Course Coordinator: David Haynes
Phone: +61 8 8313 3180
Email: david.haynes@adelaide.edu.au
Location: Room N315, Medical School North


Additional Academic Staff

Associate Professor Corinna Van Den Heuvel
Phone: +61 8 8313 1456
Email: corinna.vandenheuvel@adelaide.edu.au
Location: Room N305a, Medical School North

Dr Frances Corrigan
Email: frances.corrigan@adelaide.edu.au
Location: School of Medical Sciences Office, Level 4, Medical School North

Dr Tania Crotti
Phone: +61 8 8313 5986
Email: tania.crotti@adelaide.edu.au
Location: Room N305a, Medical School North

Dr Mark Gibson
Phone: +61 8 8313 5337
Email: mark.gibson@adelaide.edu.au
Location: Room N305a, Medical School North

1	To be able to describe and recognise, at a rudimentary level, the cell and tissue changes in basic disease
2	To be able to describe the main predisposing factors of diseases common in our community
3	To relate the learning outcome in 1 above to the outcomes of the common diseases
4	To have a basic understanding of, and be able to use in context, the terminology used in pathology
5	To be able to acquire, read, interpret and synthesise information from a variety of sources in a planned and timely manner
6	To be able to acknowledge and reference sources of information appropriately
7	To develop a critical and enquiring approach to the study of pathology

Textbooks
The recommended textbook is: Robbins Basic Pathology, 7th or 8th edition, by Kumar et al, published by WB Saunders.
If you think you may wish to later study General Pathology IIIHS, you may wish to consider Rubin's Pathology, Clinicopathologic Foundations of Medicine, 5th edition, 2008 edited by Rubin, Strayer, and Rubin (Lippincott Williams and Wilkins) as an alternative.

Online Resources
Resources available on the Biology of Disease II MyUni website. All course correspondence including important course information and regular announcements will take place through MyUni. All lecture notes, lecture recordings etc are available on MyUni.

You may wish to utilise the following resources.

Web sites
There are a wide range of pathology based web sites. These contain tutorials, images of macroscopic and microscopic pathology and links to a range of related sites. A selection of web addresses (in no particular order) follows.
http://www.pathguy.com
http://medicalstudent.com/
http://www.med.unsw.edu.au/pathology/pathmus/
http://www-medlib.med.utah.edu/WebPath/webpath.html
http://www.mic.ki.se/Medimages.html
http://www.mic.ki.se/Diseases/alphalist.html
http://pathweb.uchc.edu/
http://www.pathology.vcu.edu/education/education.html
http://www.humpath.com/
http://www.path.utah.edu/casepath/
http://www.pathologyatlas.ro/ZZEnglishHomePathologyAtlas.html
http://www.path.uiowa.edu/virtualslidebox/

http://www.adelaide.edu.au/clpd http://www.adelaide.edu.au/learning/students/
The University provides a range of services to students including academic writing and study skills development, language development and assistance with mathematics and statistics. These services are free to enrolled students.

Lecture sessions
There will be 3 lecture and/or large group tutorial sessions each week. Presentations will commence at 10 minutes past the hour and will last for 40 to 50 minutes. A lecture will be presented in most sessions. The timetable can be found as a separate document on MyUni. Lecture notes should be downloaded from MyUni prior to the lecture as printed handouts will not be distributed at lectures.
If you do not understand any part of a lecture, do not hesitate to ask for clarification from the lecturer either during the lecture, afterwards or by email.
Lecture notes only aim to provide an outline of a topic. Further reading of a textbook is expected for you to gain wider and deeper knowledge and understanding.

The information below is provided as a guide to assist students in engaging appropriately with the course requirements.
Students are reminded that the overall workload for a full time student as stated in the University of Adelaide Calendar is an average of 48 hours per week per teaching period (i.e. semester). This includes contact and non-contact hours and includes general study and research time for assignments. Biology of Disease II is a 3 unit course and thus represents 1/4 of a full time load. You should thus be putting in an average of 12 hours of study each week (including contact hours) for this course.

