Postgraduate Course: Imaging: Imaging in inflammation and infection (NEME11032)
Course Outline
| School | Deanery of Clinical 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 optional course will cover the diagnostic strategies and problems associated with infectious and inflammatory diseases of the brain and body. Key disease processes will be used to illustrate principles and approaches. |
| Course description |
Under development - will be listed explicitly on the Imaging MSc website at http://www.imagingmsc.ed.ac.uk
Proposed Modules will cover but not be limited to:
+ Gastro-intestinal - inflammatory bowel disease
+ Chest - infectious diseases including tuberculosis, abscess, fungi; inflammatory disease including sarcoidosis, Wegener's granulomatosis
+ Musculoskeletal - osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, gout, psoriatic arthropathy, erosive osteoarthritis, scleroderma, haemochromatosis, ankylosing spondylitis
+ Neuro - multiple sclerosis
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
| See course description
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Reading List
| Under development - will be listed for each module in the online environment with links directly to University library holdings. |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Special Arrangements |
All courses to be delivered online by distance learning, using the institutional learning environment and other online tools (e.g. wiki, objective testing software), accessed by using the standard university EASE login. |
| Keywords | Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), Tuberculosis, Abscess, Fungi, Sarcoidosis, Wegener's Granulomatosi |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Prof Andrew Farrall
Tel: (0131) 537 3910
Email: andrew.farrall@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Dr Charilaos Alexakis
Tel: 0131 537 3125
Email: C.Alexakis@ed.ac.uk |
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