medportal CDB | Taxonomy | Curriculum Block / Host Defense and Neoplasia

Taxonomies

Curriculum Block

Host Defense and Neoplasia

Only show most relevant

Child Tags

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

Week 4

Activities

Microbiology
e-Learning Module

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Host Defense and Neoplasia

Ethel MacConkey IF Host Defence and Neoplasia
Tutorial

Integration Foundation / Host Defense and Neoplasia / Week 1

Breast Anatomy and Lymphatic System
Anatomy Lectures

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Host Defense and Neoplasia / Week 1

Measures of Health
Watching a Video

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Host Defense and Neoplasia / Week 1

Outbreak Management
Active Large Group Session

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Host Defense and Neoplasia / Week 1

Antibiotic Prescribing
Active Large Group Session

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Host Defense and Neoplasia / Week 1

Surveillance: Data for Action
Watching a Video

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Host Defense and Neoplasia / Week 1

Communicable Diseases Part 1: Identification and Reporting
Watching a Video

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Host Defense and Neoplasia / Week 1

Communicable Diseases Part 2: Outbreak Management
Watching a Video

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Host Defense and Neoplasia / Week 1

Yaser Kallas IF Host Defence and Neoplasia
Tutorial

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Host Defense and Neoplasia / Week 1

Melissa Wang IF Host Defence and Neoplasia
Tutorial

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Host Defense and Neoplasia / Week 1

Knee Pain in the ER
Clinical Skills Sessions

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Host Defense and Neoplasia / Week 1

P.J. Peters (Part 1) IF Host Defence and Neoplasia
Tutorial

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Host Defense and Neoplasia / Week 2

P.J. Peters (Part 2) IF Host Defence and Neoplasia
Tutorial

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Host Defense and Neoplasia / Week 2

Headache
Clinical Skills Sessions

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Host Defense and Neoplasia / Week 2

Godlewski Family IF Host Defence and Neoplasia
Tutorial

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Host Defense and Neoplasia / Week 3

Grace Tran IF Host Defence and Neoplasia
Tutorial

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Host Defense and Neoplasia / Week 3

Philippe LaCologne IF Host Defence and Neoplasia
Tutorial

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Host Defense and Neoplasia / Week 3

Melena Stool
Clinical Skills Sessions

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Host Defense and Neoplasia / Week 3

Albert Johnson IF Host Defence and Neoplasia
Tutorial

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Host Defense and Neoplasia / Week 4

Occupational Medicine
Active Large Group Session

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Host Defense and Neoplasia / Week 4

End-of-Life Care
Active Large Group Session

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Host Defense and Neoplasia / Week 4

Palliative Care
Clinical Skills Sessions

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Host Defense and Neoplasia / Week 4

New Lymphadenopathy and STBBI assessment
Clinical Skills Sessions

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Host Defense and Neoplasia / Week 4

Assessments

IF CAE 1
Concept Application Exercise (CAE)

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Host Defense and Neoplasia / Week 4

Objectives

By the end of Host Defenses, students will be expected to understand how the immune system moderates the relationship between host and pathogen, and how theses complex relationships are modified by public health and infection control.
General Objectives

Host Defense and Neoplasia

Describe normal skin, vaginal and colonic flora, and understand the Gram-stain features and culture plate features of these organisms.
General Objectives

Host Defense and Neoplasia

Understand why coagulase-negative staphylococci rarely cause human disease, but commonly cause disease in the presence of prosthetic devices.
General Objectives

Host Defense and Neoplasia

Understand what a fungus is, and how yeasts differ from molds.
General Objectives

Host Defense and Neoplasia

Understand the structure and replication of viruses.
General Objectives

Host Defense and Neoplasia

Appreciate the common microbial causes of gastroenteritis.
General Objectives

Host Defense and Neoplasia

Understand the microbiology of the common organisms causing community-acquired meningitis.
General Objectives

Host Defense and Neoplasia

Understand the role of skin integrity in preventing infections.
General Objectives