Each week you are expected to
• attend teaching sessions (lecture sessions, large group tutorials, Small group discovery experience tutorials)
• read lecture notes and relevant sections of textbooks that relate to lecture material, ensuring that you understand the information, and taking additional notes as necessary
• revise relevant normal structure and function and other relevant science to aid your understanding of the pathology
• utilise other available learning resources e.g. pathology websites
• work on assignments and earlier, rather than later in semester, start to learn/revise the material for examinations

Week	Topic	Lectures
Week 1	Basic Pathology	Course Introduction:  What is pathology? Cells and how they die How and why cells adapt
Week 2	Immunopathology	Basic Immunology Inflammation/healing Immunopathology/Asthma
Week 3	Cardiovascular Pathology	Heart and vascular system Haemodynamics, thrombus, DVT Ischemia, Atherosclerosis
Week 4	Cardiovascular/Forensic	Heart pathology Tutorial: Cardiovascular review Forensic pathology
Week 5	Cancer	Cancer1,2 &3(tutorial)
Week 6	Lung Pathology	Respiratory diseases1,2 &3 (tutorial)
Week 7	Central Nervous System	CNS1,2 & 3 (tutorial)
Week 8	Review week 1	Small Group Discovery Experience tutorials ONLINE test
Week 9	Liver Pathology, Microbiology	Liver Microbiology Large group tutorial
Week 10	Infectious diseases and GIT	Infectious diseases GIT1,2
Week 11	Review week 2	Small Group Discovery Experience tutorials ONLINE test
Week 12	Endocrine related Pathologies	Endocrine, Diabetes
Week 13	Bone a joint etc	Bone and Joint, Sexually transmitted disease Large group tutorial Exam questions

Two (2) Small Group Discovery Experience assignment papers to be completed during the semester, each 15%
Students will attend one SGDE tutorial before they submit their individual assignment. Before attending the session. they will be expected to have read widely on the topic and be prepared to discuss the topic in the tutorial. They will have 1-2 weeks after the tutorial to prepare their concise assignment report. Topics will be selected by the tutor (experiences member of the academic staff) and be related to the tutors research interests.

The assignment will be
     • On the topic of a common disease or aspect of a common disease related to the tutors area of research (eg. arthritis, bowel cancer, dementia, etc.). Students will research the topic and discover in depth about the pathology as well as our current research in the field.
     • Maximum 1000 words
     • Sections
          o Significance and epidemiology
          o Pathogenesis (cell and tissue level)
          o Outcomes and other tissue effects if untreated
          o Treatments (include a treatment introduced in the last decade)
          o Current prognosis with therapy
     • Reports can contain 1 figure but it must be original. This can be hand drawn but must be neat. It can be based on a published work but this must be acknowledged and referenced. It should be attached to the assignment on a separate page to the report
     • There should be at least 3 references in the reference list. These must be published peer reviewed articles listed on Medline. No web sites or text books.

Assessment Task	Assessment Type	Weighting	Learning Outcome(s) being addressed
Two online test to be completed during the semester (2.5% each)	Summative	5%	1-4
Two Small Group Discovery Experience assignment papers to be completed during the semester (15% each)	Summative	30%	2-7
Written theory examination at the end of the semester	Summative	65%	1-4

In order to pass Biology of Disease II, students are required to have completed all components of the assessment, achieve a grade of at least 40% in the end of semester written examination, and achieve an overall grade of at least 50% for the course. Students failing to meet these requirements may either fail outright or be required to sit a replacement examination.

All assessments are summative. Assignments and examinations will be graded using marks. The total possible mark for each will be specified on the assignment/examination. Marks for individual questions in the examinations will be stated on the question paper. The marks give a guide as to how much you should write in your answer. Don’t assume that, for example, 3 marks means that only 3 points/facts must be covered in the answer. Three marks just means that you need not give as much or as detailed information as for a 10 mark question for example.
Results from assessments will be placed into the Grade Centre in MyUni.

Small Group Discovery Experience (SGDE) Assignments
Students will be required to complete 2 research assignments. These will be explained in detail in the first introductory lecture. One assignment is due at the mid semester break and the other at end of semester. Students will attend one SGDE tutorial before they submit their individual work. Before attending the session they will be expected to have read widely on the topic and be prepared to discuss the topic in the tutorial. They will have 1-2 weeks after the tutorial to prepare their concise assignment report. Topics will be selected by the tutor (experiences member of the academic staff) and be related to the tutors research interests.

