VTMED 5300

Function and Dysfunction: Part I (Foundation Course IIIa)

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2024-2025.

Designed to develop students' understanding of how an animal maintains itself as a functional organism; how the maintenance of function is achieved through the integration of different organ systems; how tissue structure relates to tissue function; how injury alters structure and leads to dysfunction, manifested as clinical signs; how organ function can be assessed; and how organ function can be modulated pharmacologically.  The course incorporates aspects of physiology, biochemistry, cell biology, histology, pathology and histopathology, clinical pathology and pharmacology.

When Offered Spring.

Fees Cost of materials: $15.
Permission Note Enrollment limited to: first- year veterinary students.
Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisite: VTMED 5200.

Comments Live animals used on limited basis for demonstration of noninvasive procedures.

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