Modules

• Year 1
  • Introduction to Year 1 and Year Outcomes
  • Fundamentals of Medicine
  • Cardiorespiratory 1
  • Metabolism 1
  • Locomotor 1
  • Brain and Behaviour 1
  • Human Development 1
  • Medicine in Society 1
  • Clinical Communication Skills
  • Student Selected Component (SSC)
• Year 2
  • Introduction to Year 2 and Year Outcomes
  • Cardiorespiratory 2
  • Metabolism 2
  • Brain and Behaviour 2
  • Human Development 2
  • Human Sciences and Public Health 2
  • Locomotor 2
  • Cancer Week
  • Moving and Handling Training
  • Year 2 Lifesaver Programme
  • Clinical Communication Skills
  • Medicine in Society 2
  • Extended Patient Contact
  • Student Selected Component (SSC)
• Year 3
  • Introduction to Year 3 and Year Outcomes
  • Clinical Science and Professionalism (Weeks 1-3)
  • Cardiovascular, Respiratory and Haematology (CR3)
  • Gastroenterology and Cancer (MET3A)
  • Public Health
  • Endocrinology and Renal Medicine (MET3B)
  • General Practice and Community Care
  • Student Selected Component (SSC)
  • Clinical and Communication Skills
• Year 4
  • Introduction and Year 4 Outcomes
  • Obstetrics and Gynaecology
  • Child Health
  • HIV & Sexual Health
  • Musculoskeletal
  • Health Care of the Elderly
  • Neuroscience
  • Dermatology
  • General Practice and Community Care
  • Psychiatry
  • Ear, Nose and Throat
  • Global Health and Ethics
  • Ophthalmology
  • Clinical & Communication Skills
  • Student Selected Component (SSC)
• Year 5
  • Introduction to Year 5 and Year Outcomes
  • Teaching Week 1
  • Teaching Week 2
  • Anaesthesia & ITU (AN & ITU)
  • Breaking Bad News
  • Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics
  • Community Care
  • Doctors as Teachers and Educators (DATE)
  • Emergency Medicine (EMERG MED)
  • General (Internal) Medicine (G(I)M)
  • Immediate Life Support (ILS)
  • Student Assistantship
  • Simulation
  • Surgery
  • Student Selected Component (SSC)
• Year GEP 1
  • Cancer Week
  • Movement and Posture
  • Carriage of Oxygen
  • Human Sciences and Public Health
  • Digestion, Growth and Metabolism
  • Infection and Immunity
  • Ethics
  • Brain and Behaviour
  • Human Development
  • Clinical Communication Skills
  • Medicine in Society (GEP)

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Year 1 HD1: Human Development 1

• Dr Peter King
• p.j.king@qmul.ac.uk

Teaching Material for this Module

Introduction

Overall Aims

The course aims to ensure familiarity with the following aspects of human development:

1.       The basic structure and anatomy of the pelvic region.

2.       The events of embryonic development.

3.       The changes that occur at puberty.

4.       The factors that allow for fertilisation, implantation and normal pregnancy.

5.       The process of birth and the physiological changes that occur in the baby.

6.       Normal growth and development before and after birth and mechanisms for preventing disease.

7.       Breast and bottle feeding.

8.       The function of the various agencies that work with children, both statutory and voluntary.

9.       The normal social, cognitive, language and emotional development of childhood and adolescence.

10.    Contraception and the control of fertility.

11.    The changes that occur as a result of ageing.

Sessions

• Lecture: Development of Abilities in Children

  Teaching Material for this Session

  1. Understand the progress of motor and sensory development in childhood and its neurological basis.
  2. Describe the progress of language development in infancy and childhood.
  3. Describe the growth of cognitive abilities in childhood.
  4. Understand the methods by which development may be objectively assessed in young children
• Lecture: Reproductive Endocrinology and the Menstrual Cycle

  Teaching Material for this Session

  1. Describe the origins of steroids, prostaglandins and glycoproteins.
  2. Outline how normal menstrual function is related to conception
• Lecture: Anatomy of the Pelvis

