ID:
OS12A4A
Duration (hours):
30
CFU:
2
SSD:
FISIOLOGIA
Url:
MIDWIFERY/CORSO GENERICO Year: 1
Year:
2025
Course Catalogue:
Overview
Date/time interval
Secondo Semestre (03/03/2026 - 30/05/2026)
Syllabus
Course Objectives
OBJECTIVES OF THE COURSE
Physiology is an integrative discipline that studies the functioning of life processes at many levels of complexity: from cells, to organs and apparatuses, to whole organisms, up to the populations. The objective of this course is to provide the theoretical bases that will allow students to understand the cellular mechanisms that underlie the functioning of the major apparatuses that constitute the human organism. Particular attention will be devoted to the nervous, musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, respiratory, and urinary systems.
Expected Learning Outcomes
The student during the oral examination must:
- present and discuss exhaustively the questions selected;
- prove comprehension of the mechanisms underlying cell and organ functions;
- draw schematically the structures, diagrams and graphics requested (see program);
- show communication skills of the concepts learned.
- use an appropriate language to describe the concepts of Physiology.
Course Prerequisites
PREREQUISITES
Obstetrics students to take the integrated examination of Physiology and Biochemistry, must have passed the integrated examinations of Physics, Statistics and Computer Science and Biology, Anatomy and Histology.
Teaching Methods
TEACHING METHODS
The course is structured in 30 hours of frontal teaching, divided into 15 lessons of 2 hours each according to the teaching calendar.The frontal teaching will be supported by the projection of slides (prepared by the teacher) and movie-animations related to the topics covered.
Attendance is mandatory and verified by collection of signatures in each lesson. The students to be admitted at the exam must have attended a minimum of 70% of classes.
Assessment Methods
EXAMS:
The student level of preparation will be verified through an exam that will focus exclusively on topics covered in the lectures (listed in detail in the extended program, see below).
The exam will consist of a written and an oral test to be held on the same day. If the exams will not be completed in one day due to excessive numbers of students, the exam will be completed the first available day. The students will be examined in the order in which they signed-in for the exam in web site.
The written exam will last 20 minutes and will consist in 10 questions with multiple choice of answer (with only one correct answer). The total points of the written test will be 30 (3 points for each correct answer, 0 points for each wrong answer). To access the oral exam the student must have answered correctly to 6 questions out of 10. The relative weight of the written test will be 1/2 of the Physiology exam and ¼ of the entire exam (which includes also 2 CFU of Biochemistry and 1 CFU of History of Medicine).
The oral exam will be based on pre-formulated questions (published and accessible to the students before the exam) that will be drawn by the student at the time of the test. Each student will draw a maximum of 2 2 oral questions and must reach a sufficient score (18/30) in each of the 2 questions. The relative weight of the oral examination will be 1/2 of the Physiology exam and ¼ of the entire exam (which includes also 2 CFU of Biochemistry and 1 CFU of History of Medicine).
The final mark of the exam will be determined by the mathematical average between 2 scores: 1 from the written test, and 1 from the oral examination.
Texts
TEXTBOOKS
The student will find and study the topics covered in class (listed in detail in the extended program, see below) in several books of Human Physiology available on the market. Below some of the textbooks among which the student could choose:
1. Human Physiology (or Physiology): an integrated approach. Author: Dee Unglaub Silverthorn.
2. Human Physiology: from cells to systems. Author: Lauralee Sherwood.
3. Fundamentals of Human Physiology. Author: Lauralee Sherwood.
4. Physiology; author. Author: Cindy L. Stanfield.
5. Vander Physiology. Authors: Eric P. Widmaier, Hershel Raff, Kevin T. Strang.
Contents
CONTENT
1. Introduction to Physiology.
2. Neuron Physiology and generation of electrical signals.
3. Skeletal and Smooth Muscle: structure and function.
4. General principles of endocrine physiology.
5. Physiology of the Cardiovascular System.
6. Physiology of the Respiratory System.
7. Physiology of the Renal Sistem.
Course Language
TEACHING LANGUAGE Italian
More information
HOW TO MEET WITH THE TEACHER
Meeting the teacher will require scheduling an appointment by e-mail (laura.pietrangelo@unich.it)
Degrees
Degrees
MIDWIFERY
Bachelor’s Degree
3 years
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