Description
These Courses are foundational introductions to mechanisms of disease and therapy. The Courses consist variably of lectures, introductions, student designated (and scheduled) self-study (DSA), clinical contextual integrations and case-based interactive learning sessions (CIS). Broad topic areas to be emphasized include cellular damage, inflammation and allergy; wound healing and tissue repair, immune system function and dysfunction, pathophysiology of hemodynamic disease, genetic diseases, mechanisms of neoplasia, medical microbiology and its basic applications in infectious disease, environmental, nutritional disorders, an overview of diseases of infancy and childhood and introductory pharmacodynamics and kinetics. Throughout the Courses, the language of medicine is emphasized in conjunction with etiologic mechanisms, clinical features, differential diagnoses, and morphology where appropriate. In addition, important pathologic aspects of clinical laboratory involvement and data utiliz