DEADLINE

Week 6

ASSESSMENT

MCQ test

Examination  

WEIGHTING

30%

70%

Lecture No:

Lecturer

Topic

1-2

BAG

Introduction to the module: aims and learning outcomes
Diagnostic pathology and clinical laboratory medicine; distinguishing health from disease, concept of normality and classification of disease. Interpreting biochemical data (precision, accuracy and quality control/assurance, statistical testing). Understanding absolute, relative and attributable risk

Pathologies

      3-4

BAG

Diabetes mellitus: carbohydrate metabolism

5-6

BAG

Metabolic and respiratory acid base disorders

7-8

BE

Kidney disease, acute and chronic renal failure

9-10

BM

Liver disease: acute and chronic liver failure, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), non-alcoholic steato-hepatitis (NASH)

11-12

BAG

Cardiovascular diseases and cardio-metabolic risk

13-14

MDR

Gastro-intestinal and pancreatic disease

15-16

SAL-N

Bone disease

Interim EXAM

    BAG

MCQ test - (covering lectures 1-16)

17-19 

20-21

 
    22-25  
    26-28

   29-30 
   
   31-34

BAG 

JKL

     
     NA 
     tbc

 

tbc 

SMOH & NP

Endocrine disease; thyroid, adrenal, pituitary and gonads 
Congenital disease: inborn errors of metabolism: Amino acid and carbohydrate metabolism 
Diseases of the immune system 
Diseases of the blood: RBC and WBC pathology and clotting disorders

Reducing metabolic risk associated with pathology  (Diabetes, CVD, NAFLD, GI, Bone) 
Therapeutic lifestyle changes: diet, exercise and weight loss strategies 

Drugs/Pharmacology

35 
36-37

BE

Drug-nutrient interactions 
Revision of module