Infection

The unit aims to enable students to make progress towards meeting some of the learning outcomes described in Tomorrow’s Doctors (2018) relevant to the Doctor as Scholar and Scientist and the Doctor as a Professional. The specific aims of this unit are to enable the student to gain a basic knowledge and understanding of infection, infective agents and immunology which provides a platform for developing appropriate related skills in clinical practice. The unit focuses on the basic mechanisms of innate and acquired immunity, and how these translate into immune protection, immunodeficiency, immune damage and autoimmunity will be the immunology targets. It develops a detailed knowledge of a range of infective agents and how their differing properties impinge on epidemiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, treatment and control of infection encompasses the infection targets. The balance between infection and immunology will be 2:1.