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Class of 2023
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Session Title:
Action Potential
Teaching Hours:
Teaching and Learning MethodsTotal Scheduled Hours = 1
Lecture = 1
Description:
Physiology
Keywords:
Teaching and Learning Methods
Lecture 1 hour(s)

Learning Objectives
Blueprint ID Learning Objectives
7130 Define, and identify on a diagram of a neuron, the following regions: dendrites, axon, axon hillock, soma, and synaptic cleft.
7132 Describe how the activity of voltage-gated Na+ and K+channels generates an action potential and the roles of those channels in each phase of the action potential.
7133 Describe how signal flows in one direction through a network of neurons.
7134 Compare conduction velocities in a nerve, identifying how the diameter and myelination lead to differences in conduction velocity.

Linked Course Goal(s) to Session
Blueprint ID Course Goals
7023 Integrate basic and clinical sciences as they relate to common clinical encounters and patient symptoms
Linked Program Competencies
To This Course Goal:
me-6
Linked Program Competencies To Course Goal(s)
me-6 Medical Expert
Apply knowledge of the clinical, socio-behavioural, and fundamental biomedical sciences relevant to a clinical problem.

Linked MCC Medical Expert Objectives
CENTRAL/PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHIC PAIN
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DELIRIUM
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DIZZINESS AND VERTIGO
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MOVEMENT DISORDERS, INVOLUNTARY / TIC DISORDERS
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NERVE INJURY
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NUMBNESS / TINGLING / ALTERED SENSATION
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SEIZURES / EPILEPSY
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WEAKNESS (not caused by Cerebrovascular Accident)
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