Host Defense and Neoplasia

Understand viral immunity
General Objectives

Host Defense and Neoplasia

Understand the role of the innate immune system in preventing and combating infectious diseases.
General Objectives

Host Defense and Neoplasia

Understand the interaction between the immune system and ingested pathogens.
General Objectives

Host Defense and Neoplasia

Understand the arms of the immune system that prevent mucosal candidiasis.
General Objectives

Host Defense and Neoplasia

Consider the possibility of congenital immunodeficiency.
General Objectives

Host Defense and Neoplasia

Understand the mechanism of antibiotic drug reactions.
General Objectives

Host Defense and Neoplasia

Understand the role of complement and the spleen in host defense.
General Objectives

Host Defense and Neoplasia

Understand the effect of pregnancy on the immune system.
General Objectives

Host Defense and Neoplasia

Describe the various kinds of vaccines and understand how vaccines induce immunologic memory to prevent disease.
General Objectives

Host Defense and Neoplasia

Know the vaccination schedule and tables.
General Objectives

Host Defense and Neoplasia

Determine the quantitative risk & benefit of a treatment such as vaccination.
General Objectives

Host Defense and Neoplasia

Understand the epidemiology of body temperature and the physiology of the febrile response.
General Objectives

Host Defense and Neoplasia

Understand how cold & sore throat viruses are transmitted.
General Objectives

Host Defense and Neoplasia

Develop an approach to patients with sore throat.
General Objectives

Host Defense and Neoplasia

Understand the pathogenesis of gastroenteritis.
General Objectives

Host Defense and Neoplasia

Understand the pathogenesis of community-acquired meningitis.
General Objectives

Host Defense and Neoplasia

Understand the principles of meningitis treatment.
General Objectives

Host Defense and Neoplasia

Understand the concept of vertical transmission and which infections are transmitted in this way.
General Objectives

Host Defense and Neoplasia

Review common sexually transmitted infections and the spectrum of disease that they cause.
General Objectives

Host Defense and Neoplasia

To understand the principles behind selecting antibiotics for use in pregnancy.
General Objectives

Host Defense and Neoplasia

Understand the pathogenesis of surgical site infections.
General Objectives

Host Defense and Neoplasia

Appreciate the importance of infection control in preventing the acquisition and spread of nosocomial infections.
General Objectives

Host Defense and Neoplasia

Appreciate the role of infection control and public health in preventing communicable gastroenteritis.
General Objectives

Host Defense and Neoplasia

Understand the role social conditions play in the acquisition and spread of infectious diseases.
General Objectives

Host Defense and Neoplasia

Understand the roles of infection control and public health in the management of meningitis.
General Objectives

Host Defense and Neoplasia

To consider the role of public health in sexual health and sexually transmitted infections.
General Objectives

Host Defense and Neoplasia

Explain modifiable and non-modifiable causes of cancer.
General Objectives

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Host Defense and Neoplasia

Explain how cancer risk is influenced by genetic factors.
General Objectives

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Host Defense and Neoplasia

Explain the basis of cancer diagnosis and prognosis.
General Objectives

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Host Defense and Neoplasia

Describe the principles of cancer screening?
General Objectives

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Host Defense and Neoplasia

Describe the role of surgery, radiation and systemic therapy in the management of cancer.
General Objectives

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Host Defense and Neoplasia

Describe the consequences of disseminated cancer.
General Objectives

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Host Defense and Neoplasia

Describe common oncologic emergencies.
General Objectives

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Host Defense and Neoplasia

Describe the principles of pain and symptom management in cancer.
General Objectives

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Host Defense and Neoplasia

Upon completion of this problem, students will be able to explain how skin forms an integral component of the immune system and the consequences of breaches in this barrier. They will be able to describe the composition of normal host flora, the classification of bacteria and explain how these bacteria can lead to infections, such as those at surgical sites, especially when facilitated by the presence of prosthetic material.
Global Objectives

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Host Defense and Neoplasia

Upon completion of this case, students will be able to illustrate that candida is a type of fungus, classified as a yeast, that is part of normal flora, but which may cause mucosal disease if normal flora is altered, or if there are defects in cell-mediated immunity.
Global Objectives

