Infectious Disease syllabus in China
- The contagious disease or infectious disease is one of the important courses of the
internal medicine and clinical medicine. - In recent years, the concepts of contagious disease shifted towards infectious diseases have been extensively studied. So we prefer to name the course “The infectious disease”.
Course Description:
- After this course, the student should know the following points of infectious disease: (1) The diagnosis, the management and the prophylaxis of the “classic contagious disease”. (2) The pathogenic micro-organism and the clinical feature of the “modern infectious disease”, including the hospital and community-acquired infection. (3) The evolution and the trends of antibiotic resistance among pathogenic micro-organisms. (4) The control of nosocomial infection and the principle by which appropriate use antibiotics in the clinic.
- After the course, the students should be aware of ways to control new infectious diseases with a high risk of spreading rapidly.
Teaching methods
- Self-study
Self-study contents
- Etiology: the life-cycle of schistosome: imago, ova, miracidium, cercaria, schistosomulum
- Epidemiology: patients, cattle, and wild mammals are the sources. The population is susceptible to schistosome. Contact with contaminated water is the most important route, some geographic features involved in the epidemic of the schistosome.
- The pathogenesis and pathology
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- Pathogenesis: cercarial dermatitis; granuloma
- Pathology: liver; spleen; brain; and lung
- Clinical features: acute/chronic schistosomiasis, advanced stage
- Complication: upper gastrointestinal bleeding, hepatic coma, colon carcinoma
- Laboratory test: CBC; liver function test, feces study
- Diagnosis and differential diagnosis: schistosomiasis should be differentiated with amebic liver abscess, tuberculous peritonitis, and chronic dysentery
- Treatment: pyquiton
- Prophylaxis: eliminate water-snail, feces management
Teaching hours distribution
| Contents | Lecture | Practice |
| Introduction | 2 | |
| Viral hepatitis | 3 | |
| Influenza and avian flu | 1 | |
| CNS infection (bacterial meningitis, and tuberculosis meningitis) | 3 | 3 |
| Sepsis | 2 | 3 |
| Diarrhea (introduction of infectious diarrhea, cholera, bacterial dysentery, and amebiasis) | 2 | |
| Viral hemorrhagic fever | 2 | |
| Hospital-acquired infection and fever of unknown origin | 3 | 3 |
| Total | 18 | 9 |
Examination pattern & marks distribution
- Theory examinations twice 80%
- Performance in the class 20%
Sample Exam Questions
References
- Mendell, Douglas, and Bennett’s Principles and Practice of Infectious Disease, 6th Edition, Elsevier Inc., 2005
- Song Shize, Infectious Diseases, Beijing Medical University Press, 2003