  Teaching Material for this Session

  1. Understand the structure of the bony pelvis and its ligaments.
  2. Describe the walls of the pelvic cavity.
  3. Pelvic measurements in obstetrics.
  4. Describe the pelvic diaphragm.
  5. Outline the consequences of injuries to the pelvic floor leading to prolapse of the pelvic viscera.
• Lecture: Oogenesis and the Ovarian Cycle

  Teaching Material for this Session

  1. Identify the hormones released during the ovarian cycle and explain how they act on the endometrium.
  2. Explain the normal ovarian cycle
  3. Understand the normal process of ovulation.
  4. Describe the normal processes of oogenesis and ovulation leading to a normal ovarian cycle
  5. Understand that ovarian and menstrual cycles are closely linked.
• Lecture: Spermatogenesis and Fertilization

  Teaching Material for this Session

  1. Summarise the important features of implantation and placentation.
  2. Indicate how there is maternal recognition of pregnancy.
  3. Describe the normal process of spermatogenesis
  4. Describe the essential ingredients for fertilisation
  5. Explain the normal processes which occur from fertilisation to implantation
• Lecture: Implantation and Placental Function

  Teaching Material for this Session

  1. Describe implantation, the development of the placenta and the establishment of the feto-maternal circulation
  2. Explain the function of the placenta in supporting fetal development
  3. Understand maternal recognition of pregnancy
• Lecture: Pelvic Viscera & Perineum

  Teaching Material for this Session

  1. Have knowledge of the organs of the pelvis.
  2. Describe the anatomy of the perineum, its divisions and layers.
  3. State the difference between the deep and superficial pouches and the structures found within.
  4. Understand similarities and differences between male and female erectile tissue
• Lecture: The Development & Sexual Differentiation of the Reproductive System

  Teaching Material for this Session

  1. Outline the development of the reproductive system
  2. Describe the descent of the testes and the development of the inguinal canal
  3. Understand the structure of the pelvic viscera in the male
  4. Understand the structure of female reproductive organs
  5. Understand the descent of the ureters through the pelvis and the position of the bladder and urethra in the male and female
• Lecture: Embryology: Major Organ System Development

  Teaching Material for this Session

  1. Understand the difference between embryonic and fetal periods of development and the clinical significance to organ development and growth
  2. Highlights of week 4, to include the closure of the neural tube, folding of the embryo, the pharyngeal arches and the beginnings of the limbs.
  3. Highlights of week 5, to include the growth of the head and heart and kidneys.
  4. Highlights of week 6, to include, progress of the development of the limbs and heart and start of spontaneous movements.
  5. Highlights of week 7, to include the importance of cell death to shape the limbs and face and the growth and development of the gut.
  6. Highlights of week 8, to include bone formation and more of the development of the gut.
• Lecture: Physiology of Pregnancy

  Teaching Material for this Session

  1. Describe the physiological changes in pregnancy, with particular reference to maternal cardiovascular, respiratory, haematological and endocrine systems.
  2. Explain the physiological changes prior to parturition.
  3. Describe the physiological changes in preparation for lactation
• Lecture: Labour and Delivery

  Teaching Material for this Session

  1. Describe the signs of labour.
  2. Explain the physiological processes involved in parturition.
  3. Describe the stages of normal labour resulting in the delivery of the fetus and placenta.
• Lecture: Contraception

  Teaching Material for this Session

  1. Describe how current contraceptive methods operate through their components.
  2. Outline the advantages and disadvantages of each of the methods of contraception (including post-coital contraception and its dangers).
• Lecture: The Puerperium and Breast Feeding

  Teaching Material for this Session

  1. Demonstrate the normal physiological and anatomical changes associated with the puerperium.
  2. Describe the establishment of breast feeding, and its physiological and anatomical advantages to the mother and infant.
  3. Understand factors preventing the establishment of breast-feeding
• Lecture: Physiological Adaptation from Fetus to Neonate

