Lectures will take place in Collegium Anatomicum.

Seminars and tests will take place at the Department of Pathophysiology in the Center of Medical Biology Building (8 Rokietnicka). The department is found on the third floor, on the south east side of the building, behind locked doors.

https://www.estudent.ump.edu.pl/dmz/
You need a username and password to access the website. You will be provided these at your first test.

Prof. Andrzej Bręborowicz, MD, PhD.
abreb@ump.edu.pl

Textbooks

• Pathophysiology Made Ridiculously Simple
• Pathophysiology (Damjanov)
  • The cardiovascular, respiratory, endocrine, and gastrointestinal modules use quite a bit of information from this textbook

Videos

• Kaplan Physiology videos

Practice questions

• On the OLAT platform, the instructors provide you with some practice questions.

Lectures

• These can be fast-paced (especially renal) so it may be better to have reviewed the material prior to attending.

Seminars

• In seminars, you will go over cases with the instructor. Prior to the seminar, the instructors will give you the cases and some questions. Be sure to complete these before attending the seminar. You are not graded on this. So it’s better to at least have tried the cases and have gotten some wrong answers than to not try the cases on your own at all. This way, you can see whether your line of thinking/reasoning was correct, which is extremely useful for this course.

Internal Tests

• There are several quizzes and tests in this course, all of which are done on the computer and are multiple choice.
• Similar to biochemistry, there is an opening test prior to starting a module. These test you on basic physiology (30 questions).
• After each set of module lecture and seminar, there will be a pathophysiology quiz covering lecture and seminar material (30 questions).
• At the end of a module, there is a clinical cases test, where you are presented some cases and asked questions on them (25 questions, each worth two marks). You will be provided similar cases prior to the test; the lab values will be different.
• In order to sit for the final exam, you need to accumulate 60% (366 points) across all these tests.
• The final exam is similar in format to the tests above. There are 40 questions in total from the modules. You will also be given three clinical cases that you have done before. Each case will have five questions, each worth two marks. The exam is therefore out of 70 and you need 60% to pass.

NBME

• There is no NBME for this course.

This course is all about mechanisms. The key to doing well is understanding them. Whenever a pathophysiology mechanism does not make sense, ask the instructor or research it online. For study notes, draw out all the mechanisms you learn and keep reviewing them. Use the practice questions provided on OLAT as some of them appear in tests. They also provide a good opportunity to identify your weak areas. Most students would probably say that renal is the hardest module as it involves a lot of physiology. It is divided into three topics: electrolyte balance, acid base homeostasis, and kidney pathophysiology. As suggested in the physiology section, make sure you study well in physiology so that you can avoid having to re-study physiology.