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BMS5002 - Infectious Disease Management

Offering Academic Unit
Department of Biomedical Sciences
Credit Units
3
Course Duration
One Semester
Course Offering Term*:
Semester A 2023/24

* The offering term is subject to change without prior notice
 
Course Aims

The course aims to provide students the principles and practice on the diagnosis, control and prevention of infectious diseases. Topics including (1) disease principle, diagnosis and detection; (2) epidemiology principles, outbreak, dynamics, molecular epidemiology; (3) disease management principles (I): nutrition, hospital infection, antibiotic resistance; (4) disease management principles (II): prevention of disease spread, vaccinology; (5) disease management principles (III): therapeutics, emergency responses to emerging diseases; (6) disease management principles (IV): public health policy, biosecurity threats; (7) Topic I: management of diseases with airborne transmission (e.g., COVID-19); (8) Topic II: management of diseases with fecal-oral transmission and body fluid transmission; (9) topic III: management of diseases with vector-borne transmission.  In all topics, special attention will be paid on how communicable diseases and their control affects the public health locally, nationally and internationally.

Assessment (Indicative only, please check the detailed course information)

Continuous Assessment: 65%
Examination: 35%
Examination Duration: 2 hours
 
Detailed Course Information

BMS5002.pdf

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