BMS5002 - Infectious Disease Management | ||||||||
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| * 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: 3 hours | ||||||||
Detailed Course Information | ||||||||
| BMS5002.pdf | ||||||||
Useful Links | ||||||||
| Department of Biomedical Sciences | ||||||||
