Foundations of Medicine

Chapter 1: Cell Adaptation, Injury and Death 1. Ischemia and other toxic injuries increase the accumulation of intracellular calcium as a result of: A) release of stored calcium from the mitochondria. B) improved intracellular volume regulation. C) decreased influx across the cell membrane. D) attraction of calcium to fatty infiltrates. 2. The patient is found to have liver disease, resulting in the removal of a lobe of his liver. Adaptation to the reduced size of the liver leads to _ of t...

A simple table summarising the different types of surface epithelia , their functions and locations. Histological diagrams of each type are included.

Pharmacology lecture notes

In order to understand many things in medicine, it is important to have a solid understanding of what happens at a cellular level. In my first year at medical school, I made sure to make thorough notes on everything because I had never come across most of these concepts and I wanted to be able to understand whem when looking back on them. I hope that they will be able to help you too! Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

Carbohydrates, Fats and Proteins. These lecture notes provide in-depth information about how these macronutrients are broken down into their constituent micronutrients so that they can be used to produce energy within the body. These processes are much more complex than I thought they would be and so I wrote my notes that made it much easier for me to understand and this also involved a lot of research online. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.

People believe medicine involves learning about the human body and its organs and how to fix them. Although this is partially true, to be a doctor, it is important to understand how human physiology works at a cellular and sub-cellular level so that we can understand WHY organs go wrong and so that we can identify which drugs to use to prevent disease from occurring. These lecture notes introduce how cells link to disease and how disease can be identified. Please feel free to contact me if you h...

As well as understanding anatomy and the physiology of the human body, in medicine, it is also important to understand the ethics behind medical practice and to learn how to be professional in many different situations. This lecture provides an introduction to medical ethics and professionalism.

A detailed summary of the lecture on the final primary body tissue, nervous tissue. Includes relevant anatomy and histology as well as the structure and function of nervous tissue.

A brief overview of the different body systems, organs, membranes and tissues.