Entry requirements

For admission to a new term, passed compulsory parts are required from previous terms and all examinations, except one from the nearest previous term, must be passed. After interruption of studies, it is required that all courses from the previous terms are passed.

The education follows a course of studies, which implies that the courses should be taken in an established order.

Learning outcomes

The teaching should provide knowledge of the body uptake of nutrients and these storing and use for energy-intensive processes. Thereby, a basis for continued theoretical and clinical studies within the physician programme and future work is created.

Aims of the course

After the course, the student should:

- be able to classify the nutrients that are quantitatively important concerning energy and health, and be able to account for characteristics of these subjects that are of significance in the context

- be able to account both for the structure of the digestive tract respective the grease tissue at the macro anatomic and histological level, and for the functions in connection with uptake and storing of different nutrients of these bodies

- be able to account for transport, distribution, storing and releasement in the body of different nutrients

- be able to account for the use of nutrients in the metabolism of the body in both oxygen independent and oxygen dependent energy transformation processes

- be able to explain the role enzymes have in the metabolism and how their activity is regulated

- be able to explain the importance of these processes (see previous point) for the energy-intensive activities of the body

- be able to account for biochemical and physiological factors that limit physical capacity and be able to explain how one can measure physical capacity with ergometer bike

- be able to account for the oxygen life necessary and potential harmful, role and for the most important cell-protective anti-oxidant mechanisms

- be able to account for how alcohol, especially ethanol, be metabolised and for short - and long metabolic effects of alcohol intake

- be able to account for how a diet anamnesis be prepared and evaluated and explain basic concepts within the nutrition

Content

The teaching comprises:

Basic biochemistry

Tissues and bodies cellular and molecular structure and function

Metabolism and metabolic regulation

The uptakes and use of the nutrients

Instruction

Take place in the form of case studies, lectures, laboratory sessions, microscopy exercises and computer-based studies of organ system.

Assessment

For regulatory framework about absence from compulsory parts and rules for participation in examination, see programme syllabus in the students' guide.

Students who have not passed the examination have a right to attend 4 additional examinations (i.e. 5 examinations in total). If special circumstances apply, the programme committee may admit additional examinations. Every time the student participates in an examination counts. Submission of so called blank exam is counted as an examination. The student has the right to request a change of examiner after two failed examinations.