About the Course
Most of the life sciences adopt a reductionist approach, focusing on a single component of a complex living system rather than the system as a whole. But physiology adopts an integrated and holistic approach of bringing all the components together to understand how a living being works.
This course on general physiology begins with an introduction to physiology, its historical perspective and discusses other general aspects such as the fundamentals of physiological principles, the cell, its components and functions, transport mechanisms in the body, principles of growth and the theories on aging etc., with an emphasis on the integrative and mechanistic functions of normal physiology, exploring at the same time, the abnormal functions that occur in many diseases.
Target Audience
Medical students – Allopathy, Dental.
Alternative Medicine students – Homeopathy, Ayurveda, Chiropractic, Naturopathy, Acupuncture.
Para/Allied medical students – Nursing, Physiotherapy, Medical lab technicians, BSc Physiology.
Post graduate students – MD/MSc/PhD Physiology, General medicine, Family medicine.
Course Delivery Format
This course is delivered entirely online. It consists of a series of comprehensive lectures by a professor in the subject, appropriately annotated with slides, animations and wherever necessary, interactive content. The delivery offers tremendous flexibility. You may pause a teacher while you refer to your textbooks (not includes) and to take notes. You may also rewind a segment to listen to the teacher again or you may skip a slide or two if you already know that bit. You may bookmark a segment that you wish to return to later, maybe to refresh just before your exams. While the lessons in this course may be arranged in a particular order based on our curriculum, you have the flexibility to take them in order of your preference based on your personalized learning needs.
Benefits
While this course is to help you learn the subject from an online faculty, it may help you in several ways even if you are already enrolled in some medical, dental or paramedical school. Many of our students felt that the format in which this course is delivered has helped them to cope up against the fast paced lectures in actual class – it’s like having a TV remote in class to self-pace your teacher. Animations help understand concepts better by making concepts easy to understand… and difficult to forget.
Priwinder Iyer
Osmania Medical College