Phase I Revision Week (Part 3)

Revision Session: Wednesday, 27 April 2011, 9.30am-10.30am, Prof Faridah

QUESTIONS FROM STUDENTS

1. What is important in Cardiovascular System Block? Since Doctor Adibah is not here, will her question still come out? [Please ask Physiology]
2. Will the following come out? (i) Regulation of gene expression. (ii) Application of molecular biology in medicine. [Either one]
3. Can Prof summarize these? (i) Fat metabolism. (ii) Regulation of fat metabolism. (iii) Lipoprotein metabolism. (iv) Cholesterol metabolism. [Type each title in Google and revise from the Internet pages]
4. Prof, are these coming out? (i) Transamination and oxidative deamination of amino acids. (ii) Catabolism of amino acids. [Yes, but a bit different though. You must know the 3 categories of amino acids - i. purely glucogenic, ii. purely ketogenic, and iii. mixed, i.e., both glucogenic & ketogenic, and where they participate in metabolism. They are important for normal nutrition and for parenteral nutrition.]
5. How about questions from Cell and Tissue, and Musculoskeletal Blocks? [Cell Tissue - please revise the basic general structure of all molecules learned so far, ~50 structures? Musculoskeletal - energy supply for exercising muscles.]
6. Prof, is Urea cycle coming out? [Yes, I think]
7. How about Bioethics Block? [Please ask Community/Family Medicine & Medical Education]
8. How about Vitamin A (CNS Block) and Vitamin D (Musculoskeletal System Block)? [CNS Block - Visual cycle and structures of vitamin A. M/S Block - Vitamin D synthesis and modifications in the various organs.]
9. In Endocrine Block, 4 lectures that doc conducted, which should we really concentrate? [Either endo- or exogenous lipoprotein pathway or HDL metabolism - reverse cholesterol transport.]
10. What should we concentrate on biochem for OSPE? [Urine dipstick - either diabetes or fasting/starvation]

TQ

Prof Faridah