Mechanisms of Disease

The unit aims to enable students to make progress towards meeting some of the learning outcomes described in Tomorrow's Doctors (2018) relevant to 'The Doctor as a Scholar and Scientist' and 'The Doctor as a Professional'. The specific aim is to enable students to develop an understanding of basic pathological processes which will help them to understand the diseases they will study in other modules. An appreciation of the mechanisms of disease facilitates an understanding of the symptoms with which patients present, the physical signs which they demonstrate and their abnormal investigation results. It allows an appreciation of how various therapeutic interventions affect disease processes.