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...
- Logistics
- Library Plagiarism Tutorial (See Week 1
for details(
- I did it over the weekend. It was very good, but took me longer than expected.
- It contained errors about citations using APA styl (Author, Year).
[Reference style was correct.]
- Addendum to the Week 1 outline reflects
comments, lecture, and materials from last Th.. Click here
if you want to see the Addendum.
- Introduction to Pathology (Lectures) -- I began this lecture this
past Thursday. Here's copy of my lecture outline:
- Define the following terms: anatomy, physiology, pathology, epidemiology, pathophysiology.
- Pathology can be studied at multiple levels (Social > individual
> cellular > biochemical > molecular)
- Name the three general types of causal factors.
- What is an agent?
- What are the three types of disease causing agents?
- List [the four main] types of biological agents.
- List the [three] types of physical agents.
- List the [four] types of chemical agents.
- What is a host factor?
- What is an environmental factor?
- List four types of environmental factors.
- What is "causal interaction"? How does this related to multi-causality.
- Physiologic systems (discuss form and function) - integument, respiratory,
cardiovascular, endocrine / metabolic, nervous, digestive, urinary,
reproductive, sense organs, immune, have I fogotten any?
- Learning pathology
- General pathology: disease processes
- inflammation (the body's response to injury -- physical
signs, molecular processes)
- infection -- infectious disease process: agent, reservoir,
portals, transmission, host factors
- tumor -- oncogensis (host and environmental factors)
- trauma -- physical, chemical, biological
- System pathology -- each body system dysfunctions in a particular
way
- Building knowledge (see article by Underwood, 2004, p. 8)
- 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.
- HW
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.
- Make sure last week's assignments are completed (Library tutorial,
Pathology reading, APA style reference printout)
Thursday 9/8/05 Addendum
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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.
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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)