 50%. In the theoretical lessons, student participation will be encouraged, as well as their critical spirit.
Seminars / Interactive Classes: These classes will be compulsory. The physical attendance to seminars will be replaced by online content and tasks through the virtual classroom of the USC.
Evaluation. Final exam, preferably in person (80% of the final grade). Activities proposed in the virtual classroom (20% of the final grade as long as the minimum required for the exam are reached). Students who do not carry out the proposed activities related to the practical lessons and seminars will not be evaluated.
Scenario 3
Face-to-face lessons: Online resources will be used, mainly through the USC virtual classroom. Teaching material will be uploaded to the platform, and tests or forums will be created to facilitate the study and understand the content of the subject.
Seminars / Interactive Classes: These classes will be compulsory. The physical attendance to seminars will be replaced by online content and tasks through the virtual classroom of the USC.
Evaluation. Online final exam (80% of the final grade). Activities proposed through the virtual classroom (20% of the final grade as long as the minimum required for the exam are reached). Students who do not carry out the proposed activities related to practices and seminars will not be evaluated.
For any problem, comment or suggestion regarding the development of teaching contact the subject coordinator:
olga.barca.mayo [at] usc.es (olga[dot]barca[dot]mayo[at]usc[dot]es)
CIMUS, Oficina 6, Planta SS, Avenida de Barcelona s/n, Santiago de Compostela
Roman Perez Fernandez
- Department
- Physiology
- Area
- Physiology
- Phone
- 881815421
- roman.perez.fernandez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
Olga Barca Mayo
Coordinador/a- Department
- Physiology
- Area
- Physiology
- olga.barca.mayo [at] usc.es
- Category
- Researcher: Ramón y Cajal
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