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BOOKS Prescribed textbooks:
Sinclair D Human Growth after Birth OUP 1969
McLaren D S Nutrition and its Disorders Churchill Livingstone 1972 Hamilton W J Boyd J D & Mossman H W Human Embryology 4th ed,
Heffer 1972
(b) Recommended for Reference:
Balinsky B 1 An Introduction to Embryology 2nd or subsequent ed, Saunders
HUMAN BEHAVIOUR
A course of 44 lectures. Demonstrations and tutorials of one hour per week.
SYLLABUS Introduction, including a brief history of Psychology. Intro- duction to methodological and statistical procedures. Psychological de- velopment of the human being from infancy to old age.
Motivation and Personality: Review of findings on the nature of motivation, both from a comparative (ethological) arid human point of view, extending toe consideration of the nature of human personality.
Cognitive processes: Perception, remembering and forgetting, learning, intelligence, language and thinking.
Social Psychology: This will cover a consideration of the Individual and his social interactions and also discussion of the broad patterns of social and cultural influences in society.
BOOKS Prescribed Textbooks:
Hilgard E R Atkinson R C & Atkinson R L Introduction to Psychology 5th ed, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1971
Lindgren H C An Introduction to Social Psychology, 2nd ed Wiley 1973 Mowbray R M & Rodger T F Psychology in Relation to Medicine 3rd ed,
Livingstone 1970
EXAMINATION Two written papers of three hours duration each. One paper will cover the segments on Biostatistics, Community Health, and Human Growth and Development. The second paper will be devoted exclusively to the segment on Human Behaviour (assessment of practical work, essays or projects completed during the year may also be taken into account in determining grades In this segment).
SECOND YEAR
516-021 ANATOMY INCLUDING HISTOLOGY AND
then be allotted to groups for dissection and for demonstrations. Stu- dents who do not report will be allotted to groups regardless of personal choice. Students absent from Melbourne during this week should write to the laboratory manager in the Anatomy department informing him of their intended partners before February 13.
HISTOLOGY and EMBRYOLOGY
The course will extend the histological and embryological work of first year. It will consist of lectures, demonstrations and practical work on the structure and development of the cells, tissues, organs and systems of the human body.
ATTENDANCE While attendance at lectures is not compulsory, students are required to attend practical classes and demonstrations.
REQUIREMENTS Students must provide themselves with a set of dissect- ing instruments and a half set of bones. Students are supplied with slides and a microscope by the department, or may provide their own micro- scope. Microscopes supplied by the department are for use within the department only.
Students are required to wear white coats in the Dissecting Room.
BOOKS (a) Prescribed textbooks:
Cunningham's Manuel of Practical Anatomy 3 vols 13th ed, OUP Cunningham Textbook of Anatomy 10th or subsequent ed, OUP
Hamilton WJ Boyd J D & Mossman H W Human Embryology 4th ed, Heller 1972
Агеу L B Human Histology 1st or subsequent ed, Saunders (b) Recommended for Reference:
Gray's Anatomy Descriptive and Applied 32nd or subsequent ed, Longmans Lockhart R D Hamilton G F & Fyfe F W Anatomy of the Human Body,
Faber 1959
Hamilton W J Simon G & Hamilton S G Surface and Radiological Anatomy 5th ed, Heffer 1971
Patten B M Human Embryology 3rd ed, McGraw-Hill
Агеу L B Developmental Anatomy 6th or subsequent ed, Saunders Porter & Bonneville Fine Structure of cells and Tissues 3rd or subse-
quent ed, Lea & Faы gar
Ham A W Histology 7th ed, Lippincott 1974
Bloom W & Fawcett H D Textbook of Histology 9th ed, Saunders 1968 EXAMINATION At the end of the Second Year:
Anatomy (pass only) One 3-hour written paper, oral examination.
Histology and Embryology (pass only). One 3-hour written paper, oral examination.
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021. PHYSIOLOGYSYLLABUS (a) Cellular physiology, the study of the characteristics of the cells of animal tissues, including properties unique to special cell types such as neurons and muscle fibres, and (b) Systemic mammalian physiology, the study of the activities of tissues and organs subserving the various co-ordinated body functions, such as those constituting the cardiovascular, respiratory, renal and gastro-Intestinal systems. Detailed
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study of the regulatory systems—the nervous and endocrine systems- is delayed until the third year of the new curriculum.
