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Objectives

Objectives. Refresh our knowledge of Values, Mission & Vision of the College Explain why we need to study this block at this particular time Describe the general objectives of the block Refresh your knowledge of Assessment Emphasize importance of elearning

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Objectives

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  1. Objectives • Refresh our knowledge of Values, Mission & Vision of the College • Explain why we need to study this block at this particular time • Describe the general objectives of the block • Refresh your knowledge of Assessment • Emphasize importance of elearning • Point out common mistakes committed by students

  2. Values • Team spirit and leadership • High Standards • Innovation, creativity and adaptability • Commitment to community • Professionalism • Life-long learning • Partnership

  3. Mission • To prepare: • Competent & compassionate physicians • Able to meet & respond to the changing health-care needs & expectations of the community • Through innovative medical education, research, & health services collaborating with local and international partners.

  4. Vision: Where we want to be in 5-10 years’ time • Leading national (the best in KSA) • Internationally accredited and recognized college in innovative medical education • A. By a teaching strategy of PBL, SD, student-centered learning, & community-oriented education. • B. By Promoting faculty development, research & collaboration with national and international partners

  5. Understanding different phases of human life: • Gametogenesis • Fertilization • Implantation • Early embryological development • Fetal growth • Infancy and childhood • Adolescence & finally about the inevitable – ageing

  6. General objectives of the block By the end of this block students must be able to understand: • Organs of reproduction (gross and histological), endometrium and its cyclical shedding during menstruation, the ovulatory cycle, spermatogenesis, the formation of semen and its conducting system and the hormonal regulation of these different phenomena

  7. General objectives of the block By the end of this block students must be able to understand: 2. Understand the areas of fertilization and implantation, early embryological development i.e. organogenesis, formation and structure of placenta and umbilical cord and the gestational sac.

  8. Intrauterine development of the embryo & fetus • Physiological changes in normal pregnancy & fetal as well as maternal nutritional requirements • Biochemical basis of nutrition

  9. 6. Breast as a gland, the secretion, transport, & expression of breast milk along with the hormonal control of these phenomena and the composition of breast milk, its superiority over the formula milk, and its benefits to the neonate

  10. Developmental stages in early childhood, milestones & the ages at which they are normally reached • Dentition & ossification of bones, the dietary needs of growing children and the supplements required at this age

  11. 9. Immunization & its role in preventing maternal, fetal & childhood diseases • 10. Impact of drugs on infants and mothers during pregnancy and lactation

  12. Physical & psychological changes during adolescence and the hormonal basis of the pubertal changes with emphasis on the physical changes and menarche • Process of ageing & care of the elderly • How to address the different community issues related to pregnant mothers, infants, children, adolescents & elderly

  13. General organization of Traditional curriculum ↓ ↓ ↓

  14. Frequently asked questions • What will be the way of assessment? • Which books to read for Growth & Development?

  15. Summative evaluation: • Continuous Assessment : 40 MARKS: • PBL sessions 10 • Seminars 5 3. Lab Exams (OSPE) 25

  16. End of Block Exam: 60 1. Paper 1: Short Essay Questions 10 • MEQs 20 2. Paper 2: MCQs 30

  17. Recommended books & learning resources PHYSIOLOGY: Latest editions of: 1. Review of Medical Physiology by Ganong 2. Human Physiology by Stuart I. Fox 3. Guyton & Hall: Textbook of Medical Physiology

  18. Recommended books & learning resources ANATOMY: Latest editions of : 1. Clinical Anatomy for medical students by Richard S. Snell 2. Wheater’s Functional Histology 3. Last’s Anatomy Regional and Applied 4. Clinical Oriented Anatomy by Moore & Dalley 5. Before we are born by More & Persaud 6. Langman’s Medical Embryology

  19. Recommended books & learning resources BIOCHEMISTRY: Latest editions of: 1. Review of Biochemistry by Harper 2. Biochemistry Illustrated by Peter N. Campbell & Anthony D. Smith 3. Textbook of Clinical Biochemistry 4. Biochemistry by Stryer

  20. Recommended books & learning resources PHARMACOLOGY: Latest editions of: 1. Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics Goodman & Gillman 2. Basic & Clinical Pharmacology by B.G. Katzung 3. Lippincott’s Pharmacology 3rd edition

  21. Recommended books & learning resources PATHOLOGY: Latest editions of: • Robbins & Kumar: Pathological Basis of diseases • Robbins Basic Pathology 3. Rubin’s Pathology: Clinicopathologic Foundations of Medicine 4. General & Systemic Pathology by Underwood

  22. Recommended books & learning resources MICROBIOLOGY: Latest editions of: • Warren Levingson: Medical Microbiology and Immunology • Levinson and Ernest Jawetz, Board Review 3. Jawetz, Melnik & Aldelberg’s Medical Microbiology

  23. Recommended books & learning resources COMMUNITY MEDICINE: Latest editions of: 1. Community Medicine & Public Health by Mohamed Ilyas 2. Public Health and Preventive Medicine

  24. Recommended books & learning resources MEDICINE: Latest editions of: • Davidson’s Principles and practice of Medicine 2. Kumar’s Textbook of Clinical Medicine 3. Harrison’s, Principles of Internal Medicine

  25. Help offered by Organizers • Online help available on Qassim University elearning website : • Questions & answer forums: regarding lectures, labs, seminars etc. • PBL corner: Questions and anwers regarding the problems and any issues not clearly understood by students are a particularly important part of the learning process • Panel discussions

  26. What students do wrong? • Start studying late in the Block • Always hoping for postponements of exam dates • Selective & superficial study & only handouts • In my opinion, many students do not think as much as they photocopy and memorize

  27. What students do wrong? • Do not ask enough questions • Do not make good use of panel discussions • Overestimate themselves • Do not read the disciplines which have less no. of lectures in the block • This results in failure to integrate knowledge & failure to understand the basic concepts

  28. Our humble advice! • Read every thing covered in whatever activity • Study every day, but relax and enjoy completely one and a half day a week • Work hard and make yourselves & your parents proud of you and maybe one day, the whole world will be proud of you • Visualize: What and where do you want to be 10 years from now! • Then work hard for that

  29. Special advice • Go through the problems carefully • Follow the steps properly • Remember to keep asking: What? Why? Where? When? How? Which? • Go into the depths and don’t just learn superficially

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