MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS
Medicine Handbook 1996
Published by Monash University
Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia
Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996
Tissue
injury, neoplasia and inflammation
Professor J W Goding (Pathology and Immunology) and Dr P J M Tutton
(Anatomy)
Objectives This unit aims to provide a solid understanding of the basic
principles of pathology that form the foundations upon which subsequent
systems-based courses and clinical teaching will be built. On completion of
this unit, students should understand the causes and consequences of injury to
individual cells and tissues, the processes of acute and chronic inflammation
and normal and abnormal tissue repair mechanisms. They should know some of the
mechanisms which control cell growth and differentiation, and understand how
these mechanisms go wrong in neoplasia. They should have a sufficient
understanding of general and systematic pathology to act as a foundation for
clinical learning, and appreciate the relationships between normal and abnormal
structure and function.
Synopsis This component is conducted conjointly by the departments of
Pathology and Immunology and Anatomy, and consists of an integrated series of
lectures and practicals. Topics to be covered will include mechanisms of tissue
injury, inflammation, cell death and repair, control of growth at the cellular
and molecular level and the ways by which the normal mechanisms may be
subverted in neoplasia, and an outline of how these processes affect specific
tissues and organs.
Assessment Examination (in conjunction with `Infection and immunity'):
Essay questions (2 hrs): 60% + MCQ (1 hr): 30% + Practical (1.5 hrs): 10%
Recommended texts
- Robbins S, Cotran R and Kumar V Pathological basis of disease 5th
edn, Saunders, 1995
- Rubin E and Farber J L Patholgy 2nd edn, Lippincott, 1993
- Stevens A and Low J Pathology Mosby, 1995
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