LECTURES Two lectures per week throughout second year. Details of lectures are posted in the Department.
SEMINARS, WORK SESSIONS, DEMONSTRATIONS Held throughout second year. Details of these, of combined teaching sessions by the Departments of Biochemistry and Physiology, and of tutorials in clinical physiology held in the Teaching Hospitals, will be posted in the depart- ment.
LABORATORY CLASSES The student class is divided into two groups.
One group attends Physiology when the other attends Biochemistry. The groups alternate on a weekly basis, according to the schedule posted in the Department. Students will require surgical instruments for laboratory work (details on Departmental noticeboard), a white coat, a loose-leaf laboratory notebook (A4 paper) and a roll of recording paper obtainable from the Department of Physiology, Room No. N212. A laboratory manual will be issued by the Department.
Enrolment for Laboratory Classes:
Students work in pairs and may arrange a partner for laboratory work.
All students should report to the Russell Grimwade School of Biochemis- try during the week of February 9-13, 1976. They will then be allotted a group for both Physiology and Biochemistry laboratory work; those who do not report to the Biochemistry Department will be alloted partners.
Students who will be absent from Melbourne during this week should inform the Biochemistry Department in writing of their intended partners before the end of that week. No further enrolment is required in the Physiology Department.
ATTENDANCE See Regulation 3.35 in Chapter 7, of this Handbook.
STUDENT ASSESSMENT To be based on (a) a mid-year examination (11/= hours) and an end of year examination (3 hours), (b) an essay assignment completed during second term, and (c) assignments related to lecture and laboratory classes. These latter assignments will be assessed by departmental staff throughout the year. The relative loading of the different factors used for assessing the student's understanding of Physiology will be outlined at the beginning of the year and indicated in the laboratory manual.
BOOKS (a) Recommended for preliminary reading:
Vander A J Sherman J H& Luciano D S Human Physiology Mechanisms of Body Function, McGraw-Hill 1970.
Bernard C Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine Collier, Dover Constable
Harvey W On the Motion of Heart and Blood, 26073—Gate (b) Prescribed textbook:
Best Taylor and Broback J R Physiological Basis of Medical Practice 9th ed, Williams & Wilkins 1973
(c) General references and monographs:
Ruch T C & Patton H D Physiology and Biophysics 20th ed, Saunders 1974
Dayson H A Textbook of General Physiology 4th ed, Churchill 1970 Mountcastle V B ed Medical Physiology 13th ed, Mosby St Louis 1973
Campbell E J M Dickinson C J & Slater J D H Clinical Physiology 4th ed, Blackwell 1975
McLennan H Synaptic Transmission 2nd ed, Saunders 1970
Berne R M & Levy M N Cardiovascular Physiology 2nd ed, Mosby 1972 Comma J H Physiology of Respiration An Introductory Text, Year Book
Medical Publishers 1965
Davenport H W The Digestive Tract 2nd ed, Year Book Medical Pub- lishers 1968
Pitts R F Physiology of the Kidney and Body Fluids 2nd ed, Year Book Medical Publishers 1968
Eccles J C The Physiology of Synapses, Springer-Verlag 1964 Gilmore J P Renal Physiology 1st ed, Williams & Wilkins 1972 Katz B Nerve Muscle and Synapse, McGraw-Hill 1968
Ganong W F Review of Medical Physiology 6th ed. Lange Los Altos 1973
Catt K J An ABC of Endocrinology, The Lancet 1971
West J B Respiratory Physiology the Essentials, Williams & Wilkins 1974
Human Reproduction Science Journal Paladin 1971
521-021. BIOCHEMISTRY
SYLLABUS Living tissues are considered from the point of view of structure-function relationships of their chemical constituents—proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, nucleic acids, and substances of smaller molecular weight. Other topics to be considered are: enzyme catalysis and kinetics, the generation and dissipation of ATP, the principal metabolic pathways, their integration and cellular control, the genetic code, nucleic acid and protein synthesis, feedback regulation of metabolism including Induction and repression of protein synthesis and the biochemistry of specialized tissues.
LECTURES Two lectures per week throughout Second year. Details of the lectures will be posted in the Department.
