| Course title | Infectious Diseases |
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| Course code | INF/VA041 |
| Organizational form of instruction | Exercise + Seminar |
| Level of course | Master |
| Year of study | 4 |
| Semester | Winter and summer |
| Number of ECTS credits | 4 |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Status of course | Compulsory |
| Form of instruction | Face-to-face |
| Work placements | This is not an internship |
| Recommended optional programme components | None |
| Lecturer(s) |
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| Course content |
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Introduction of the problem of infectious diseases and relations to the other medical specializations, transmission of infectious diseases, epidemiologic links, clinical manifestation of infectious diseases, diferencial diagnosis and therapy. Viral hepatitis A, B, C, D, E, etiology, pathogenesis, epidemiology, clinical features, serologic and PCR tests and laboratory findings, treatment, sequelae, chronic viral hepatitis B.C,E - treatment of them via virostatic drugs. GIT infections (pathogenesis of the infectious diarrhoea, bacterial and viral infectious diarrhoea, clinically important bacterial and viral carrier state). HIV/AIDS infection (stages, therapy, care of HIV/AIDS patiens), respiratory infections, herpetic infections, infectious exanthematous diseases, infectious diseases caused by Streptococci and Staphylococci, zoonose, infectious diseases in childhood. Basic informations about neuroinfections - bacterial and viral, lyme diseases, TBE encephalitis, meningococcal meningitis. Prion infections. Antibiotics from the view of infectionist, antibiotic resistence, antibiotic policy. Antivirotics. Antimycotics. Strategy of vaccination - contemporary status, view to the future. Infectious diseases and pregnancy. The infectious disease and the corticosteroid therapy. Anaerobic infections, tetanus. Clostridial infections. Fungal infection. The introduction to the problem of the geographic and travel medicine. Malaria, leishmaniosis, schistosomiasis. Clinical demonstration of the patients ? casuistry.
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| Learning activities and teaching methods |
| Lecture, Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Observation, Training in job and motor Skils |
| Learning outcomes |
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The students are acquainted with common manifestations of infectious diseases, development of an infectious diseases including sepsis and septic shock. They expand their knowledge of common but also rarer bacterial, parasitic and viral infections. The students will acquire basic knowledge of diagnosis, differential diagnosis and possible treatment of common but also significant imported infectious diseases. They will become familiar with vaccination against some infectious diseases and other possibilities of prevention. They will acquire knowledge of the running of an infectious ward, its hygienic epidemiological routine and standards of patient´s isolation.
The student will be able to diagnose the most frequent infectious diseases including differential diagnostics and therapeutic possibilities, especially within the first contact with the patients suffering from infectious diaseases. |
| Prerequisites |
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Completion of course "Internal medicine 1".
CH0/VAB11 ----- or ----- CH0/VAB31 and IN0/VAA11 ----- or ----- IN0/VAA21 and CJA/VAB32 ----- or ----- CJA/VAB43 and PAT/VAA32 ----- or ----- PAT/VAB11 and PFY/VAA31 ----- or ----- PFY/VAB11 and PSY/VAB13 ----- or ----- PSY/VAB23 and FAR/VAA32 ----- or ----- FAR/VAB11 and IN2/VAA32 ----- or ----- IN2/VAB22 and FAR/VAB32 and IN2/VAB22 ----- or ----- IN2/VAB32 |
| Assessment methods and criteria |
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Mark, Oral exam, Student performance, Dialog
To attend lectures and seminars. Credit is for active attendance at seminars and exercises. To study independently the recommended literature, any English textbook of Infectious Diseases. Oral examination. |
| Recommended literature |
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| Study plans that include the course |
| Faculty | Study plan (Version) | Category of Branch/Specialization | Recommended semester | |
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| Faculty: Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry | Study plan (Version): General Medicine (2025) | Category: Medical sciences | 4 | Recommended year of study:4, Recommended semester: - |