Postgraduate Course: Anti-Infective Therapy and Resistance (BIME11117)
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 the basic understanding of antimicrobial agents and their use in clinical settings, how to use antimicrobial agents rationally based on evidence and existing policies, how to use antimicrobial agents safely and competently, and the understanding of the evidence that underpins policy development and stewardship. |
Course description |
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Additional Costs | Printing own course materials |
Course Delivery Information
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Academic year 2024/25, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: None |
Course Start |
Flexible |
Course Start Date |
19/05/2025 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
100
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Lecture Hours 10,
Seminar/Tutorial Hours 10,
Online Activities 25,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
53 )
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Additional Information (Learning and Teaching) |
Online activities include asynchronous discussion
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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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No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Demonstrate understanding of the different types and mode of action of antimicrobial agents, and the molecular mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance.
- Explain the theory of antimicrobial stewardship, and the application and practice of antimicrobial stewardship in clinical cases.
- Understand the role and importance of empirical and molecular epidemiology in the development of strategies and policies in the area of anti-infective therapy both nationally and globally.
- Understand the use of antimicrobial agents in clinical management.
- Explain and discuss the far reaching implications of antibiotic resistance and multidrug resistant organisms e.g. clinical, economic, and societal).
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Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills |
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Keywords | Antibiotic agents,therapy and management,antibiotic resistance |
Contacts
Course organiser | Dr Maria Sanchez Perez
Tel:
Email: Maria.Sanchez@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Ann-Marie Peckham
Tel: (0131 6)50 3160
Email: apeckham@ed.ac.uk |
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