TUTORIALS, SEMINARS, DEMONSTRATIONS These will be held through- out the year during the time allocated for Practical Work. Details of these and of combined teaching sessions with the Departments of Physiology and Anatomy will be posted in the Department.
LABORATORY CLASSES The class is divided into two groups. One group attends Biochemistry for both Thursday and Friday while the other group attends Physiology. The groups alternate on a weekly basis according to a schedule posted in both Departments.
ENROLMENT FOR PRACTICAL WORK All students should report to the Russell Grimwade School of Biochemistry during the week 9th-13th February 1976 when they will be allotted a group for both Physiology and Biochemistry. In the practical work, students work in pairs; on enrolment they may nominate a partner, but if they do not report during enrolment week a partner will be allotted to them. Students who will be absent from Melbourne during this week should write to the Laboratory Manager, Department of Biochemistry, informing him of their intended partners before 13th February. No further enrolment is required with the Physiology Department.
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requires a name disc, a laboratory coat and a practical note book (No.
3-ЗА from the University Bookroom is suitable).
ATTENDANCE See Regulation 3.35, Chapter 7, of this Handbook.
BOOKS
Prescribed textbook:
White A Handler P & Smith E L Principles of Biochemistry 5th ed, McGraw-Hill 1973
A list of additional recommended textbooks together with comments on their suitability will be posted on the Biochemistry noticeboard in December each year.
EXAMINATIONS One mid-year examination of 1% hours and an end of year examination of up to 3 hours; viva voce tests as notified by the Department. Students must perform satisfactorily in the practical course to be permitted to sit for the final examination in November.
THIRD YEAR
516-031. ANATOMY INCLUDING
HISTOLOGY AND EMBRYOLOGY
A course of lectures, demonstrations and practical work on the gross and microscopic structure and development of the nervous system and the organs of special sense; in addition, the surface and radiographic anatomy of the body together with relevant dissected parts are studied.
PRACTICAL WORK The brain and spinal cord are dissected and stu- dents are required to study prepared dissections and histological slides.
Demonstrations will be given on dissected material, radiographs and surface anatomy.
ATTENDANCE Attendance at lectures is not compulsory, but students are required to attend practical classes and demonstrations.
REQUIREMENTS Students must provide themselves with a set of dissecting instruments and half set of bones. Students are supplied with slides and a miscroscope by the department, or may provide their own microscope. Microscopes provided by the department are for use within the department only. Students are required to wear white coats in the dissecting room.
BOOKS (a) Prescribed textbooks As for second year, and
Hamilton W J Simon G & Hamilton S G Surface and Radiological Anatomy 5th ed, Heffer 1971
(b) Recommended for reference As for second year, and
Meschan I An Atlas of Normal Radiographic Anatomy 2nd ed, Saunders 1965
EXAMINATION At the end of first term of the third year.
This examination will cover the work done during the first term of the third year. One 2-hour written paper. Oral examination if required.
Honours will be awarded and will be based on the candidate's perform- ance at the examinations at the end of the second year and at the end of the first term of the third year.
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SYLLABUS The physiology of the nervous and endocrine systems. The The lecture series on endocrine function is given jointly with the Depart- ment of Biochemistry. Work sessions relating to the lecture course are given throughout this term.
The analysis of clinical problems in terms of physiological principles, which was begun in the course In physiology in second year, continues throughout this term. Seminars, run jointly with the Departments of Biochemistry and Pharmacology, and clinical demonstrations in the Teaching Hospitals are used for this teaching.
LABORATORY CLASSES AND DEMONSTRATIONS These are held throughout first term. Students work In groups, a list of which will be posted on the notice-board. A laboratory manual will be issued, In which the details of requirements (white coats, etc.) are outlined.
ATTENDANCE See regulation 3.35 in Chapter 7 of this Handbook.
EXAMINATION An examination lasting three hours will be held in the 12th week of term. The results of this examination, together with an essay to be completed early in the term will be used in assessing the student's progress. Students must satisfy the examiners of their know- ledge of Physiology before proceeding to the second term of the third year course. Honours will be awarded on the overall performance in Physiology throughout the four terms of the course. Further details of the assessing procedures will be announced in the first week of the term.
