Competencies and objectives

 

Course context for academic year 2024-25

La asignatura forma parte del módulo de conocimiento de morfología, estructura y función del cuerpo humano. La asignatura se imparte en el segundo semestre del primer curso del Grado en Medicina. La Fisiología Médica I estudia las bases del funcionamiento de los tejidos excitables, a nivel celular y molecular, utilizando las leyes y principios de la Física y de la Química. Es, por tanto, una asignatura básica, esencial para poder entender el funcionamiento normal del cuerpo humano. Se recomienda para un adecuado aprendizaje de los contenidos de esta asignatura conocer y comprender conceptos desarrollados en la asignatura Fisiología General y Biofísica.

 

 

Course competencies (verified by ANECA in official undergraduate and Master’s degrees) for academic year 2024-25

UA Basic Transversal Competences

  • CT1 : To read and understand texts in English.
  • CT2 : Show computer and information system skills and abilities.
  • CT3 : Show oral and written communication skills.

 

General Competences

  • CG10 : Understand and identify the causative agents and risk factors that induce the states of health and the development of the disease.
  • CG34 : Adopt a critical, creative, constructively sceptical and research-oriented standpoint in professional practice. in professional practice in professional practicein professional practice
  • CG36 : Be able to formulate hypotheses, collect and critically assess information for problem solving, following the scientific method.
  • CG37 : Acquire basic training for research activity.
  • CG7 : Understand and discern the normal structure and function of the human body, at the molecular, cellular, tissue, organic and systems level, in the different stages of life and in both sexes.
  • CG8 : Identify the foundations of normal human behavior and its alterations.
  • CG9 : Understand and recognize the effects, mechanisms and manifestations of the disease on the structure and function of the human body.

 

 

 

Learning outcomes (Training objectives)

GENERAL

1. Learn medical physiology on a scientific basis. Students should master effective and efficient self-study and self-learning strategies. On the basis of the knowledge acquired, students should know what compensatory mechanisms are set in motion in the organism to maintain the constancy of the internal environment. In this sense, the knowledge acquired in Physiology will be the basis for the understanding of Pathophysiology and Pharmacology. 2. Outline on paper and explain orally and comprehensively fundamental physiological mechanisms. 3. Recognise the state of physiological function on the basis of laboratory practical results. Relate the underlying physiological phenomenon(s) to laboratory results of the Nervous and Endocrine systems.

SPECIFIC

1. Identify the processes of transduction, transmission and processing in the different sensory systems. 2. Understand the factors involved in the regulation of body temperature. 3. Identify the cortical motor areas and their function. 4. Describe the role of the cerebellum in the maintenance of balance and posture. 5. Explain the general function of the basal ganglia in the initiation and control of voluntary movement. 6. Understand the higher functions of the nervous system. 7. Describe the sleep state and be able to explain how it is characterised by interruption of consciousness and electroencephalographic signs revealing varying degrees of brain activity. 8. Describe how humans in isolation from external cues maintain an alternating rhythm of sleep and wakefulness. 9. Describe the molecular basis of potentiation and long-term depression at central synapses. 10. Know the importance of stress and what its consequences are. 11. Know the main endocrine axes, their secretions and the biological function of hormones. Understand the mechanisms of regulation of endocrine secretion. 12. Applying their knowledge of the physiology of the endocrine system, the student will be able to explain the consequences of hormonal hypo- or hyperfunction and will be able to describe what mechanisms are put in place to try to maintain homeostasis. The student will know how to assess the function of the endocrine system.

 

 

Specific objectives stated by the academic staff for academic year 2024-25

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General

Code: 27206
Lecturer responsible:
Martínez-Pinna López, Juan Enrique
Credits ECTS: 6,00
Theoretical credits: 1,60
Practical credits: 0,80
Distance-base hours: 3,60

Departments involved

  • Dept: PHYSIOLOGY, GENETICS AND MICROBIOLOGY
    Area: PHYSIOLOGY
    Theoretical credits: 1,6
    Practical credits: 0,8
    This Dept. is responsible for the course.
    This Dept. is responsible for the final mark record.

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