Medical Neuroscience
Total Contact Hours:
80.70 hours
Course Director:
John C. Pearson, Ph.D., Professor, Neuroscience, Cell Biology, and Physiology, and Psychiatry
Description:
This course is all about the human nervous system: how it is structured; how it works; what happens when it does not; and how physicians identify lesions from diagnostic studies, history, and physical findings.
Learning Goals, Assessment, Practice, and Teaching and Learning Activities, and their Integration with the Institutional Educational Objectives:
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What does our institution want our graduates to do? |
If your students mastered the content of your course, what would they be able to do? |
What will students need to do for them and others (peers, professors) to know whether they have achieved this specific learning goal? |
How will students get the information they need to learn? |
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1. Institutional Objectives |
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Given a case vignette, determine neurological diagnosis of brain disorders by applying knowledge of normal cell and tissue structure and function, including synaptic transmission brain metabolism and homeostasis, cerebrospinal fluid formation and circulation, and the blood-brain-barrier. |
MCQ Exam TBL IRAT/GRAT Online Neuroanatomy Quiz |
Exam question bank TBL GAPP Neuroanatomy GAPPs TA Q&A Review sessions |
Live lectures Online tutorials Neuroanatomy labs Clinical case sessions Electronic programs Textbook readings Notepack |
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Given a case vignette, determine the diagnosis of embryonic or fetal disorders by applying knowledge of embryonic development, fetal maturation, and perinatal changes of the human nervous system. |
MCQ Exam Neuropathology GAPPs |
Exam question bank |
Live lectures Clinical case sessions TA Q&A Review sessions |
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Given a case vignette, determine the diagnosis of spinal cord or brain stem disorders by applying knowledge of the structure and function of peripheral nerves and spinal cord, including spinal reflexes, brainstem, cranial nerves and nuclei, reticular formation, mechanisms of consciousness, gross anatomy and blood supply. |
MCQ Exam TBL IRAT/GRAT Online Neuroanatomy Quiz |
Exam question bank TBL GAPP Neuroanatomy GAPPs TA Q&A Review sessions |
Live lectures Online tutorials Neuroanatomy labs Clinical case sessions Electronic programs Textbook readings Notepack |
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Given a case vignette, determine the diagnosis of brain hemispheric disorders by applying knowledge of the structure and function of the brain, including the gross anatomy, blood supply, cognition, language-use, memory and control of eye movement. |
MCQ Exam TBL IRAT/GRAT Online Neuroanatomy Quiz |
Exam question bank TBL GAPP Neuroanatomy GAPPs TA Q&A Review sessions |
Live lectures Online tutorials Neuroanatomy labs Clinical case sessions Electronic programs Textbook readings Notepack |
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Given a case vignette, determine the diagnosis of sensory disorders by applying knowledge of the structure and function of sensory systems, including pathways involved in proprioception, pain transmission and modulation, vision, hearing, balance, taste and olfaction. |
MCQ Exam TBL IRAT/GRAT Online Neuroanatomy Quiz |
Exam question bank TBL GAPP Neuroanatomy GAPPs TA Q&A Review sessions |
Live lectures Online tutorials Neuroanatomy labs Clinical case sessions Electronic programs Textbook readings Notepack |
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Given a case vignette, determine the diagnosis of motor disorders by applying knowledge of the structure and function of motor systems, including motor neurons arising from the spinal cord and brainstem, descending motor pathways arising from the brainstem and cerebral cortex, the basal ganglia and the cerebellum. |
MCQ Exam TBL IRAT/GRAT Online Neuroanatomy Quiz |
Exam question bank TBL GAPP Neuroanatomy GAPPs Electrophysiological demonstration ARS questions TA Q&A Review sessions |
Live lectures Online tutorials Neuroanatomy labs Clinical case sessions Electronic programs Textbook readings Notepack Electrophysiological demonstration |
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Given a case vignette of a patient with a degenerative disease, identify mechanisms underlying nervous tissue repair and regeneration, including changes associated with stages of life. |
MCQ Exam TBL IRAT/GRAT |
Exam question bank TBL GAPP Neuroanatomy GAPPs TA Q&A Review sessions |
Live lecture Neuroanatomy labs |
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Given a case vignette of a patient with a major nervous system pathogenic disorder (infectious, inflammatory/ imunological, traumatic, neoplastic, vascular, congenital/ perinatal, toxic/metabolic and paroxysmal disorders), identify the clinical and histopathologic features, pathogenesis, anatomical context, natural history and prognosis. |
MCQ Exam TBL IRAT/GRAT Neuropathology GAPPs |
Exam question bank |
Live lectures Online tutorials Clinical case sessions Textbook readings Notepack |
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Given a case vignette of patient who needs or has been given a therapeutic agent for a nervous system disorder, sedation, or pain management, identify mechanisms of action, common uses, contraindications, adverse effects, and potential drug-drug interactions. |
MCQ Exam TBL IRAT/GRAT Neuropathology GAPPs |
Exam question bank TBL GAPP |
Live lectures Online tutorials Clinical case sessions Textbook readings Notepack |
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Given a case vignette, diagnose common neurologic diseases by interpreting physical findings and histopathologic results. |
MCQ Exam TBL IRAT/GRAT Neuropathology GAPPs |
Exam question bank TBL GAPP Neuroanatomy GAPPs |
Live lectures Online tutorials Clinical case sessions Textbook readings Notepack |
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Given a case vignette, diagnose brain death by integrating neuroscience principles, clinical findings and legal precedent relevant to the diagnosis. |
MCQ Exam Online Neuroanatomy Quiz |
Neuroanatomy GAPPs |
Live lectures Neuroanatomy Labs Textbook readings Notepack |
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Solve complex clinical problems through discussions with peers. |
TBL IRAT/GRAT Online Neuroanatomy Quiz Neuropathology GAPPs |
Exam question bank TA Q&A Review sessions TBL GAPP Neuroanatomy GAPPs |
Live lectures Online tutorials Clinical case sessions Textbook readings Notepack |
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Support their working teams through adequate preparation, punctuality, distributed leadership and creation of a positive, encouraging atmosphere. |
TBL IRAT/GRAT Neuropathology GAPPs TBL peer feedback at end of Term 1 Term 1 Exam |
TBL GAPP Neuroanatomy GAPPs |
Clinical case sessions |
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