2024-2025 Catalog and Student Handbook

PASP 505 Pathophysiology I

This first course in a two-course series is designed to provide pathophysiological mechanisms (including genetic/chromosomal and molecular mechanisms) of disease and their clinical manifestations as these concepts apply to the practice of medicine across the life span using a lecture/discussion format. The course starts with an in-depth discussion of basic pathophysiologic mechanisms of disease and then applies those mechanisms to specific disease states in the various organ systems of the human body. During this part one of the series the neurologic, musculoskeletal, endocrine and hematologic systems are covered. Diseases will be selected for individual study based on their importance in clinical medicine, demonstration of principles of pathophysiology, and their relevance as representatives of a group of diseases.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

Open only to students admitted into the Physician Assistant Studies program.