Physiology syllabus in Russia, Other CIS & Eastern Europe

Physiology syllabus in Russia, Other CIS & Eastern Europe

• Subject: Human Physiology AKA Normal physiology
• Semesters: 2-3
• Tentative hours of lectures: 36 hours
• Tentative hours of practicals: 72 hours
• Exam: after 2 semesters
• Emphasis on the CIS syllabi: It’s wise to emphasize that this Curriculum/syllabus is tentative & the subject’s distribution or teaching hours or exams might vary in different universities and CIS. 

Brief description of the course

• Formation of student’s knowledge about the basic laws of functioning of the organism of the healthy man and mechanisms of regulation of physiological systems.
• General physiology/ elementary physiological processes – which study general properties of an alive matter, processes of excitation and braking, functional features of excitable structures, muscles, secretion.
• Neurohumoral regulation of physiological functions – study general physiology CNS, functions of neuron, a feature of the distribution of excitation and braking in CNS, physiology of independent nervous system, humoral regulation of physiological functions.
• The bases of ability to live – will be considered power and basic exchange, physiological bases of a feed, thermal balance, regulation of temperature of a body.
• The system mechanisms of behavior – will be investigated general principles of organization of behavior, labor activity of the man, physiology of analyzers, physiology of memory, emotions, mental activity, physiology of dream, adaptation, biological rhythms.

Objectives:

1. To generate system knowledge about the ability of the whole organism of the man to live in interrelation with an environment and mechanisms of regulation of physiological systems of an organism;
2. To impart to the students physiological and clinical thinking;
3. To acquaint with experience of a statement of research experiment;
4. To learn to judgment and interpretation of the data, received in an experiment, and explanation of the observable facts, phenomena, and their causally -investigation mutual relation;
5. To train to methods of an estimation of a functional condition of the organism and its systems;
6. To train to principles of work with the clinicodiagnostic equipment.

Educational methods:

• Lectures: survey, problematic.
• Practice: performance of practical works on a theme (experimental researches on animals, development of clinic-physiological techniques), work with the equipment, tables, atlases, decision of situation tasks, the performance of the test tasks, work in small groups, team-based learning (TBL), discussion of results of research, registration of the protocols.
• Students’ individual work: work with the literature, preparation of presentations, and thematic abstracts.

Lectures: topics & number of hours

Practical classes: topics & number of hours

Interim assessments (Controls) & Exam

• Interim assessment (Chapter-wise controls) : MCQs + situational tasks & Viva 
• Final exam: Viva, situational tasks +/- MCQs

Sample Control & Exam questions

Scores

• The score ranges from 5 to 1:
  • 5 is “excellent” → Otlichno
  • 4 is “good” → Khorosho
  • 3 is “satisfactory” → Udovletvoritel’no
  • 2 is “unsatisfactory” → Neudovletvoritel’no

Reference textbooks

1. GuytonJ.E.Hall.Medical Physiology. by W.B.Saunders company, 2003.-1064p.
2. William F.Ganong.Review of medical physiology. New York: Mc Graw-Hill, 2003.-912p.
3. Normal physiology: textbook / Orlov R.S., Nozdrachev A.D. – 2nd ed., Revised. and add. 2010 .– 832 p
4. A.J.Vander. Human physiology: the mechanisms of body function/New York: Mc Graw-Hill Publishing Company,1990/-724p.

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