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Emerging Infections (U01025)

? Credit Points : 10 ? SCQF Level : 10 ? Acronym : MED-4-MI22

Background: 'New' infections emerge, and others are increasing in incidence. This Elective Course provides an opportunity to examine how and why this occurs and to study selected emerging/re-emerging infections in depth.

Organisation: The Elective Course relies heavily on self-directed learning although 3 overview lectures will be given at the beginning of the course. After an initial briefing session, students will study key emerging/re-emerging infectious agents (eg, HIV, ebola, anthrax, lassa fever, hanta viruses, MRSA) under the guidance of facilitators who will meet with them regularly. Each student will study a particular organism in depth (organism biology, pathogenesis, epidemiology, pathology and clinical aspects) and present an overview (using powerpoint) to the group as well as supplying fellow-students with an A4 synoptic sheet on the organism.

Assessment: For each student, the overview presentation will form 20% and the A4 synoptic sheet 10% of the final mark (hard copies will be made available to examiners alongside general assessment of student performance during presentation and discussion that follows). A review essay/exam based on the in-course material forms 70% of the final mark. The essay/exam will be set at the end of the course (under exam conditions) and will be double-marked.