Host Defense and Neoplasia

Upon completion of this case, students should recognize that pharyngitis is a common community-acquired viral infection usually caused by viruses and passed among close contacts either by direct contact or via droplet transmission. They should identify how viruses cause infections in the human host and the immune response to such invasion.
Global Objectives

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Host Defense and Neoplasia

Upon completion of this case, students will describe how gastroenteritis can be caused by a spectrum of pathogens and that although it is a largely preventable infection, transmitted via the fecal-oral route, it is a common cause of public outbreaks.
Global Objectives

Host Defense and Neoplasia

Upon completion of this case, students will understand that community-acquired meningitis usually results from bacteria invading and bypassing the blood-brain barrier of a susceptible host, and appreciate deficiencies of the immune system that might predispose to infections by these pathogens.
Global Objectives

Host Defense and Neoplasia

Upon completion of this case, students will be able to describe how vaccines stimulate the host's immune system in a particular manner to prevent acquiring a disease, as well as assess the contribution of existing and novel vaccines to health care.
Global Objectives

Host Defense and Neoplasia

Upon completion of this problem, students should be able to describe cancer-directed and non-cancer-directed treatments in the management of metastatic cancer. Students should be able to explain the need for urgent treatment in some instances of incurable cancer.
Global Objectives

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Host Defense and Neoplasia

Upon completion of this problem, the student should be able to describe how tobacco and radiation exposure can result in carcinogenesis. Students should be able to describe the value of identifying occupational exposures to carcinogens at the individual, workplace, and community levels.
Global Objectives

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Host Defense and Neoplasia

Describe the role of infection control in preventing the acquisition and spread of infectious diseases.
General Objectives

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Host Defense and Neoplasia

The role of public health in keeping the public safe.
General Objectives

Host Defense and Neoplasia

Explain the overall structure of the immune system.
General Objectives

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Host Defense and Neoplasia

Students should be able to describe the basic elements of an autoimmune disease and an allergic drug reaction.
General Objectives

Host Defense and Neoplasia

Describe the molecular mechanisms at play in vaccines, the diseases vaccines are used to prevent, and the rationale for the recommended immunization schedules.
General Objectives

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Host Defense and Neoplasia

Structure of the immune system: Innate verses acquired and non-specific verses specific.
General Objectives

Host Defense and Neoplasia

Specific arms of the immune system: normal flora, mechanical and chemical defenses, phagocytes, complement, immunoglobulins, cell-mediated immunity and spleen.
General Objectives

Host Defense and Neoplasia

Pathophysiology of autoimmune disease
General Objectives

Host Defense and Neoplasia

Approach to the diagnosis of allergic drug reactions
General Objectives

Host Defense and Neoplasia

Physiology of vaccinations
General Objectives

Host Defense and Neoplasia

Students should know the differences between the various pathogens (e.g. bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites).
General Objectives

Host Defense and Neoplasia

Describe the normal flora at the most important non-sterile sites in the body.
General Objectives

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Host Defense and Neoplasia

Describe the differences between and classify various types of pathogens (e.g. bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites).
General Objectives

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Host Defense and Neoplasia

Upon completion of this problem, the student should be able to define the terms “primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention” as they relate to cancer. Students should be able to describe the characteristics of an effective population screening program and the mechanisms by which screening can reduce the burden of cancer.
Global Objectives

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Host Defense and Neoplasia

Upon completion of this problem, students should be able to describe the pathogenesis and progression of HIV infection and the role the virus plays in causing long-term immunosuppression. Students will be able to describe how long-term immunosuppression can result in opportunistic infections.
Global Objectives

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Host Defense and Neoplasia

Upon completion of this problem, students should be able to describe how long-term immunosuppression can result in opportunistic infection and increase the risk of developing malignancy.
Global Objectives

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Host Defense and Neoplasia

Describe how occupation plays an important role in the health of patients.
Activity Objectives

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Host Defense and Neoplasia

Recognize some of the most common occupational issues affecting people in our society.
Activity Objectives

