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35-209 AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM
Department NEUROLOGY Campus Birmingham
Course Type(s) Elective, Third Year Elective Facility UAB Medical Center
Course Director MOHAMED KAZAMEL, MD Enrollment Limit 4
Contact MOHAMED KAZAMEL, MD Enrollment Minimum 1
Email mkazamel@uabmc.edu Address SC 339, zip 0017
Phone 205-934-2120 Fax 205-975-6758
Weeks
Normally Offered
See Offering Dates		 22-23, 24-25, 32-33, 34-35, 36-37, 38-39, 40-41, 42-43, 45-46, 47-48, 49-50, 51-52
Prerequisites * * * WRITTEN APPROVAL REQUIRED * * * Successful completion of Medicine Clerkship. 
Specific Clerkship Prerequisites: Medicine
Visiting Students
No LCME students accepted.
No osteopathic students accepted.
Course Description Students will: 1) Attend four didactic lectures on the anatomical and physiologic basis; and clinical applications of autonomic function testing. 2) Observe the performance and the interpretation of autonomic function testing on different varieties of patients suffering from central and peripheral autonomic nervous system disorders. Learning Objectives: At the end of the course, the student should be able to understand: 1) The physiologic bases of different autonomic tests. 2) The pathophysiology of common dysautonomias like neurogenic orthostatic hypotension, neutrally mediated syncope, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome.
Where To Report Sparks Building, Room 220, 8:00am.
Requirements 1) Attendance of 80% of lectures and teaching sessions; 2) reading of the following teaching material: a) Singer, W, Mauermann, M; and Benarroch, EE. Evaluation of autonomic disorders in Autonomic Neurology, Oxford and New York: Oxford Press, 2014, p: 49-70. B) Cases 18-22 in Sandroni, P and Low, AP. Autonomic Disorders: A cased based approach, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015, p: 60-81.
Evaluation Pass/Fail; based on attendance of lectures and teaching sessions at the autonomic function testing lab; achievement of learning objectives at the end of the elective.
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