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Biomedical Program Courses Overview. Principles of the Biomedical Sciences Human Body Systems Medical Interventions Biomedical Innovation – Senior Capstone. Principles of the Biomedical Sciences. Course Overview.
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Biomedical Program Courses Overview Principles of the Biomedical Sciences Human Body Systems Medical Interventions Biomedical Innovation – Senior Capstone
Course Overview • Students apply their knowledge and skills to answer questions or to solve problems related to the biomedical sciences. • Students present the results of their work to an adult audience, which may include representatives from the local healthcare or business community or the school’s PLTWpartnership team.
Course Overview What caused the death of Anna Garcia? Students are presented with a mysterious death that they work to determine the cause of death. The units of the course then focus on the medical conditions presented in the autopsy.
Unit 2: Heart Attack Heart Rate Blood Pressure EKG
Unit 3: Diabetes • Introduction to basic inorganic chemistry and biochemistry • Differences between type I and type II diabetes • Introduction to cell regulation and metabolism
Unit 3: Diabetes http://www.physicslessons.com/microlabsa.htm http://www2.parl.gc.ca/content/lop/researchpublications/prb0521-e.htm
Unit 4: Sickle Cell Disease • Introduction to inheritance of traits and bioinformatics • Relationship between DNA sequence and protein structure • Use of computer simulations to visualize structures and events too small to view with a microscope
Unit 5: Hypercholesterolemia • Introduction to inheritance of traits and bioinformatics • Relationship between DNA sequence and protein structure • Use of computer simulations to visualize structures and events too small to view with a microscope
Unit 6: Infectious Diseases • Instruction about differences between bacteria and viruses • Instruction on ability of antibiotics to kill bacterial or inhibit bacterial growth • Instruction on basic microbiological procedures, e.g. aseptic technique, inoculation of media, etc.
Unit 7: Medical Interventions • Instruction on direct relationship between technological advances and improvements in medical interventions • Many different types of interventions are available for the same medical condition
Unit 8: Grant Proposal • Open-ended project • Students choose topic • Instruct how to organize and write a grant proposal • Consider having presentations made to partnership team or community members and parents
Course Overview The course focuses on how body systems work together to maintain homeostasis and good health. HBS takes a functional approach to traditional anatomy and physiology concepts. Students learn how different systems of the body work together to complete tasks such as movement, protection, and communication.
Course Overview Students build organs, blood vessels, and nerves on Anatomy in Clay® skeletal manikens®. Unique identity becomes apparent with the addition of each body system. Exploring science in action, students work through interesting real-world cases and often play the role of biomedical professionals to solve medical mysteries.
Unit 1: Identity • Students investigate the body systems and functions that all humans have in common, and then look at differences in tissues, such as bone and muscle, and in molecules, such as DNA, to pinpoint unique identity .
Unit 2: Communication • Students investigate modes of communication within the human body as well as ways humans communicate with the outside world.
Unit 3: Power • Students investigate the human body systems that work to obtain, distribute, or process the body’s primary resources for energy – food, water, and oxygen.
Unit 4: Movement • Students investigate the movement of the human body as well as the movement of substances around the body. • Students combine their knowledge of power and movement to explore exercise physiology.
Unit 5: Protection • Students explore ways in which the human body protects itself from injury or disease.
Unit 6: Homeostasis • Students examine the connections between all of the human body systems and examine how these systems work together to maintain health and homeostasis. • Students begin to discuss and design medical interventions; the activities in this lesson serve as engagement for the subsequent course, Medical Interventions.
Course Overview • Students will be exposed to the variety of medical interventions involved in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease as they follow the lives of a fictitious family. • The interventions will showcase the past, present, and future of biomedical science.
Course Overview • Family case scenarios will address interventions related to: • Immunology • Surgery • Genetics • Pharmacology • Medical Devices • Diagnostics • The course emphasizes preventative interventions as well as the important role scientific thinking and engineering design play in the development of interventions of the future.
Unit 1: How to Fight Infection • Students will follow college freshman Sue Smith through the diagnosis of a mystery infection, as well as through her treatment and follow-up care.
Unit 2: How to Screen What is in Your Genes • Students will follow James and Judy Smith, a couple in their 40s who just learned they are expecting a child, and Gina and Aaron Smith, a young couple with a history of genetic disease who are contemplating starting a family, as they make decisions regarding genetic testing and screening.
Unit 3: How to Conquer Cancer • Students will follow Mike Smith and his family through his battle with cancer.
Unit 4: How to Prevail When Organs Fail • Students will follow Diana Jones through her battle with End Stage Renal Failure caused by Type 1 Diabetes.
Course Overview • Students apply their knowledge and skills to answer questions or to solve problems related to the biomedical sciences. • Students present the results of their work to an adult audience, which may include representatives from the local healthcare or business community or the school’s PLTWpartnership team.