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Host Defense and Neoplasia

Explain that occupational factors affect a wide breadth of systems, including respiratory (fibrotic lung disease, asthma, cancer), musculoskeletal, neurological (neuropathy, hearing loss), and psychiatric (stress).
Activity Objectives

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Host Defense and Neoplasia

Identify your patients as workers.
Activity Objectives

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Host Defense and Neoplasia

Upon completion of this problem, students should be able to discuss the role of adjuvant chemotherapy and surveillance in at risk patients after surgery. Students will describe the metastatic cascade and explain why some cancers metastasize preferentially to certain sites.
Global Objectives

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Host Defense and Neoplasia

At the completion of this problem, students should be able to define sepsis and describe the pathophysiology of septic shock. They should be able to identify the diagnostic work up and management of someone with sepsis and articulate the process of antimicrobial selection in such cases.
Global Objectives

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Host Defense and Neoplasia

Understand the pathogenesis of how prostheses become infected
General Objectives

Host Defense and Neoplasia

Understand how alterations in normal microbial flora can lead to infections.
General Objectives

Host Defense and Neoplasia

Understand that gastroenteritis can be caused by a spectrum of pathogens.
General Objectives

Host Defense and Neoplasia

Develop a differential diagnosis of common causes of travel-related fever.
General Objectives

Host Defense and Neoplasia

Understand how infections can lead to septic shock.
General Objectives

Host Defense and Neoplasia

Become familiar with the principles of choosing appropriate antimicrobial therapy.
General Objectives

Host Defense and Neoplasia

Understand the importance of antimicrobial stewardship in preventing the spread of antibiotic resistant organisms.
General Objectives

Host Defense and Neoplasia

Upon completion of this problem, students will be able to integrate the various branches of the immune system and be able to identify when to initiate an immunodeficiency work-up.
Global Objectives

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Host Defense and Neoplasia

Describe the infections that patients with common forms of immunodeficiency are at risk of acquiring.
General Objectives

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Host Defense and Neoplasia

Describe epidemiology principles that underlie public health interventions in pandemic planning.
General Objectives

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Host Defense and Neoplasia

Explain the pathophysiology of COVID 19.
Activity Objectives

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Host Defense and Neoplasia

Describe COVID 19 diagnosis, treatment and prevention strategies.
Activity Objectives

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Host Defense and Neoplasia

Define an outbreak.
Activity Objectives

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Host Defense and Neoplasia

Explain the characteristics of an outbreak and how to recognize one when it occurs.
Activity Objectives

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Host Defense and Neoplasia

Describe the main steps in outbreak prevention.
Activity Objectives

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Host Defense and Neoplasia

Describe effective outbreak management.
Activity Objectives

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Host Defense and Neoplasia

Describe skills involved in controlling an outbreak and its impact on the public, in collaboration with public health authorities.
Activity Objectives

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Host Defense and Neoplasia

Recognize important factors in choosing between various antibiotics.
Activity Objectives

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Host Defense and Neoplasia

Describe basic mechanisms of action for antimicrobials.
Activity Objectives

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Host Defense and Neoplasia

Define and describe commonly used terminology and principles of antimicrobial use.
Activity Objectives

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Host Defense and Neoplasia

Identify some common antibiotic classes and describe their spectrum of antimicrobial activity.
Activity Objectives

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Host Defense and Neoplasia

Apply principles of antibiotic stewardship using case examples.
Activity Objectives

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Host Defense and Neoplasia

Address end-of-life decision making and planning, including advance care planning and goals of care discussions.
Activity Objectives

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Host Defense and Neoplasia

Identify appropriate care for dying patients and their families.
Activity Objectives

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Host Defense and Neoplasia

Identify psychosocial and spiritual needs of the dying patient and family, including grief and bereavement.
Activity Objectives

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Host Defense and Neoplasia

Tag Info

Taxonomy

Curriculum Block

Tag Parent

Integration Foundation

Use Count

243

Tag Search

Search the database for any taxonomy tag.