We are expecting around 200 students so they will be divided into 2 and have half on Monday and the other half on Tuesday. We will have 10-11 groups on each day of ~9 students. Each tutor will have 4 SGDE tutorials (4 different groups ~9 students) on:

Monday (TBA) September (Group A)
Tuesday (TBA) September (Group B)

Monday (TBA) October (Group A)
Tuesday (TBA) October (Group B)

     • The topic should be a common disease or other topic related to the tutors research (eg. arthritis, bowel cancer, dementia, etc.). The idea is the students will research the topic and discover more about the pathology. In short the student will research and produce a fact sheet on the disease.
     • Maximum 1000 words
     • Sections
          o Significance and epidemiology
          o Pathogenesis (cell and tissue level)
          o Outcomes and other tissue effects if untreated
          o Treatments (include a treatment introduced in the last decade)
          o Current prognosis with therapy
     • Reports can contain 1 figure but it must be original. This can be hand drawn but must be neat. It can be based on a published work but this must be acknowledged and referenced. It should be attached to the assignment on a separate page to the report
     • There should be at least 3 references in the reference list. These must be published peer reviewed articles listed on Medline. No web sites or text books.
     • The SGDE will be 30% (15% each) of total marks
The assignment will include a tutorial involvement component (~3% of the 15% in each assignment).

Penalties will apply for late submission of assignments unless an extension with appropriate reasons and supporting documentation (e.g. medical certificate) is provided to the course coordinator BEFORE the due date and time of submission. Otherwise, submission up to 3 days late will result in a loss of 50% of your assignment mark and submission later than this will result in no marks being awarded. Only significant circumstances, such as the death of a close relative or friend, major psychological difficulties or major changes in personal circumstances beyond the control of the student will be considered in the granting of extensions for compassionate reasons.

The assignments aim to assess understanding of the topics covered, in addition to factual knowledge. Certain questions may be aimed at promoting your revision of relevant background health sciences. The questions will generally be based on, but will not be exclusively from, material covered in lectures. Answering the questions will require you to use textbooks in addition to lecture notes. Free access websites e.g. Wikipedia are NOT to be used as reference sources for assignments.

Referencing in assignments
Answers should be written in your own words to demonstrate your personal understanding and should be referenced where appropriate. It is not appropriate to use sentences straight from a textbook, journal article or website, or even to just reorganise a sentence or change a few words from information in a textbook, journal article or website. Information obtained from reference sources should be extensively rewritten to demonstrate your understanding of the topic.

Appropriate referencing is important for academic integrity. It is important that the contribution of the work of others is acknowledged, it provides evidence to support your argument and it provides evidence that you are not plagiarising. The reader should be able to consult the exact source of your information if they wish. You should ensure that your reference includes the information that you are stating it contains. When using a journal article as a reference, you should have read the entire article, not just the abstract.

All sources used for obtaining information should be referenced, including lecture notes. Each reference must be indicated in the text and in a reference list at the end of the assignment. When referencing use the Harvard style, information on which can be found on the web. There are specific guidelines for referencing journal articles and chapters from textbooks. Page numbers containing information obtained from books, in addition to journals, should be stated.

Please ensure that you have read the University’s Policies on Plagiarism and Cheating in Examinations and Related Forms of Assessment. It is each student’s responsibility to read and follow the instructions distributed by the university, school and discipline, including course guides and those related to assessment tasks. These include referencing requirements. Ignorance of appropriate practices, carelessness in note taking and referencing, and finishing an assignment in a hurry are not excuses for inappropriate referencing. For those students requiring further information on this topic, the University of South Australia has a good site at: http://www.unisanet.unisa.edu.au/learningconnection/student/studying/referencing.asp


End of semester examination
The end of semester examination will comprise a 2 hour written paper (with an additional 10 minutes reading time). The examination will aim to examine the depth of a student’s understanding of the topics that have been covered during the semester. To do well in the exam students are encouraged to read widely on the topics and study, rather than just learning lecture handouts.

Penalties will apply for late submission of assignments unless an extension can be granted for appropriate reasons. The details that apply for this can be obtained from the following web site http://www.adelaide.edu.au/student/exams/pdfs/maca_medical_compassionate_info.pdf . This should be applied for BEFORE the due date and time of submission. Otherwise, submission up to 3 days late will result in a loss of 50% of your assignment mark and submission later than this will result in no marks being awarded.