Official NUC CCMAS syllabus

POT 317 — Clinical Pathology

POT department course · Nigerian universities

What you'll be able to do (official learning outcomes)

• discuss cellular mechanism and basis of diseases
• identify different inflammatory molecules and the mechanism of immune response to foreign biological and non-biological entities
• discuss types of injury, bacteria, fungal and viral diseases, oedema and thrombosis conditions; and
• describe types of tumours /cancers

Course contents

Pathology of diseases. Cellular basis of disease. Inflammation and healing. Immune mechanism, physical agents in injury and disease, drug and chemical injury, radiation injury, atrophy, hypertrophy, degeneration, oedema, thrombosis, infarction, bacterial and viral disease, fungal infections, tumours, cancers and inherited disease.

Source: the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) Core Curriculum and Minimum Academic Standards (CCMAS). StudyOps loads this syllabus automatically when you study POT 317.

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