ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 99 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 24 Interactive Classroom: 24 Total: 150
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Physiology
Areas: Physiology
Center Faculty of Optics and Optometry
Call: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable | 1st year (Yes)
The objectives are:
1) Knowledge of the structure and normal functions of the organism and of the organs and systems that integrate it, mostly those related to the visual system
2) General knowledge of the molecular, biochemical and cellular mechanisms that allow the maintenance of the homeostasis, especially those regarding the visual system
Prof. ROMÁN PÉREZ (25 hours of theoretical lessons):
- Cellular physiology: regulation and communication. Internal medium
- General principles of the endocrine system
- Gastrointestinal and urinary systems
- Respiratory system
- Circulatory system
Prof. OLGA BARCA MAYO (13 hours of theoretical lessons):
- General physiology of the excitable cells: Bioelectrical properties of the membrane. - Ionic Channels. - Action Potential.
- Neuron: Synapse and synaptic potentials. Membrane receptors. Neurotransmitters.
- Channels of the motor end plate: neuromuscular transmission.
- Autonomous nervous system.
- Skeletal, smooth and cardiac muscles: general properties and mechanisms of contraction
Basic bibliography
Textbook of Medical Physiology. Arthur C Guyton. McGraw-Hill-Interamericana
Medical Physiology. Rodney A Rhoades. Masson-Little Brown
Medical Physiology. Boron & Boulpaep. Saunders
Principles of Neuroscience. E. R. Kandel, J. H. Schwartz, T. M. Jessell. McGraw Hill.
Complementary bibliography
Manual de Neurociencia. JM Delgado. Ed. Síntesis. Madrid
Neuroscience. Purves et al. Panamericana
Fundamental Neuroscience. L. R. Squire et al. Elsevier.
Basic skills.
BS1 - That students have demonstrated to possess and understand knowledge in an area of study that starts from the base of general secondary education, and is usually found at a level that, although supported by advanced textbooks, also includes some aspects that imply knowledge coming from the vanguard of their field of study.
BS2 - That students know how to apply their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional manner and possess the skills that are usually demonstrated through the elaboration and defense of arguments and the resolution of problems within their area of study.
BS3 - That students have the ability to gather and interpret relevant data (usually within their area of study) to make judgments that include a reflection on relevant issues of social, scientific or ethical nature.
BS4 - That students can transmit information, ideas, problems and solutions to a specialized and non-specialized public.
BS5 - That the students have developed those learning skills necessary to undertake further studies with a high degree of autonomy.
Specific competences
SC1 - That the student be able to critically reflect on clinical, scientific, ethical and social issues involved in the professional practice of Optometry, understanding the scientific foundations of Optics-Optometry and learning to critically evaluate terminology, clinical trials and research methodology related to Optics-Optometry.
SC2 - That the student can assess and incorporate the technological advances necessary for the proper development of their professional activity.
SC3 - That the student can expand and update their capacities for professional practice through continuous training.
SC4 - That the student knows how to situate the new information and the interpretation of it in its context.
Transversal competences
TC1 - That they acquire analysis and synthesis capacity.
TC2 - That they acquire capacity for organization and planning.
TC3 - That they acquire the knowledge of a foreign language.
TC4 - That they acquire computer skills related to the field of study.
TC5 - That they acquire information management capacity.
TC6 - That they acquire the ability to solve problems.
TC7 - That they acquire skills in decision making.
TC8 - That they know how to work as a team.
Face-to-face lessons: physical class attendance, 3 times per week, during the first semester. In the theoretical lessons, student participation will be encouraged, as well as their critical spirit.
Seminars / Interactive Classes: These classes will be compulsory. Topics will be presented to deepen the concepts previously exposed in the theoretical lessons. Students are expected to participate actively.
Tutorized activities.
Students can request tutoring whenever they require it, by previously contacting the professors via email. Students are recommended to use the tutorized activities.
These assessment criteria will be valid for the ordinary semester and extraordinary recovery opportunities.
The General Physiology exam will be carried out on a date and time previously established by the Faculty of Optics and Optometry.
The General Physiology exam will be carried out on a date and time previously established by the Faculty of Optics and Optometry.
The exam will be done by physical attendance. It will consist of a multiple-choice test. The number of questions from each professor will be equal or proportional to the number of hours of theoretical lessons. The course is indivisible and is passed or failed in its entirety. The exam will constitute 80% of the final grade. It will be necessary to obtain 60% of total success in the exam and a minimum of 40% of success in the questions posed by each professor to sum the scores obtained in the continuous evaluation.
Attendance to the classroom or online classes and the realization of academic activities proposed through the virtual classroom will sum 20% of the final grade, provided that the minimum required in the final exam is reached.
Class assistance and 3 weekly hours of study
• Assistance to lectures
• To check the recommended bibliography in the library
• Use the material from the virtual classroom
• Make use of the tutorials
• Do the activities proposed through the virtual classroom.
In cases of fraudulent performance of exercises or tests, the provisions of the Regulations for the evaluation of student academic performance and review of grades will apply.
For any problem, comment or suggestion regarding the development of teaching contact the subject coordinator:
olga.barca.mayo [at] usc.es (olga[dot]barca[dot]mayo[at]usc[dot]es)
CIMUS, Oficina 4, Planta 2, Avenida de Barcelona s/n, Santiago de Compostela
Juan Bautista Zalvide Torrente
- Department
- Physiology
- Area
- Physiology
- Phone
- 881815414
- juan.zalvide [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
Roman Perez Fernandez
Coordinador/a- Department
- Physiology
- Area
- Physiology
- Phone
- 881815421
- roman.perez.fernandez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
Celia Maria Pombo Ramos
- Department
- Physiology
- Area
- Physiology
- Phone
- 881815413
- celiamaria.pombo [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
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