Neuropathology

Details

Title

Neuropathology

Type

Stage One

Module code

HLS392

Requirement

Compulsory

Module objective

By the end of the training period trainees will, in respect to background and principles, be able to:

• Analyse, synthesise, evaluate and apply knowledge
• Perform a range of technical and clinical skills and procedures
• Demonstrate the attitudes and behaviours necessary for professional practice as a consultant clinical scientist dealing with the complexities, uncertainties and tensions of professional practice at this level.

Knowledge and understanding

• Demonstrates knowledge and basic neuroanatomy and histology and basic entities and disease processes affecting the nervous system:
• Basic neuroanatomy and histology
• Basic pathophysiology (e.g., cellular reactions to injury, cerebral oedema, raised intracranial pressure and herniation, and hydrocephalus)
• Trauma
• Cerebrovascular diseases
• Infections
• Human prion diseases (very basic knowledge with emphasis on health and safety)
• Demyelinating diseases
• Degenerative diseases
• Genetic, toxic and acquired metabolic diseases (basic knowledge)
• Epilepsy and the concept of sudden and unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP)
• Tumours (e.g., primary versus metastatic, paraneoplastic syndromes, and familial tumour syndromes)

Technical and clinical skills

• An indicative two fixed brain examinations with demonstration of basic neuroanatomy and macroscopic abnormalities, as appropriate
• Demonstrates observation of or participation in adult neuro-oncology multidisciplinary meetings, the clinical neuroscience Grand Round or equivalent clinical neuroscience encounter