TIP409

Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology Internship

Faculty \ Department
School of Medicine \ Medicine
Course Credit
ECTS Credit
Course Type
Instructional Language
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5
Compulsory
Turkish
Prerequisites
(TOBB ETÜ) Tıp Fakültesi Üçüncü sınıfı başarıyla tamamlayarak sınıfı geçmeye hak kazanmış olmak.
Programs that can take the course
Medicine Bachelor's Degree Program
Course Description
This internship teaches etiology, pathogenesis, epidemiology, clinic and diagnosis of infectious diseases that develop in all organ systems.
Textbook and / or References
Enfeksiyon Hastalıkları, 2. Baskı (Ed: Prof. Dr. Halil Kurt, Prof. Dr. Sibel Gündeş, Prof. Dr. Mehmet Faruk Geyik), 2016 Nobel Tıp Kitabevi
GOLDMAN’S CECIL MEDICINE Çevirisi, Enfeksiyon Hastalıkları Bölüm Editörü, Güneş Tıp Kitabevi, 2015 Enfeksiyon Hastalıkları ve Mikrobiyolojisi, 4. Baskı (Ed: Topçu AW, Söyletir G, Doğanay M) kitabı. Nobel Tıp Kitabevi Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett's Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases
Course Objectives
The aim is for students who complete the Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology Internship to gain skills in approaching infectious patients, rational antibiotic use, and to gain knowledge and skills in clinical presentation, diagnosis, differential diagnosis, prevention and treatment of infections commonly seen in the community.
Course Outcomes
1. Ability to manage a patient with fever, and make a differential diagnosis in a patient with fever of unknown origin.
2. Must be knowledgeable about the clinical use of antibiotics and be able to prescribe for community-acquired infections
3. Ability to diagnose, evaluate and treat lower and upper respiratory tract, gastrointestinal, urinary and genital system infections
4. Ability to diagnose, evaluate and treat central nervous system infections.
5. Ability to diagnose rabies and tetanus and initiate rabies prophylaxis after contact with a suspicious animal and tetanus prophylaxis in injuries.
6. Ability to diagnose and treat brucellosis, salmonellosis, malaria and infectious mononucleosis, which are diseases affecting the reticuloendothelial system.
7. Ability to evaluate diseases that cause lymphadenopathy and make a differential diagnosis.
8. Ability to request serological tests in acute and chronic hepatitis, interpret the results, and provide information to the patient about diagnosis and protection from these diseases.
9. Be able to recognize and guide HIV infection, and inform patients about contagiousness
10. Be knowledgeable about the diagnosis, treatment and preventive services of diseases that threaten public health, such as Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever, influenza and Covid-19.
11. Be able to diagnose and treat skin and soft tissue infections
12. Be able to diagnose intestinal parasitic diseases and manage their treatment
13. Be able to inform patients about protection from infectious diseases and vaccines in general
Tentative Course Plan
Week 1:
Differential diagnosis in patients with fever, according to anamnesis and symptoms,
FM and laboratory findings. Differential diagnosis in the presence of fever, hepatomegaly, splenomegaly.
Treatment Principles in Infectious Diseases.
Rational Use of Antibiotics. Global Antibiotic Resistance. Upper Respiratory Tract Infections.
Influenza.
Hospitalization criteria for patients with fever, culture of blood and other body samples, interpretation of results, empirical antibiotic administration.
Sepsis and Septic Shock.
Antimicrobial prescribing practice (Influenza, tonsillitis, sinusitis, otitis).
Antibiotic presentation and sample prescription.
Empirical Antibiotic Treatment.
Sepsis and empirical antibiotic administration in patients in intensive care.
Genito-Urinary System Infections.
Acute Infectious Diarrhea.
Salmonella Infections.
Prescription arrangement in accordance with the principles of rational drug use and treatment (acute infectious diarrhea, typhoid). Antimicrobial Therapy.
Acute Viral Hepatitis. Skin and Soft Tissue Infections.
Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever.
Brucellosis. Antimicrobial Therapy.
Central Nervous System Infections.
Adult Immunization. CLINICAL APPLICATIONS
Week 2: Diagnostic approach to infections in the patient with impaired consciousness (evaluation of meningeal irritation signs, CSF findings).
Antimicrobial prescribing practice (acute purulent meningitis).
HIV Infection/AIDS.
Malaria.
Toxoplasmosis, Leishmaniasis, Kala-Azar. Rabies.
Tetanus. - COVID 19 Case Discussion.
Antimicrobial Therapy. CLINICAL APPLICATIONS. Prescription writing practice Student assessment on case before exam
Anthrax
Tentative Assesment Methods
Activities Number Weight (%)
Course Attendance/Participation - -
Laboratory - -
Application 1 10%
Homework - -
Project - -
Presentation 1 40%
Field Work - -
Internship - -
Course Boards 1 50%
Quiz - -
Midterm Exam - -
Final Exam - -
Total 100%

Tentative ECTS-Workload Table
Activities Number/Weeks Duration (Hours) Workload
Course Hours (first 6 weeks) 2 24 48
Course Hours (last 6 weeks) - - -
Laboratory - - -
Application 2 4 8
Homework - - -
Project - - -
Presentation 1 2 2
Field Work - - -
Internship - - -
Course Boards 1 2 2
Preparation for Quiz - - -
Preparation for Midterm Exam - - -
Final Exam - - -
Preparation for Final Exam - - -
Study Hours Out of Class (preliminary work, reinforcement, etc.) 2 38 76
Total Workload 136
Total Workload / 30 136 / 30
4.533333
ECTS Credits of the Course 5
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