Course description:

Physiology is one of the most important basic medical sciences. The aim of physiology is to cultivate high quality medical students with abilities of mastering the basic medical knowledges and theories, the basic experiment skills, the competence in analysing and solving problems and the creative spirit. 

Physiology is a science of studying various kinds of life phenomena and their laws of activities, and is a subject about body function that students first contact after they complete the normal human morphology courses. The contents include the important physiological functions of systems and organs of human body, as well as the principles of regulation on their acitivities. Through the learning and comprehending of important physiological functions of different organs in each chapter, students are enabled to fully understand the relationship between the structure and function of human body. 

Physiological experiments are carried out to train students’ basic skill.  Furthermore, to cultivate the students’ ablility of medical logic thinking, analyzing, comprehensionand innovation consciousness. The human physiology is an important foundation of pharmacology, pathophysiology and related clinical sciences. It plays a crucial role in the study of the following subjects in the medical education for overseas students.

Teaching Philosophy and Objectives of the Course

 (English Teaching or Bilingual Teaching)

English Teaching or Bilingual Teaching is adopted in this course, and to implement and carry forward bilingual teaching is one of the most important contents among the teaching reforms of our college. The teaching philosophy of this course is: with the aim of improving students’ professional competence and English proficiency, the bilingual teaching of physiology class should focus on fostering students’ international perspective and competitive capacity and nurturing medical talents with both Chinese awareness and international view in this new century. Besides, students’level of mastering professional knowledge should not be affected by the bilingual teaching. Students in the bilingual teaching intensive training classes are selected from clinical medical students who have already finished their first year in college. Via learning Specialty English, students are expected to be able to improve their abilities in reading original English literature and communicating with English so that their learning ability in professional knowledge will be promoted and scope of their professional knowledge will also be broadened.

The orientation and objective of this course in the professional training program are: as an essential basic course, it requires students of mastering normal functions and regulations (neural regulation and humoral regulation) of human body systems and solidifying their theoretical knowledge and fostering their ability of practice and scientific research via laboratory classes (classical experiments, exploratory experiments, experiment designs etc.) so as to lay a solid foundation for students’ future clinical courses, which enables students to better adapt to the needs of society.

A full course of study is required as following:

 1. 40% of total assessment scores, including

 (1) Test: 20% of the total score. 

 (2) Discussion: 10% of total score. Take part in the discussion initiated by the teacher and reply to the request for at least one class discussion.

 (3) Homework: 10% of the total evaluation results. You are required to complete the homework assigned by the teacher. The homework adopts two kinds of evaluation methods: teacher evaluation and student mutual evaluation. Students who do not participate in the mutual evaluation only get 50% of the homework scores, and students who complete the mutual evaluation get 100% of the homework scores.

2. Examination: 60% of total score. 

The final certificate is issued by the teacher, in which the total score ≥60 is qualified.