BOOKS (a) Prescribed textbooks
Best Taylor and Broback J R Physiological Basis of Medical Practice 9th ed, Williams & Wilkins 1973
(b) Recommended references
Mountcastle V B ed Medical Physiology 13th ed, Mosby 1973
Ruch T C and Patton H D eds Physiology and Biophysics Vols I and III 20th ed, Saunders 1973 1974
Catt K J An ABC of Endocrinology The Lancet 1971, Human Reproduc- tion Science Journal Paladin 1971
521-031. BIOCHEMISTRY
SYLLABUS A course of twenty-one lectures dealing with: aspects of the control of intermediary metabolism including both cellular and endo- crine control; blood and iron metabolism; inborn errors of metabolism;
the biochemistry of shock and of cancer. The unit on endocrinology is a joint Biochemistry/Physiology unit.
PRACTICAL WORK Students will not be required to carry out formal experimental work. Time scheduled for practical work will be devoted to the discussion and interpretation of biochemical data and to tutorials and seminars. Details of the programme and of combined teaching sessions with the Departments of Physiology and Pharmacology will be posted In the Department.
BOOKS
As for second year.
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EXAMINATION An examination lasting three hours will be held in the 12th week of term. Students must satisfy the examiners of their know- ledge of Biochemistry before proceeding to the second term of the third year course. Honours will be awarded on the overall performance in Biochemistry throughout the four terms of the course. Further details of the assessment procedures will be announced in the first week of the term.
500 - 301 MEDICAL STUDIES II
PSYCHOSOCIAL APPROACHES TO ABNORMAL BEHAVIOUR
A course of 20 lectures and 20 tutorials or demonstrations. The subject comprises the principles of psychopathology and an introduction to the study of the psychosocial dimensions of abnormal behaviour.
It is assumed that the student has a basic understanding of normal psychology as taught in Medical Studies I.
SYLLABUS
Introduction: An historical review of psychiatry. A comparative survey of perspectives on abnormal behaviour—including biophysical, intra- psychic, behavioural, phenomenological and sociocultural approaches.
The uses and limitation of models of abnormal behaviour and experience.
Concepts of abnormality and deviance in psychiatry.
Psychopathology: Introduction to descriptive and psychodynamic ap- proaches to psychopathology. Problems of description and classification.
Social learning interpretations of psychological dysfunction. Social factors influencing psychopathology. Family structures and their pathology.
Developmental aspects of psychopathology. Disorders: An overview of the neuroses, affective disorders, psychotic states and other categories of mental illness. A comparison of psychoanalytic and learning approaches to the neuroses. Psycho-social therapies. Neuropsychology: The applica- tion of neuropsychological concepts to the understanding of behavioural dysfunctions. The psychosomatic approach.
Sociology and social psychology in relation to abnormal behaviour: A review of selected social psychological and sociological theories and approaches relevant to psychiatry. Aspects of the sociology of psychiatry and of sociology in psychiatry. Epidemiological and macrosociological studies in psychiatry and microsociological analyses of abnormal be- haviour. Social factors in the etiology, presentation, therapy and main- tenance of mental illness. The sick role and illness behaviour.
BOOKS (a) Prescribed textbooks
Millon T Theories of Psychopathology and Personality 2nd ed, Saun- ders 1973
Price R H Abnormal Behaviour: Perspectives in Conflict, Holt Rinehard
& Winston 1972
Davies B An Introduction to Clinical Psychiatry, MUP 1971 (b) Recommended for reference
Zax M and Stricker G The Study of Abnormal Behaviour: Selected Readings 2nd ed, Macmillan 1969
Brown J A C Freud and the Post-Freudians, Pelican 1967
Knutson A L The Individual Society and Health Behaviour, Russel Sage Foundn. 1965
Bowden C L and Burstein A G Psychosocial Basis of Medical Practice, Williams & Wilkins 1974
SOCIAL MEDICINE AND CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY
A course of 37 lectures and 30 hours' practical work, designed to study problems of health and disease in communities and populations.
LECTURES Revision of elementary biostatistics with emphasis on in- ferences from samples and hypothesis testing. Populations, their size and structure and the implications for health and medical care. Vital statistics, their source and use as indices of community health. Clinical introduction to the common diseases, major causes of death in Australia and their change with time; disease classification. The epidemiologic method in studying disease, the epidemiology of selected diseases.
Principles of computing, data storage and analysis. Social and physical environment and disease. The effect of social class, occupation and ethnic group on disease manifestation and management. The social history as an integral part of diagnosis and management. Systems of health care in different countries, methods of evaluating a health system.
