This course is a general physiology course designed to train 
Veterinary Professional and Graduate students in principles of 
general physiology to allow them to succeed in upper-level 
clinical and graduate courses.  This course will serve as a 
prerequisite for many upper-level Professional and Graduate 
courses.  Grading is accomplished by examination at 
approximately 3- to 4-week intervals with a cumulative final 
exam.  

Learning outcomes will include development of an active 
approach to learning physiology that will lead to successful 
completion of advanced courses and degree programs.  This 
active approach to learning basic physiological principles and 
incorporating new information pertinent to these principles 
will allow future graduates to use physiological evidence as 
one of the bases to solve clinical problems in Veterinary 
Medicine as well as provide a rational basis for design of 
research experiments in physiology.

Second Semester		
Lectures 1-11	GI Physiology	
	*Oral cavity, esophagus	
	*Stomach	
	*Pancreas, Liver	
	*Small Intestine, Large Intestine	
Lectures 12-45	Endocrine Physiology	
	*Pituitary	
	*Thyroid, parathyroid	
	*Adrenal gland	
	*Pancreas	
	*Reproduction	Includes: hypothalamo-pituitary-gonadal 
axis, fertilization, embryogenesis, organogenesis, pregnancy, 
parturition, pharmacology of reproduction

Students will be tested approximately every 15 lectures with 
cumulative final exams at the end of each semester.

Graduate students will be required to participate in additional 
neurophysiology material in semester 1 and with endocrinology 
literature review with report in semester 2 for graduate credit.