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SSY180 Medicine for the engineer lp1 HT19 (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.

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

Month	Date	Weekday	Topic	Lecturer
September	4	Wednesday	Introduction/Biochemistry	Larsson/Reinfeldt
	9	Monday	The cell	Larsson
	12	Thursday	Tissues	Larsson
	16	Monday	Blood, lymph,  Immune system	Johansson
	19	Thursday	Cancelled!
	23	Monday	Cardiovascular system	Hornestam
	26	Thursday	Cardiovascular system	Hornestam
	30	Monday	Endocrine system	Johansson
October	3	Thursday	Endocrine system	Johansson
	7	Monday	Respiratory system	Örtenwall
	10	Thursday	in reserve
	14	Monday	Gastrointestinal system	Örtenwall
	17	Thursday	Skin, Genital system	Johansson
	21	Monday	Musculoskeletal system	Örtenwall
	24	Thursday	Musculoskeletal system	Örtenwall
	28		Exam part A, 8.30-12.30

		Weekday	Topic	Lecturer
November	4	Monday	Urinary system	Peeker
	7	Thursday	in reserve
	11	Monday	CNS	Hallén
	14	Thursday	CNS	Hallén
	18	Monday	in reserve
	21	Thursday	CNS	Hallén
	25	Monday	PNS	Hallén
	28	Thursday	Pregnancy and birth	Johansson
December	2	Monday	Urinary system	Peeker
	5	Thursday	MedTech research at Chalmers / Neural control of bionic prostheses and neuro- rehabilitation from pain	Persson/Ortiz
	9	Monday	Sensory organs	Hallén
	12	Thursday	Biomedical engineers	Karlberg/Kanderhag
	16	Monday	Tissue engineering / Microwave tech, breast cancer diagnosis	Hoyek/Fhager
	19	Thursday	in reserve
January 2020	17		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 Edition,

Gerard J. Tortora, Bryan H. Derrickson

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

Available at Cremona for 589 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
2	Biochemistry	22-40	25-44	22-40
3	Cells	44-62, 65-67	48-65; 69-72	41-58; 61-64
4	Tissue	73-94	78-99	68-87 (4.1-4.7)
5	The integumentary system	100-108	106-114	92-100 (5.1-5.3)
6	Skeletal system	118-129	124-135	107-116
7	Joints	164-176	177-188	154-163
8	Muscular system	184-199	197-213	170-184
9	Nervous tissue	237-251	252-265	220-233
10	CNS	255-276	271-293	236-256 (10.1-10.6)
11	ANS	284-290	301-307	261-266
12	Senses	297-321	314-338	271-293
13	Endocrine system	328-346	346-365	299-317 (13.1-13.8)
14	Blood	357-371	377-390	326-338
15	Heart	377-391	397-412	342-355 (15.1-15.7)
16	Blood vessels	398-406	420-428	360-369 (16.1-16.3)
17	Lymphatic & immune system	432-452	454-473	391-407 (17.1-17.3)
18	Respiratory system	459-479	482-502	415-433 (18.1-18.6)
19	Digestive system	486-510	511-536	440-461
20	Metabolism & Nutrition	524-532	551-559	474-482 (20.2-20.3)
21	Urinary system	538-552	566-581	485-498 (21.1-21.4)
22	Fluid balance	558-562	588-592	503-507 (22.1)
23	Reproduction system	571-588	602-621	515-533 (23.1-23.3)
24	Development and inheritance	600-616	634-650	544-557 (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 assignment on constructing exam questions with the chance of bonus points is new.

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.

Exams:

Part A	Exam	28 Oct 2019	08:30
Part B	Exam	17 Jan 2020	08:30
Re-exam Part A and B		7 Apr 2020	14:00
Re-exam Part A and B		19 August 2020	14:00