Course syllabus

Course-PM

SSY180 Medicine for the engineer lp1 HT20 (7.5 hp)

Course is offered by the department of Electrical Engineering

Contact details

Examiner: Sabine Reinfeldt, Associate Professor in Biomedical Engineering at the department of Electrical Engineering. sabine.reinfeldt@chalmers.se

Head lecturer: Fredrik Larsson, PhD med, Molecular and Cellular Biologist at Adherion. fredrik@adherion.se

Lecturers are mainly Medical Doctors who lecture on their specialist competences.

Student representatives:

Ludvig Björk, bjorklu@student.chalmers.se

Christina Chau, chauc@student.chalmers.se

Isabelle Ermeryd Tankred, tankred@student.chalmers.se

Mohammad Al-Fatiawi, hammo740@hotmail.com

Health Resources

In this time of distant teaching, and especially now with the stricter regulations, I would like to remind/inform everyone that there is support to get in case of mental health issues, or just needing someone to talk to.

  • You can always talk to your teacher or examiner, who can guide you further if needed. You are always welcome to contact me.
  • Contact your student counselor. For MPBME, it is Lena Sommarström, and her email address is lenasom@chalmers.se. She can guide you further when needed. On this page, you can find contact persons for different programs.
  • Also look at the useful information at the student portal on Medical Health. You can e.g. find contact details to the student care and what help you can get from them.

Another thing that is very important when sitting at home is to get physical exercise - now more than ever since you don't have to move between lectures or even home-Chalmers. In this link from WHO, you can find some advises and examples of different exercises. 

Course purpose

The aim of this course is to provide you with deeper knowledge about the human body, because as an engineer you must be able to:

  • Develop better and more effective technical solutions for the hospital care and biomedical industry sector.
  • Develop better consumer products in other industrial sectors for a sustainable society and adapted to the human body.
  • Be a better leader of people - understanding work related health issues and environmental impact on health.

This course teaches basic knowledge about the human anatomy and physiology to provide a platform for students whom are going to apply engineering principles in the process to develop health-related products and services for clinical diagnosis and therapy, and for the investigation of the physiological basis of diseases. The learning outcomes of this course are also general knowledge useful for any person to be able to handle issues regarding health hazards and diseases among employees at any workplace.

 

Schedule

TimeEdit

The lectures are all digital. For some of them, videos will be provided on beforehand, and question and answer (QA) sessions will be provided during part of the regular scheduled time. Other lectures are live on Zoom during the scheduled time, and might be recorded and provided to you later. The regular time for lectures is 17.15-20.00.

Observe that the time for the introductory lecture is later than the usual time, and we will start at 17.45.

Month Date   Weekday Topic Live or pre-recorded Lecturer Zoom link
September 2 17.45 Wednesday 17.45: Introduction Live (recorded) Larsson/Reinfeldt
7 17.15 Monday

Q&A for

Pre-recorded

Biochemistry & The cell

Lecture: Pre-recorded 
Q&A: Live (not recorded)

Larsson
10 17.15 Thursday

Q&A for

Pre-recorded

Tissues

Lecture: Pre-recorded 
Q&A: Live (not recorded)

Larsson
14 17.15 Monday Blood, lymph,  Immune system Lecture: Live Johansson
17 17.15 Thursday

Live + Pre-recorded

Cardiovascular system I

Lecture: Live 17.15-19:00 + Pre-recorded material to be watched before lecture! Johansson
21 18.30 Monday

Q&A for
Pre-recorded

Cardiovascular system II

Lecture: Pre-recorded Johansson
24 17.15 Thursday Live Cardiovascular system III Lecture: Live Johansson
28 17.15 Monday Live: Respiratory system Lecture: Live Örtenwall
October 1 17.15 Thursday Live: Gastrointestinal system Lecture: Live Örtenwall

 

5 17.15 Monday in reserve
8 17.15 Thursday Live: Musculoskeletal system I Lecture: Live Örtenwall

 

12 17.15 Monday in reserve
15 18.15 Thursday

Pre-recorded
Musculoskeletal system II

Lecture: Pre-recorded

Q&A: (Live (not recorded))

