Knowledge of the structure and function of the human body both in health and in illness is essential for the practice of medicine.

This module provides and understanding and an ability to manage a comprehensive range of health problemes using the scientific principles that underpin medicine. It comprises learning units covering different learning units: - Life Structure: musculo-skeletal system, rheumatology, orthopaedics, traumatology, plastic surgery, skin and dermatology - Life Cycle: reproduction and development, child health (paediatrics), obstetrics and gynaecology, sexual health, ageing, death - Life Maintenance: alimentary system including liver, gastroenterology, endocrinology, renal medicine, urology, nutrition - Life Protection: immunology, infection, haematology, oncology, preventative medicine, genito-urinary medicine - Life Support: cardiology/cardiovascular surgery, respiratory medicine, ENT - Life Control: nervous system, neurology/neurosurgery, vision and ophthalmology, psychiatry, psychology These units are also contained in the 'Knowledge of Health & Illness' domain in Year 1 of the programme (BM4001). In Year 2, these units are again visited but in far greater depth than in Year 1. This approach ensures that the programme in the first two years is vertically integrated.

This module builds on the teaching and learning in Knowledge of Health and Illness 1 (BM4001). In revisiting the learning units in BM4001 the module aims to vertically integrate knowledge of health and illness in the major body systems. While the major focus is on structure and function of the human body in health there is an increasing emphasis on disease states in this module. Explain the normal structure and function of the individual and of each of the major body organ systems Describe the Life Cycle Recognise diseases, their causes & the ways in which they change the structure and function of the human body Be able to apply pharmacological principles when choosing, evaluating and monitoring drug treatments Apply the principles of therapeutics to the management of disease states.

While this module focuses on the cognitive domain, the horizonal integration of Year 2 is such that there is a significant overlap with the affective domain (i.e. the Professional Competencies - BM4022).

While this module focuses on the cognitive domain, the horizontal integration of the course, including in Year 2, is such that there is a significant overlap with the psychomotor domain (i.e. Clinical Skills - BM4012).

In Years 1 & 2 of the programme students get a thorough grounding in the basic sciences relevant to medicine through the study of 66 carefully designed PBL (Problem Based Learning) cases. There are pre-determined learning objectives for every week. These will be explicitly stated in both the æStudent GuideÆ and æTutor GuideÆ that have been developed for each PBL case. In the relevant week, there are several scheduled lectures and laboratory practicals that relate to these specific learning objectives. However, the biomedical sciences are predominantly studied in the context of clinical PBL cases.