Renal medicine
Coordinators: Professor S Holdsworth (Medicine) and Dr C Browne (Physiology)
This subject will provide core material on the morphology, development and physiology of the urinary system and will integrate teaching of homeostatic, regulatory physiological processes in which the kidney plays an important role. It will provide a basis for the understanding of renal medicine. A series of seminar sessions will then serve to integrate the functioning of the kidney with other organ systems and provide a focus for the application of these principles to clinical medicine.
Assessment
Examinations (multiple-choice and short-answer) 2 hours: 100%
Prescribed texts
Berne R M and Levy M N Physiology 3rd edn, Mosby, 1993
Recommended texts
Brenner B M and Rector F The kidney 3rd edn, Saunders, 1986
Vander A J Renal physiology 3rd edn, McGraw-Hill, 1985