Name of Course: General Pathology

Name of course: General Pathology

Season and Year: Winter 2013

Course number: MIPA 52125

Quarter: second

Fed Credit hours: 5

Lecture contact hours/week: 5

Lab contact hours/week: 0

Units: 6

Lecture hrs/week: 5

Prerequisites: PHYS5112 (Fund Phys)

Catalogue description: General cellular and tissue alterations common to all processes of disease. including: cell injury and cell death; inflammation and repair; fluid and hemodynamic derangements; hemopoeitic diseases. Diseases of the immune system.including: systemic diseases and infectious diseases; environmental effects.

Instructor’s name: Robert Cooperstein, MA, DC

Office hours and contact information: office 212, drop-in hours 6:30-7:30each morning except Wednesday; Thurs 12:30-1:30appt; E-mail

Check Chiropraxis.com for updates. call 408 944 6009

Required texts: Introduction to General Pathology, Cooperstein

Required materials and/or other reading: supplemental packet of illustrations to be handed out

Recommended texts: Robbins Pathologic Basis of Disease, Robbins et al Pathology

Facilities/Equipment: Transparencies used, most but not all available in course packet.

Relevant web pages: for gross and histologic pathology. Path notes:

Description of teaching methods: Lecture format.

Outside learning activities: The student is expected to accomplish the reading assignments on this syllabus.

Description of learner evaluation methods: multiple choice examinations

Grading procedure:

2 midterms and final. The best two grades are weighted 40% each, and the lowest 20%.
Grading: >90%=A, >80%=B, >70%=C, >60%=R, <60%=F
Questions during written tests are limited to apparent typographical errors.
The key to written examinations may be reviewed on request, within 2 weeks of a midterm exam or within the first two weeks of the quarter following a final examination.
Grading: >90%=A, >80%=B, >70%=C, >60%=R, <60%=F
R and I grades must be made up during first three days of the following quarter, as per college policies. If the attempt is unsuccessful, the grade will be converted to an F at that time.
Grades will be posted at chiropraxis.com, barring technical problems. Not responsible for typos there.
The college’s Incomplete policy in part reads as follows: The instructor will specify course requirements that must be repeated if the grade earned on any major evaluative procedure was less than a C.
Midterms: test 1 May 5 or 6 (TBA), up to wound healing.Test 2 June 7 or 9 (TBA), covers immune system only. The final will cover congenital/genetic disorders and neoplasm.

Student conduct and class policies: Food, drinks, pets not allowed in classroom.

Student conduct and college policies: This course abides by PCCW policies. Please refer to the current PCCW student handbook for further details.

Course goals:

1. Define in broad terms the parameters of health and disease, with special emphasis on their meaning for and within the chiropractic community.

2. Describe the general cellular and tissue alterations that are common to most processes of diseases.

3. Provide a pathophysiological explanation, on an introductory level, of the major categories of disease, emphasizing processes germane to a multitude of organ systems.

Course Objectives:

Identify each of the following:

(a) theelements of cellular pathology, injury and death

(b) the key components of the inflammatory process

(c) thecomponents of the innate and adaptative divisions of the immune system, including pathological developments (hypersensitivity, immunodeficiency, autoimmunity)

(d) types and examples of tissue regeneration and repair

(d) categories and examples of congenital and genetic diseases

(e) the causes and defining aspects of types of neoplasm

Course lecture schedule by week and topic: (approximate) (Intro to Gen Path = IGP)

Week 1

Lecture topic: Pathophysiology; Cell structure IGP 1-5

Week 2

Lecture topic: Reversible cell pathology; Irreversible cell pathology

Week 3

Lecture topic: Morphology of cell damage; The acute inflammatory response IGP 6-7

Week 4

Lecture topic: Chronic inflammation; Wound healing IGP 8

Week 5

Lecture topic: The adaptative system of immunity IGP 9-10

Week 6

Lecture topic The adaptative system of immunity(cont); Immunopathology

Week 7

Lecture topic: Hemodynamic disorders, including anemiasIGP 11

Week 8

Lecture topic: Errors of morphogenesis; Congenital disorders IGP 12-16

Week 9

Lecture topic: Cytogenetic abnormalities Single-gene defects

Week 10

Lecture topic: Multifactorial inheritance; Neoplasm IGP 17

Syllabus may be amended in writing: The information in this syllabus is subject to change in extenuating circumstances. Changes will be provided to the student in writing prior to the event.