This course is integrated with MED265 General Microbiology course, both in teaching and in exams. Please refer to MED265 course for further details.
This course provides medical students with vital microbiology information that will enable them to carry out their duties in an informed, safe, and efficient manner, and protect themselves and their patients from infectious diseases. It is appropriate as an introductory microbiology course, as it contains all of the concepts and topics needed by those students to use as a base for the microbiology of the modular systems that are going to be studied after.
This course will cover a typical undergraduate microbiology topics of special importance to students of the healthcare professions include those dealing with disinfection and sterilization, antibiotics and other antimicrobial agents, epidemiology and public health, healthcare-associated infections and infection control, how infectious diseases are diagnosed , how microbes cause disease, how our bodies protect us from pathogens and infectious diseases , and the major viral, bacterial, fungal, and parasitic diseases of humans.