Undergraduate Course: Implantation to Parturition (REBI10002)
Course Outline
| School | School of Biomedical Sciences |
College | College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | An optional module suitable for Reproductive Biology Honours dealing with the following: Preparation of the endometrium and implantation; Maternal Recognition of pregnancy; Risks to mother during pregnancy; assessment of fetal growth and wellbeing; Initiation of labour. |
| Course description |
Not entered
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
The course is made up of a series of lectures to allow the student to gain an understanding of the physiological processes of pregnancy and birth, with insight into the clinical issues and experimental models. By the end of the course you will be able to:
¿ Discuss the physiological processes of implantation, establishment and maintenance of pregnancy, and the control of labour;
¿ Explain the control of fetal development and growth, programming of the fetus within the uterus to influence wellbeing in later life, and the adaptations the fetus undergoes from the intra- to the extra-uterine environment;
¿ Describe the main clinical problems that can arise during pregnancy and labour, and to discuss the underlying pathophysiology, and
¿ Critically analyse some of the main animal and in vitro models used in pregnancy and parturition research
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Additional Class Delivery Information |
Little France |
| Keywords | RBIMP |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Simon Riley
Tel: (0131) 242 6423
Email: Simon.C.Riley@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Patricia Law
Tel: (0131 6)50 3161
Email: Anne.Law@ed.ac.uk |
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