Postgraduate Course: Immunology and Immunopathology in Infection (BIME11118)
Course Outline
School | Deanery of Biomedical Sciences |
College | College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine |
Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Course type | Online Distance Learning |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
Summary | This course aims to provide an extended understanding of immunology and immunopathology, regulatory processes, and immune factor mechanisms in infection |
Course description |
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Additional Costs | Printing own course materials |
Course Delivery Information
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Academic year 2016/17, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: None |
Course Start |
Flexible |
Timetable |
Timetable |
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
100
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Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
98 )
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Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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Additional Information (Assessment) |
Formal summative written assessment will constitute 60% of the student's grade. Online assessment will incorporate a variety of activities will constitute 40% of their overall course grade and is taken to represent a formative assessment of learning throughout the programme.
Assessment will be based on various online activities including written submissions (web forms), discussion fora and reflective review. Extensive use of selective release (requiring the student to complete one task before being permitted to proceed to the next) technologies will be made to facilitate interactive and dynamic online assignments.
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Ability to discuss with contrasting examples various types of infection-related immune led diseases including viral, bacterial, and parasitic infections.
- Demonstrate knowledge of the mechanisms of disease development via innate and acquired immunity in relation to infection.
- Compare and contrast the underlying causes of primary and secondary immune deficiency which contribute to infection led diseases.
- Develop research ideas in the field which are informed by evidence from basic science and clinical studies.
- Demonstrate understanding of therapy and management of acute and chronic infection related immune led diseases.
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Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills |
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Keywords | Innate and adaptive immune system,immunopathology |
Contacts
Course organiser | Dr Till Bachmann
Tel: 0131 242 9438
Email: till.bachmann@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Sarah Fraser
Tel: (0131 6)50 3289
Email: s.fraser@ed.ac.uk |
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