HUP2032 · Exploring human disease and pathology diagnostics

Overview

The cells and organs of the human body work together to regulate our internal environment; a process known as homeostasis. Despite influences from our external environment, homeostasis ensures that a delicate internal balance is maintained. In this unit, you will be introduced to how dysregulation of these homeostatic mechanisms can lead to the development of disease processes. You will learn about how genetic and environmental risk factors predispose to disease globally, with a particular focus on Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. You will learn how certain triggers initiate disease and how these changes influence cellular and organ structure and function in various human body systems. You will apply your problem-solving skills and diagnostic experience to case-based scenarios to determine disease states.

Areas of study: Human pathology Immunology

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. Explain how risk factors predispose humans to homeostatic dysregulation and the onset of disease;
2. Identify how normal physiological structures change during disease processes;
3. Compare and contrast between normal physiological functions and pathological changes in acute and chronic disease processes;
4. Illustrate how different practical diagnostic techniques are applied to investigate various disease processes;
5. Integrate knowledge of disease and diagnostic techniques to solve pathology-based problems.

Workload

• One 2-hour tutorial per fortnight; • 2 hours of lectures (recorded material) per week; • 3 hours of laboratories (for 10 weeks); • 6 hours of independent study per week (including pre-class and completion of assessment tasks)

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.