MedInTO Medicine and Surgery

Hematology, Infectious Diseases and Dermatology - Module of Infectious Diseases

Infectious Diseases

Academic year 2024/2025

Sommario del corso

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• Learning assessment methods
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Course objectives

The course will cover the major human infectious diseases starting from basic concepts such as infection/colonization, transmission patterns and hospital-acquired infections. Several syndromes will be described including infective endocarditis, central nervous system infections, skin and soft tissue infections, osteomyelitis, sexually transmitted diseases, urinary tract and abdominal infections, HIV, tropical diseases, tuberculosis and infections by non-tubercular mycobacteria. The epidemiology of resistant bacteria as well as measures of infection control and antimicrobial stewardship will also be presented to the students. Along with traditional lectures the course will include interactive activities such as surveys and management of clinical cases. The objectives of the course include the knowledge of the most common infections and related aetiologies, the ability to apply this knowledge in the diagnostic management of clinical cases and the self-evaluation of the acquired understanding of infectious diseases through differential diagnosis. The oral exam will mostly evaluate the ability in reasoning on epidemiology, infections, diagnosis, complications and differential diagnosis, usually after a clinical presentation applied to single patients.

Results of learning outcomes

Objectives

1. Describing an infectious disease according to:
   • Definition
   • Epidemiology
   • Risk factors and aetiology
   • Clinical Presentation
   • Diagnosis
   • Differential diagnosis
   • Treatment
   • Complications

2. Acquiring the knowledge of the main infectious “syndromes” and discussing them in terms of differential diagnosis and prioritizing diagnostic exams
   • Fever and neutropenia
   • Fever in the traveller from the Tropics
   • Altered consciousness and sepsis
   • Systemic and focal infections (hepatic, renal, splenic, cerebral, etc.)

Program

1. Host-microbes interactions:
2. Contamination, colonization, infection;
3. Factors associated with bacterial virulence;
4. Severity of clinical presentations;
5. Bacteremia and sepsis;
6. Fever and Fever of Unknown Origin;
7. Neutropenia.
8. Infectious endocarditis
9. Skin and soft tissues infections and exanthematic diseases
10. Osteomyelitis, spondilodiscitis and prosthetic infections
11. Diabetic foot infection
12. Toxoplasmosis and mononucleosis-like syndromes, Brucella, Leptospira, Leishmania, Q fever, Rickettsie, haemorrhagic fevers, Lyme Disease
13. Urinary tract infections
14. Intra-abdominal infections
15. Meningitis and meningo-encephalitis, nodular lesions of the central nervous system
16. Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP and HCAP)
17. Tuberculosis
18. Non-tuberculous mycobacteria
19. HIV and AIDS
20. Sexually transmitted infections
21. Nosocomial (including HAP; BSI; CVC-BSI) and immune-compromised host infections (including VAP, candidemia and Invasive Aspergillosis); Antimicrobial stewardship
22. Tropical Diseases: Malaria, Dengue, Zika, Chikungunya, Neglected tropical diseases (tripanosomiasis, yellow fever, typhoid fever, schistosomiasis, Japanese encephalitis), Travellers and infectious diarrheas
23. Coronaviruses and COVID-19
24. Clinical Interactive cases inlcuding neutropenic fever, fever with leukopenia, fever with haemorragic symptoms, the returning traveller, fever of unknown origin in immunecompetent and immunecompromised hosts

Course delivery

The course will be delivered through Live classes and both slides and additional content will be uploaded on Moodle. Interactive cases will be discussed with the students and Socrative will be used for increasing the interaction on diagnostic and therapeutic processes.

Learning assessment methods

Learning will be assessed through an oral examination that will explore both the students' skills in decribing infectious diseases and in applying the acquired knowledge in the management of virtual clinical cases.

Notes

Students with DSA or disabilities are kindly requested to take note of the reception services and support services offered by the University of Turin, and in particular of the procedures required for exam support.

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