Week 2 MUSE (9/6 & 9/8) -- 9/8 update

This will be the last time I print the weekly outline for you. In future, you must get this online (www.sjsu.edu/faculty/gerstman/muse). Please check the course  website at least twice per week to get this information. Thank you. ...BBG...

  1. Logistics
    1. Library Plagiarism Tutorial  (See Week 1 for details( 
      1. I did it over the weekend. It was very good, but took me longer than expected. 
      2. It contained errors about citations using APA styl (Author, Year). [Reference style was correct.]
    2. Addendum to the Week 1 outline reflects comments, lecture, and materials from last Th.. Click here if you want to see the Addendum.
  2. Introduction to Pathology (Lectures) -- I began this lecture this past Thursday. Here's copy of my lecture outline:
    1. Define the following terms: anatomy, physiology, pathology, epidemiology, pathophysiology. 
    2. Pathology can be studied at multiple levels (Social > individual > cellular > biochemical > molecular)
    3. Name the three general types of causal factors.
    4. What is an agent? 
    5. What are the three types of disease causing agents? 
    6. List [the four main] types of biological agents.
    7. List the [three] types of physical agents.
    8. List the [four] types of chemical agents.
    9. What is a host factor? 
    10. What is an environmental factor?
    11. List four types of environmental factors.
    12. What is "causal interaction"? How does this related to multi-causality. 
    13. Physiologic systems (discuss form and function) - integument, respiratory, cardiovascular, endocrine / metabolic, nervous, digestive, urinary, reproductive, sense organs, immune, have I fogotten any?
    14. Learning pathology
      1. General pathology: disease processes
        1. inflammation (the body's response to injury -- physical signs, molecular processes)
        2. infection -- infectious disease process: agent, reservoir, portals, transmission, host factors
        3. tumor -- oncogensis (host and environmental factors)
        4. trauma -- physical, chemical, biological
      2. System pathology -- each body system dysfunctions in a particular way 
    15. Building knowledge (see article by Underwood, 2004, p. 8) 
  3. Underwood (2004) Questions about reading assignment:  --full reference for last week's handout is Underwood, J. C. E. (2004). Chapter 1: Introduction to pathology in General and systematic Pathology. London: Churchill Livingstone. 
  4. HW
    1. Scan pp. 107 - 471 in your  text (Rosen, 1993) to see if something catches your fancy. Read pp. 53 - 105 as background to our research.
    2. Make sure last week's assignments are completed (Library tutorial, Pathology reading, APA style reference printout)

Thursday 9/8/05 Addendum 

  1. I mentioned that we should start thinking about the midterm. It is currently scheduled for 10/25, but it may be a good idea to move it up so that we can limit the amount of material on the test to material covered so far. No precise date for a move was given, but we should be thinking in terms of 3 or so weeks from now. Study groups will be formed. 

  2. Reading tips

q       Read to learn (not just to fulfill an obligation); read for comprehension rather than speed

q       Stay focused and read in small portions

q       Look up words that you do not understand (medical dictionary, medical reference, regular dictionary)

q       Make notes as you read -- highlight sparsely, and with care; write in margins; write questions on post-its or index cards; use arrows, diagrams, timelines and other visuals to aid memory

q       Keep your place accurately (use sticky notes)

q       Tie the reading you just did to one other thing that you know already (This could be something you did previously in that same class; something that you know from another class; something from your own life (this last point seemed to strike a cord with the class)

q       Review what you�ve read a few hours or a day after reading it to test comprehension -- i

q       Read for details (the main ideas will come by themselves) 

q       Think for yourself (you are not kids anymore)