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MEDICAL PATHOPHYSIOLOGY, ACADEMIC 2024/2025.

 

THE SECOND COLLOQUIUM

 

Date: Tuesday, 15.07.2025.

Time: 13:00 h (time slot scheduled for lectures on our course, before the laboratory course)

Place: Institute for Human Anatomy, amphitheatre

Duration: 40 min

 

About the colloquia:

The colloquium consists of 20 multiple choice questions, meaning the student is given 4 possible answers for each question, and only one of those answers is the correct one. The colloquium may also include a case study (vignette). Colloquium includes the material covered in lectures (20% or less of the questions), and seminars and labs (80% or more of the questions) according to the list below.

 

Important basic rules of academic behaviour:

Use of any kind of electronic devices (phones, smart watches/arm bands, eyewear, ear buds, electronic pens, etc.) is strictly forbidden once you enter the room and all students are strongly encouraged not to bring them to the colloquium. You will be asked to shut down and hand-in all of your electronic devices in case you do bring them and you can only take them back once you are finished with the colloquium. If any electronic device is found with a student during the colloquium, regardless of whether he/she is using it or not, the student will be removed from the colloquium and disciplinary action will be taken against him/her.

Once you are given the test you need to be silent and stop talking with other students throughout the colloquium duration. Disregarding this rule will be considered a violation of the course of the colloquium and you will be removed from it.

 

Colloquium rules:

Please bring your student index with a photograph to the colloquium.

If a student does not take the first colloquium in the regular term for a valid reason, they can take a make-up colloquium which will be organised within 10 days. Only students who provide valid documentation that justifies their absence will be allowed to take the make-up colloquium.

 

Colloquium points:

The colloquium is not eliminatory - a student does not have to have any specific number of points in any of the colloquia in order to take the semester signature or the exam.

You cannot fail the colloquium.  The maximum number of pre-exam points you can get for all three colloquia is 20. The number of pre-exam colloquia points will be calculated as the average of the number of questions that you answer correctly on all three colloquia.

 

Materials that will be covered on rhe SECOND colloquium:

LECTURES

• Shock. Etiopathogenesis. Reversible and irreversible shock.
• Acid-base imbalances. Metabolic and respiratory acidosis. Metabolic and respiratory alkalosis
• Valvular heart disease
• Ischaemic heart disease
• Heart failure. Cardiac oedema
• Disorders of the heart’s impusle formation and conduction
• Arterial hypertension and hypotension
• Obstructive pulmonary disease
• Restrictive pulmonary syndrome
• Alterations in pulmonary cicrulation
• Alterations in control of ventilation
• Respiratory arrhythmia
• Anaemia. Etiopathogenesis and systemic consequences. Polycythaemia.
• Disorders of white blood cells. Lymphoproliferative disorders. Leukaemias.
• Disorders of haemostasis and blood coagulation.
• Disorders of gastrointestinal secretion and motility
• Intestinal obstruction (ileus)
• Gastrointestinal bleeding
• Etiopathogenesis of peptic ulcer disease
• Alterations of absorption and digestion
• Malabsorption syndromes

SEMINARS

• Implication and evaluation of acid-base imbalance
• Molecular mechanisms of shock
• Heart failure and evaluation of cardiovascular functions
• Pathophysiology of cardiac arrhythmias
• Functional aspects of respiratory system alterations
• Alcoholism and drug abuse and dependence

LABS

• Fluid and electrolyte alterations
• Acid-base imbalances
• Pathophysiology of shock
• Pathological ECG
• Pathophysiology of ischaemic heart disease
• Alterations of the respiratory system
• Anaemias (introductory class)