จากคู่มือสำหรับนิสิตแพทย์ 2006-2009
รายละเอียด วิชาจุลชีววิทยาทางการแพทย์ จัดอยู่ในกลุ่มพยาธิวิทยาคลินิก

ในหลักสูตรแพทย์ศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยเคมบริดจ์
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Aims

  • Appreciate the transmission of microorganisms between the environment and living hosts, and how this transmission may be reduced or prevented and how host defence mechanisms may be altered.
  • Understand the principles of how common bacteria, viruses, fungi, protozoa and parasites cause disease, and how these infections most commonly present.
  • Know the common infectious causes of dysfunction of each of the body’s organ systems.
  • Understand the principles of how best to use microbiological tests to make a diagnosis of infectious disease in patients in and out of hospital.
  • Be able to use common antimicrobial agents and other antimicrobial strategies effectively and efficiently.


The course does NOT aim to get you to memorise factual information which you do not understand, or which you could easily look up in a book if you ever needed to know it.

Lectures

  • Cover many, but not all.
  • Not intended to give comprehensive coverage of each system, but will be used to direct students towards the core knowledge. 
  • You will need to supplement lectures by reading the relevant sections of recommended textbooks. 
  • Handouts are generally given when standard textbooks are considered inadequate and should not be regarded as substitutes for textbooks. 
  • Some of the lecture handouts and slides are available on the Web.

 

Tutorials

  • cover selected major topics from the core curriculum in a way designed to stimulate a problem-solving approach sometimes using data interpretation questions and this approach is intended to foster integration of pathological and clinical features of diseases.
  • You will be allocated to tutorial groups for various parts of the course. 
  • Tutorials will take place at various times set out in the timetable.
  • are designed to provide you with an opportunity for integration of pathological and clinical knowledge.
  • Tutorials include: clinico-pathological cases, case problem-solving exercises (CPSE), data interpretation questions (DIQ), structured discussions of key pathological topics with your tutor and fellow students.
  • Both clinico-pathological cases and case problem-solving exercises (CPSEs) will be used to illustrate important pathological processes and their clinical manifestations. 
  • You must be prepared to actively participate in discussing and providing answers for these cases and exercises in the tutorials. Each tutorial group is presented with the same cases and problems which form the basis of the group discussions during the tutorial. 
  • A list of titles for these sessions is given below. Whenever possible they will take place after the relevant lectures. 
  • You will gain maximum benefit from these sessions by conscientious preparation beforehand, by reading the relevant lecture notes, handouts, and textbook chapters. Active participation is essential for the success of these sessions!

 

Computer-based learning (CBL)

  • CBL resources, which include Computer Aided Learning (CAL) programs and Internet sites (URLs provided).
  • These teaching packages are available for use in the Clinical School Computer Teaching Laboratory at other times during the working day
  • This environment is structured to guide students to appropriate resources available on computer.

 

Interactive large-group teaching

  • used in Microbiology
  • the session leader selects individual students to interpret data to make diagnostic and therapeutic decisions,usually in a case-based teaching format. These may include use of ‘branching’ decision-based approaches.

 

RECOMMENDED READING

MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY:

  1. For a mainly organism-based approach, summarising essential facts about microorganisms: “Lecture Notes on Medical Microbiology” 3rd Ed. Elliot & Desselberger; Blackwell Science, 1997 (Price £14.95).
  2. For a comprehensive, laboratory-based summary of bacteriology: "Notes on Medical Bacteriology" 5th ed. Sleigh & Timbury; Churchill Livingstone, 1998 (Price £18.95)
  3. For good diagrams, and an immunological approach: “Medical Microbiology” Mims, Playfair, Roitt, Wakelin & Williams; Mosby, 1998 (Price £32.95).
  4. For a bare-bones summary of virology: “Notes on Medical Virology” 11th ed. Timbury; Churchill Livingstone, 1997 (Price £13.95).
  5. For a mixed organism-syndrome based approach, focussing on clinical management of patient specimens: “The Infectious Diseases Manual” Wilks, Farrington & Rubenstein; Blackwell Science, 2 edition, 2003 (Price £35).

 

For reference works, with the last word on:

  1. Virology: “Fields’ Virology” 4th Ed. Fields, Knipe & Howley; Lippincott-Raven, 2001 (Price £265.00).
  2. Antibiotics: “Antibiotic and Chemotherapy” 7 Ed. Lambert, O’Grady, Finch & Greenwood; Churchill Livingstone, 1997 (Price £115.00).
  3. All aspects: “Medical Microbiology” 16 Ed. Greenwood, Slack and Pentherer: Churchill Livingstone, 2002.

 

Reference

University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine Clinical Pathology Course Handbook for Students 2006-2009