Örtenwall
19 17.15 Monday in reserve
22 17.15 Thursday in reserve
26     Exam part A, 8.30-12.30

 

Time
Weekday Topic Live or pre-recorded
Lecturer Zoom link
November 2 Monday

Pre-recorded:

Urinary system I

Lecture: Pre-recorded 
Q&A: November 5 th
Peeker -
5 17.15 Thursday

Q&A for Urinary system I & II

Pre-recorded:

Urinary system II

Lecture: Pre-recorded 
Q&A: 17:15 Live (not recorded)

Peeker

 

 

9 18.00 Monday

Pre-recorded:

CNS I

Lecture: Pre-recorded 
Q&A: 18:00 Live (not recorded)
Hallén

 

12 19.00 Thursday

Pre-recorded:

CNS II

Lecture: Pre-recorded 
Q&A: 19:00 Live (not recorded)
Hallén

 

16 19.00 Monday

Pre-recorded:

CNS III

Lecture: Pre-recorded 
Q&A: 19:00 Live (not recorded)
Hallén

 

 

19 Thursday PNS Lecture: Pre-recorded  Hallén
23 18.00 Monday (Sensory organs)

Lecture: Pre-recorded 

Q&A: 18:00 Live (not recorded)

Hallén

 

26 Thursday Endocrine system I Lecture: Pre-recorded  Johansson
30 17.00 Monday Endocrine system II

Q&A: Endocrine I & Lecture: Live Endocrine II (recorded)

 

Johansson
December 3 17.15 Thursday Skin, Genital system Lecture: Live Johansson



7 17.15 Monday Pregnancy and birth Lecture: Live Johansson
10 17.05 Thursday Hearing implants / Neural control of
bionic prostheses and neuro-
rehabilitation from pain
Lectures: live Reinfeldt/Ortiz

Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://chalmers.zoom.us/j/64715017958
    Password: 977505

17.05-17.50: Ortiz

18.05-18.50: Reinfeldt

14 17.15 Monday cancelled!
17 17.15 Thursday Biomedical engineers Lecture: live Kanderhag & Nadum

17:15 – 17:45
https://zoom.us/j/97550927561?pwd=SHpmeU10NVRrV2kvNzNwQ2ZiOFgyUT09

Meeting ID: 975 5092 7561
Passcode: C1aGMN

17:45 – 18:15
https://zoom.us/j/91380999061?pwd=NXJkS2hkQnNhTnQvZGFIWUV5R1VYZz09

Meeting ID: 913 8099 9061
Passcode: p2A6mA

18:15 – 18:45
https://zoom.us/j/96175526834?pwd=bnlhRlZyNFB3dWg0bG1GcUpxbzVmQT09

Meeting ID: 961 7552 6834
Passcode: h61ZgX

18:45 – 19:15
https://zoom.us/j/99088371528?pwd=L1JnS1NHaXo0bkkrQ3VIUFBvZTJRUT09

Meeting ID: 990 8837 1528
Passcode: 5ERKDC

19:15 – 19:45
https://zoom.us/j/96098343350?pwd=ek9sZXA1MVNDNHNTRWhDREJDOXcvUT09

Meeting ID: 960 9834 3350
Passcode: seiFR2

21 17.15 Monday in reserve
January 2021 15     Exam part B, 8.30-12.30

"In reserve" means that we only use the session in case we had to postpone a previous lecture. Please look at the course homepage for the latest updates. We will announce if a lecture is postponed/cancelled via the homepage, so please introduce the habit of entering the homepage before each lecture.

Course literature

Course book:

Introduction to the Human Body, 10th or 11th Edition,

Gerard J. Tortora, Bryan H. Derrickson

Wiley & Sons: ISBN-13: 978-1118963531; ISBN-10: 1118963539

Available at Cremona for 599 SEK.

