STANDARD COMPETENCIES:

 

 By the end of the course, students will:

 1. Explore and analyze the most common disease processes for each body system.

 

 2. Explain how epidemiology helps to track disease and plan for health care needs.

 

 3. Define the common terms used to describe disease, such as lesions, organic and functional disease, symptomatic and asymptomatic disease, etiology, and pathogenesis.

 

 4. List the major categories of human disease care and management.

 

 5. Describe the various types of diagnostic tests and procedures used in making a diagnosis.

 

 6. Describe the components of the drug cycle, absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion.

 

 7. Identify medications within commonly prescribed drug/pharmaceutical categories.

 

 8. Describe the therapeutic action of commonly prescribed drugs within a given category.

 

 9. Identify a disease and a generic or proprietary prescribed drugs used for treatment.

 

 10. Demonstrate research techniques for obtaining drug information from drug references and other sources.

 

 11. Analyze healthcare records and correlate symptoms, diagnoses, and tests performed with drugs administered for the purposes of data collection.

 

 12. Describe how drugs administered via the following routes are absorbed: topical, oral, inhalation, rectal, intravenous, vaginal, injection and advantages and disadvantages of these methods.

 

 13. Differentiate between a local and systemic drug effects.

 

 14. Describe the physiologic response of an allergic drug reaction.

 

 15. Define the terms receptor, agonist, antagonist, synergism, and antagonism.

 TOPICAL OUTLINE:

 

 1. Pathophysiology

 a. Describe disease processes for each body system

 b. Discuss the body out of homeostasis and susceptible to pathology

 c. Discuss principles of inflammation and repair

 d. Discuss principles of Immunity, Hypersensitivity, Allergy and Autoimmune reactions

 e. Discuss incidences of Neoplasms

 f. Differentiate between acquired or congenital diseases

 g. Differentiate between acute and chronic diseases

 h. Describe treatments; surgeries, lifestyle changes, therapies and prognosis of conditions

 i. Describe diagnostic tests for diagnosing pathological conditions; acquired or congenital

 

 2. Pharmacology

 a. Describes classifications of drugs

 b. Describe actions, indications, interactions and side effects of drug therapy

 c. Describe how drugs are metabolized and excreted in the body

 d. Correlate appropriate drugs with corresponding conditions

 e. Differentiate methods of administering drugs and indications

 f. Discuss ethical and legal drug management

 g. Identify alternative medicines or preparations

 

 3. Body Systems

 a. Review of anatomy and physiology of normal body systems

 b. Review of developmental anatomy.

 c. Review common diseases for each body system

 d. Investigate diagnosis and treatment methods for specialty areas of medicine