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Module guide WS 2018-2022

Module UngenutztLS4025-KP05

Clinical Aspects of Infection (ClinAspX)

Duration:


1 Semester
Turnus of offer:


each winter semester
Credit points:


5
Course of studies, specific field and terms:
  • Master Infection Biology 2012 (compulsory), Clinical Aspects, 1st semester
Classes and lectures:
  • Clinical aspects of infection (exercise, 1 SWS)
  • Clinical aspects of infection (lecture, 3 SWS)
Workload:
  • 90 Hours in-classroom work
  • 60 Hours private studies
Contents of teaching:
  • Clinical background: Clinical characteristics and diagnostical approaches of the most important infectious diseases. Pathophysiological background on the occurence of systemic and local clinical symptoms and disease-specific clinical pictures. Introduction in the most relevant instrumental and laboratory techniques for the diagnosis of infections. Established and novel strategies in the treatment of infectious diseases with respect to the emergence of multi-drug resistant pathogens.
  • Modern therapeutic approaches
  • Clinical epidemiology: Introduction into epidemiology; What is normal? Diagnosis; Frequencies; Registers and data sources; Geographical epidemiology; Study designs (RCT, cohort study, case control study, cross sectional study); Effect measures; Causality; Chance, bias and confounding; Control of errors.
  • Assessment of scientific articles on the basis of clinical epidemiology
Qualification-goals/Competencies:
  • Basic knowledge on clinical aspects of infectious diseases
  • Students are able to explain technical terms such as disease register, incidence, prevalence, mortality, lethality.
  • Students are able to explain and to interprete epidemiological measures.
  • Students are able explain which study design is appropiate for which specific study question.
  • Students are able to judge if the methods that were used in a particular study will result in valid or biased results.
  • Students are able to formally and critically appraise the internal and external validty and the reporting quality of a scientific paper by means of checklists.
  • Soft Skills: By means of small group discussions students' communication competencys and capacity to team work should be increased.
  • Understanding the links between clinic - infection medicine for diagnosis, patient management and therapyBasic knowledge on clinical aspects of infectious diseases
Grading through:
  • continuous participation in all courses of the module
  • Written or oral exam as announced by the examiner
Responsible for this module:
  • Prof. Dr. med. Jan Rupp
Teachers:
  • Prof. Dr. med. Jan Rupp
  • Prof. Dr. med. Alexander Katalinic
  • Prof. Dr. med. Johannes Knobloch
  • Prof. Dr. Christoph Lange
  • PD Dr. rer. nat. Annika Waldmann
  • Dipl.-Inf. Heiner Fauteck
  • Dr. rer. hum. biol. Nora Eisemann
  • Dr. med. Gunar Günther
  • Dr. med. Claudia Jafari
  • Prof. Dr. med. Christian Sina
  • Dr. med. Barbara Kalsdorf
  • Dr. med. Jochen Krajewski
  • Dr. med. Jan Heyckendorf
  • Dr. med. Maria Raili Noftz
Literature:
  • Mims, Nash, Stephen: Mims' Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease - 5th edition
  • Fletcher. Fletcher & Fletcher: Clinical Epidemiology. The Essentials. 5th edition
Language:
  • offered only in English
Notes:

Regular participation in lectures and exercizes is mandatory for admittance to the written exam.
Absence with a valid excuse can be granted up to a total of two terms.

Letzte Änderung:
28.11.2024