  Teaching Material for this Session

  1. Understand the processes whereby a fetus makes the transition from being dependent on the placenta to being able to live independently
  2. Understand the circulatory changes at birth and the neonatal transitional circulation
  3. Understand the changes in pulmonary physiology at birth
  4. Describe the basic metabolic adaptations which take place in the neonate
• Lecture: Fundamental Mechanisms in Human Growth and Puberty

  Teaching Material for this Session

  1. Describe the regulation of normal growth
  2. Understand the normal physiological and anatomical changes at puberty
  3. Identify the stages of puberty in boys and girls
  4. Understand the relationships between growth and the onset of puberty
  5. Understand the techniques of measuring children of all ages and be able to plot and interpret measurements on a growth chart
  6. Understand the biological features influencing normal growth patterns
• Lecture: Congenital Defects

  Teaching Material for this Session

  1. Define when the embryonic and fetal periods of development are and relate to the incidence of congenital defects.
  2. Describe the major causes of congenital defects.
  3. How congenital defects are defined as major or minor defects.
• Lecture: Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

  Teaching Material for this Session

  1. Define stem cells
  2. List the sources of stem cells and explain their differences.
  3. Outline biological regulation of stem cells
  4. Describe ethical, moral and legal issues surrounding stem cell research
  5. Describe potential clinical applications for stem cells, including the challenges that must be overcome.
  6. Understand how stem cells can be use in a research laboratory to study disease.
• Lecture: The Processes of Human Ageing

  Teaching Material for this Session

  1. Briefly outline the patterns of disease noted in human development and diseases of premature ageing
  2. The learning objectives will be issued at the start of or during the module
  3. Briefly outline the patterns of disease noted in human development and diseases of premature ageing
  4. Outline the current theories on human ageing
• Lecture: Ethical and Legal Aspects of Fetal life, Childhood and Ageing

  Teaching Material for this Session

  1. Outline the legal status of the fetus
  2. Describe the legal rights of the child and older people
• Lecture: Cellular Aspects of Ageing

  Teaching Material for this Session

  1. Summarise the changing demographics of ageing
  2. Distinguish between 'normal ageing' and pathologic changes
  3. Discuss genomic control of ageing and longevity
  4. Discuss theories of ageing.
• Lecture: Menopause

  Teaching Material for this Session

  1. Describe the normal physiological and anatomical changes at the menopause.
  2. Describe what investigations can be performed to diagnose the menopause.
  3. Outline the options available to treat the symptoms of the menopause.
• Lecture: Immune Function in the Fetus and Infancy

  Teaching Material for this Session

  1. Describe immunological factors that change during development from fetus to the early years.
  2. Understand passive immunity in the fetus and infancy.
  3. Explain immunological tolerance in neonates.
  4. Outline immuno-deficiencies that present in children.
• Lecture: Immunisation

  Teaching Material for this Session

  1. Indicate the development of the immune system, including the function of lymphocytes.
  2. Recognise the normal immunisation programme.
  3. Understand the dangers to the individual and the herd of not immunizing.
  4. Explain the immunological processes enabling protection against disease to take place.
  5. Relate experience in the UK to worldwide programmes of protection.
• Lecture: Normal Behaviour and Emotional Development in Childhood

  Teaching Material for this Session

  1. Describe those characteristics of the infant, child and adolescent which can be considered as normal behaviour.
  2. Understanding of the importance of distinguishing the different stages of development.
  3. Understand psychological development during adolescence.
  4. Understand sexual behaviour during adolescence.
• Phys Practical: Hormones of Reproduction
• Phys Practical: Aspects of Growth
• HD PBL 4: Infant Feeding
• HD PBL 2: Normal Pregnancy and Labour
• HD PBL 3: Adaptation to Extra-Uterine Life
• HD PBL 5: Child Development
• Microanatomy 1: Male and Female Reproductive Systems
• Microanatomy 2: Placental Development

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