Module MZ2100 B

Module Part: Course Pathology (Patho)


Duration

1 Semester

Turnus of offer

each winter semester

Credit points

3

Course of studies, specific fields and terms:

  • Bachelor MES 2020, Module part of a compulsory module, medicine
  • Bachelor Medical Informatics 2019, Module part of a compulsory module, medical computer science
  • Bachelor Medical Informatics 2014, Module part of a compulsory module, medical computer science
  • Bachelor MES 2014, Module part of a compulsory module, medicine
  • Bachelor Medical Informatics 2011, Module part of a compulsory module, medical computer science
  • Bachelor MES 2011, Module part of a compulsory module, medicine
  • Bachelor Computer Science 2012, Module part of a compulsory module, specialization field medical informatics

Classes and lectures:

  • Pathology (lecture, 2 SWS)

Workload:

  • 45 hours private studies
  • 15 hours exam preparation
  • 30 hours in-classroom work

Contents of teaching:

  • To place the specialty of pathology in the context of medicine as a whole (looking to history and future)
  • Specific methods of investigation in pathology
  • To define terms like health, illness, death, aetiology, pathogenesis
  • To define typical terms of medical statistics
  • Description of morphological changes of cells and tissue with implications to diagnosis
  • Basic mechanisms of pathogenesis, typical clinical progression of disease in different organ systems
  • IT- applications in the area of pathology which support diagnostic work (Lab-devices, interfaces to connect lab and clinical systems as well as a private doctor’s office, tele pathology)

Qualification-goals/Competencies:

  • Students are able to relate important historical dates and persons of pathology to diagnostic methods. They can describe methods like descriptive pathology, gross section, immunohistochemistry and molecular pathology.
  • They are able to define terms like health, illness, death, aetiology and pathogenesis. Evaluating a case report, they will recognize the right definition.
  • They are able to evaluate a given problem and determine approptiate descriptive terms like incidence or mortality.
  • They are able to to analyse a small case report. They will recognize and explain different changes of cells and tissues in connection to a limited number of given diagnoses.
  • They are able to name and describe different informatics application which are used in the pathology lab.
  • They can specify the needs a pathologist will have to the technology. This will cover the benefit and the usability for the diagnostic work.

Grading through:

  • written exam

Responsible for this module:

Teacher:

Literature:

  • W. Böcker, H. Denk, P. U. Heitz, H. Moch : Pathologie Urban & Fischer Verlag/Elsevier GmbH, 2012
  • M. Krams, S. O. Frahm, U. Kellner, C. Mawrin : Kurzlehrbuch Pathologie Thieme 2013
  • R. Kramme : Medizintechnik, Verfahren - Systeme – Informationsverarbeitung Springer 2011

Language:

  • offered only in German

Notes:

Admission requirements for taking the module:
- None

Admission requirements for participation in module examination(s):
- None

Module Exam(s):
- MZ2160-L4: Pathology for technical courses, written exam, 30min, 100% of the submodule grade.

(Is module part of MZ2152, MZ2160)

Harald Hatje supports Prof. Perner in the pathology course and should therefore always be addressed.

Last Updated:

13.09.2021