E-book available at http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-EHEP003215.html

Reading references

Chap

Subject

Pg: 8th edition

Pg: 9th edition

Pg: 10th edition

Pg: 11th edition

2

Biochemistry

22-40

25-44

22-40

21-39

3

Cells

44-62, 65-67

48-65; 69-72

41-58; 61-64

40-56; 61-63

4

Tissue

73-94

78-99

68-87 (4.1-4.7)

67-88 (4.1-4.7)

5

The integumentary system

100-108

106-114

92-100 (5.1-5.3)

93-101 (5.1-5.3)

6

Skeletal system

118-129

124-135

107-116

111-121 (6.1-6.5)

7

Joints

164-176

177-188

154-163

156-165 (7.1-7.6)

8

Muscular system

184-199

197-213

170-184

173-188 (8.1-8.8)

9

Nervous tissue

237-251

252-265

220-233

222-236

10

CNS

255-276

271-293

236-256 (10.1-10.5)

238-259 (10.1-10-5)

11

ANS

284-290

301-307

261-266 (11.1-11.2)

265-270 (11.1-11.2)

12

Senses

297-321

314-338

271-293 (12.1-12.7)

276-302 (12.1-12.7)

13

Endocrine system

328-346

346-365

299-317 (13.1-13.8)

305-325 (13.1-13.8)

14

Blood

357-371

377-390

326-338

333-347

15

Heart

377-391

397-412

342-355 (15.1-15.7)

350-366

16

Blood vessels

398-406

420-428

360-369 (16.1-16.3)

369-395 (16.1-16.3)

17

Lymphatic & immune system

432-452

454-473

391-407 (17.1-17.3)

405-422 (17.1-17-3)

18

Respiratory system

459-479

482-502

415-433 (18.1-18.6)

429-449 (18.1-18.7)

19

Digestive system

486-510

511-536

440-461

455-480 (19.1-19.10)

20

Metabolism & Nutrition

524-532

551-559

474-482 (20.2-20.3)

487-495 (20.1-20.2)

21

Urinary system

538-552

566-581

485-498 (21.1-21.4)

503-518 (21.1-21.4)

22

Fluid balance

558-562

588-592

503-507 (22.1)

523-527 (22.1)

23

Reproduction system

571-588

602-621

515-533 (23.1-23.3)

535-553 (23.1-23.3)

24

Development and inheritance

600-616

634-650

544-557 (24.1-24.6)

565-579 (24.1-24.6)

Generally each chapter ends with a paragraph about Aging and that is not included in course content!

 

Complimentary course material:

For handouts see course home page (Canvas).

 

Course design

The course mainly consists of lectures where experts for each area talks. There is also a chance to collect bonus points to the exams.

After each lecture, your task is to construct one exam question related to that lecture. You can do this at maximum 10 lectures per quarter and get 0.5 bonus point for each question to use for the exam the same quarter. Hence you can get in total 10 bonus points for the whole course. Some of the questions may appear in the exams.

The bonus points can only be used if you managed the passing limit on your own. The bonus points are only available during this year (including the re-exams in April and in August).

Changes made since the last occasion

The lectures are all given in Zoom.

Learning objectives and syllabus

Learning objectives:

  • describe which basic systems build up the human body and how they interact;
  • describe each system from both anatomical and physiological point of view;
  • describe the origin, symptoms and treatment of common disorders;
  • describe how the concept of homeostasis apply to each system.

Link to the syllabus on Studieportalen.  Study plan

Examination form

A written exam after each quarter, Part A and Part B, must be passed.
The grade is determined by the sum of the two exams, but each of the two must passed with at least grade three.

Maximum points in each exam is 40. Limits for grades 3, 4 and 5 are 20, 27 and 34, respectively.

The final grade is calculated by adding the two passed exams' points - maximum 80 points. Limits for grades 3, 4 and 5 are 40, 54 and 68 points, respectively.

Bonus points can only be used for already passed exams, hence they are only included if you have at least 20 points on the exam. Bonus points are only counted this academic year 2020/21.

Exams:

Part A

Exam

26 October 2020 8.30-12.30

Part B

Exam

15 January 2021 8.30-12.30

Re-exam Part A and B

8 April 2021 14-18

Re-exam Part A and B

18 August 2021 14-18

Course summary:

Date Details Due