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SYLLABI FOR DOCTORAL COURSES
Swedish title | Tropisk medicin och infektioner |
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English title | Tropical medicine and infections |
Course number | 2930 |
Credits | 3.0 |
Responsible KI department | Institutionen för global folkhälsa |
Specific entry requirements | |
Grading | Passed /Not passed |
Established by | The Board of Doctoral Education |
Established | 2017-03-21 |
Purpose of the course | To enable doctoral students in the field of global health and/or infectious diseases or with a genuine interest in these areas to acquire good knowledge about: - risk factors for Tropical diseases including living conditions, environment, food, latrines, water, vectors as mosquitoes, domesticated animals. - epidemiology and disease pattern including incidence/prevalence as well as prevention including vaccination and vector control - case management including symptoms, diagnostics, diagnosis and treatments for tropical diseases including Dengue, Malaria, Scrub typhus, Leptospirosis, Rickettsia, Japanese Encephalitis, Cryptosporidiosis/ Cryptosporidium/Crypto, Rabies, Streptococcus suis, tetanus, Melioidosis, Hand foot mouth disease, Parasitic infections, as well as HIV including opportunistic infections and TB, HBV, HCV, nosocomial infections and antibiotic resistance. |
Intended learning outcomes | At the end of the module students will be able to: - understand the living conditions, food habits, and the environment and how that effect the disease pattern in a tropical lower-middle income country. - understand poverty related conditions as malnutrition, kwashiorkor and marasmus, rheumatic fever and stunting. - understand the health seeking pattern and health system as well as the impacts of health seeking behavior in a tropical lower-middle income country. - discuss current issues in tropical medicine and infection research, prevention and control in low and middle income countries - analyse broader context of prevention and control interventions - explain the importance of the pathogenesis and understand the case management of a great variety of infectious diseases |
Contents of the course | Tropical medicine and infection epidemiology, pathogenesis, clinical aspects, diagnostic methods. Principles for therapy. Immunology and vaccines. Public health and socio-economic aspects. New control policies and research strategies. |
Teaching and learning activities | There will be one introduction lecture at Karolinska Institutet prior to departure. The two weeks of the course consist of structured teaching including lectures, seminars, bedside teaching and study visits. - Lectures (might be spread out during the course) a total of two days focusing on the learning outcomes. - Two days in a provincial setting to understand the living conditions and risk factors including environment, food, latrines, water, domesticated animals and vectors. A homestay in a rural family will be arranged. - Bed-side teaching including both adult and pediatric patients at major referral hospitals in big cities. - Group work, e.g family visit and patient cases that are presented and discussed. |
Compulsory elements | All the course activities. Absence might be compensated for through assignments in agreement with the course leader. |
Examination | Formative assessment during group work presentations and discussion. Summative written examination at Karolinska Institutet. |
Literature and other teaching material | Recommended literature: Oxford Handbook of Tropical Medicine Relevant research articles about Tropical Medicine and Infections will be distributed latest at the time of the introductory lecture. |
Course responsible |
Mattias Larsson Institutionen för global folkhälsa 0852483382 Mattias.Larsson@ki.se |
Contact person |
Sven Britton Institutionen för medicin, Solna 0736-870738 Sven.Britton@ki.se |