Controlled trials of medical management.
PRACTICAL WORK Field visits to areas of social and professional concern, student seminars related to these topics. Assignments may contribute to examination results.
BOOKS (a) Recommended for reference
Susser M W and Watson W Sociology in Medicine, OUP
McKeown T and Lowe C R An Introduction to Social Medicine, Black- well
Hetzel B Health and Australian Society, Pelican
Robinson D Patients Practitioners and Medical Care, Heinemann EXAMINATION An examination covering Psychosocial Approaches to Abnormal Behaviour, Social Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology may be held at the beginning of 3rd term and will contribute a portion of the marks for the year. The end-of-year examination will be of 3 hours' duration. Oral examinations ln either section may also be required for some candidates who would be notified by either the department of Medicine or department of Psychiatry.
NUTRITION
SYLLABUS The biochemical rationale of nutrition and nutritional disease.
A course of eight lectures on the requirements of the human for major and minor nutrients in relation to various physiological states. The nutritive value of various foods with some comment on changes during storage, manufacture and preparation. Problems of nutrition In selected states such as those demanding parenteral nutrition, obesity and associa- ted diseases, protein-energy deficiency, common vitamin and mineral deficiency states.
BOOKS (a) Prescribed textbook
Davidson S Passmore R and Brock J F Human Nutrition and Dietetics 5th ed, Churchill Livingstone 1972
(b) Recommended for reference
Cheek D B ed Human Growth, Lea and Febiger 1968
Hytten F E and Leitch I The Physiology of Human Pregnancy 2nd ed, Blackwell 1971
EXAMINATION This unit will be examined with Biochemistry 521-031 at the end of first term.
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031 PATHOLOGYA course in General Pathology and introductory Special Pathology of approximately 180 hours comprising lectures, practical classes In histo- pathology, tutorials and special demonstrations.
SYLLABUS The major topics will include: congenital and acquired abnormalities, cell and tissue damage and degeneration, necrosis. auto- lysis, acute and chronic inflammation, infection, oedema, shock and other general consequences of injury, wound healing, repair, haemorr- hage, haemostasis, thrombosis, embolism, vascular disease and its consequences, infarction, disorders of metabolism, abnormalities of pigmentation and calcification, calculus formation, abnormalities of growth, differentiation and regeneration, neoplasia. Knowledge of the commoner examples of these processes in the various organs and systems will be required.
LECTURES A course of 72 lectures and 36 hours of lecture-demonstra- tions in general pathology, the basic pathology of the main organ systems, and introductory applied pathology.
PRACTICAL WORK
(i) Laboratory work in pathological histology (2 hours per week through- out both terms).
(ii) Tutorial classes in anatomical pathology and applied pathology (2 hours per week throughout both terms).
(iii) Students are advised to use the museum for private study.
BOOKS (a) Prescribed textbooks:
Robbins S L Pathological Basis of Disease, Saunders 1974 or
Cappell D F & Anderson J R Muir's Textbook of Pathology, 9th Arnold 1971
(b) Recommended for reference:
Anderson W A D Pathology, 6th ed Mosby 1971 or
Payling Wright G & Symmers W St C Systemic Pathology, 2 vols 1st ed Longmans 1967
Hurley J V Acute Inflammation, Churchill Livingstone, 1972
Florey H General Pathology, 4th ed Lloyd-Luke Medical Books Ltd 1970 or
Walter J B & Israel M S General Pathology 4th ed, Churchill 1974 Willis R A Pathology of Tumours, 4th ed Butterworth 1968
Willis R A Spread of Tumours in the Human Body 3rd ed, Butterworth 1973
Curran R C Colour Atlas of Histopathology 1st ed revised, Harvey Miller
& Medcalf 1972 or
Sandritter W & Wartman W B Colour Atlas and Textbook of Tissue and Cellular Pathology, 3rd ed Year Book Medical Publishers Inc 19 69
Pinniger J L & Tighe J R Pathology 3rd ed, Baillière Tindall &
Cassell 1972
Gray C H Clinical Chemical Pathology 6th ed, Arnold 1971
Thompson R H S& Wootton I D P Biochemical Disorders in Human Disease, 3rd ed Churchill 1970
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