Program Overview

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Clinical Global Infectious Diseases

Overview

The Clinical Global Infectious Diseases course is designed to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of infectious diseases, their geographical distribution, and the principles of diagnosis, treatment, and control. The course aims to equip students with the knowledge and skills necessary to work in developing countries, providing background knowledge of disease prevalence, principles of diagnosis, treatment, and a brief introduction to community control and prevention.

Course Details

• ECTS: 5
• Forms of instruction: Lecture
• Form of examination: Attendance
• Language of instruction: English
• Level: Master
• Location: Aarhus

Course Content

The course will cover major infectious diseases like malaria, tuberculosis, HIV, yellow fever, and others, with emphasis on geographical distribution, difference in morbidity and mortality between different parts of the world, clinical signs and symptoms, diagnosis, prevention, and control. Advice to travelers will be discussed, and appropriate investigations in immigrants will be reviewed.

Obtained Knowledge

Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:

• Suggest differential diagnosis, diagnostic procedures, and first-line treatment plans for common infections from different parts of the world, including classical tropical medicine.
• Perform diagnostic procedures for intestinal parasites and blood parasites like malaria and have a working knowledge of rapid diagnostic tests.
• Estimate the risk of infections in individuals traveling to a specific area and immigrants to a new country and provide sensible travel advice or know where such information is obtained.

Other Information

• Type of course: Summer University, Ordinary, Exchange
• Primary programme: Master's Degree Programme in Medicine
• Related programmes: Master's Degree Programme in Dental Surgery, Master's Degree Programme in Public Health Studies, Master's Degree Programme in Sport Sciences
• Department: Department of Clinical Medicine
• Faculty: Health
• Maximum number of participants: 40

Teaching

• Forms of instruction: Lecture and classroom instruction
• Instructor: Christian Wejse Bo Hønge
• Course coordinator: Bo Langhoff Hønge

Comments on the Form of Instruction

Teaching will be through lectures, group work, and practicals in diagnostic parasitology and rapid tests. The groups will be given assignments and papers, either as individual patient cases or public health problems. Solutions will be presented and discussed in plenary sessions, and patient demonstrations will be included whenever appropriate patients are available at the department of infectious diseases.

Literature

• Suggested literature:
  • Petersen E, Chen L, Schlagenhauf P. Infectious Diseases: A Geographic Guide. Wiley 2011.
  • Eddleston M, Davidson R, Brent A, Wilkinson R. Oxford handbook of tropical medicine. Oxford University Press 2008, 3rd Ed.
  • International Travel and Health. WHO, Geneva 2014.

Examination

• Form of examination: Lecture participation
• Form of co-examination: Internal co-examination
• Assessment: Passed/failed
• Permitted exam aids: Not specified

Comments

The evaluation (exam) is based on the presentations by the groups. Each member of the groups must demonstrate that they participated actively throughout each assignment. The practicals will be evaluated by a spot test of blinded samples. Re-exam is not possible due to the very practical content of the course. The next possible exam will be participation in the course the following summer.