ECTS credits ECTS credits: 4.5
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 74.2 Hours of tutorials: 2.25 Expository Class: 18 Interactive Classroom: 18 Total: 112.45
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Microbiology and Parasitology
Areas: Microbiology
Center Faculty of Biology
Call: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable
Clinical Microbiology includes content minimum training, skills acquisition and skills that the student's Degree in Biology should know about infectious diseases. Aspects related to the bacterial mechanisms of pathogenicity and virulence, the student starts in the microbiological analysis of clinical samples and a brief description of the etiology, pathogenesis, symptoms and epidemiology of major human infectious diseases. These files will enable the student to address the area of career-related health knowledge and learning the role of microorganisms as infectious agents and techniques used in the microbiological diagnosis of infectious disease.
1.-Program lectures (and estimated duration)
Item 1. Interaction microorganisms human host (2h)
Item 2. Principes of infectious disease epidemiology (1h)
Item 3. Infectious diseases of skin, soft tissues and eyes (2.5h)
Item 4. Infectious diseases of the respiratory system (2.5h)
Item 5. Infectious diseases of the gastrointestinal system (2h)
Item 6. Infectious diseases of the genitourinary system (1.5h)
Item 7. Infectious diseases of the cardiovascular system (1h)
Item 8. Infectious diseases of the nervous system (1.5h)
Item 9. Zoonoses (2h)
Item 10. Nosocomial infections (1h)
Item 11. Early microbiological diagnosis (2h)
Item 12. Microbiological study of urine (1h)
Item 13. Microbiological study of feces (1h)
Item 14. Microbiological study of throat swab, conjunctival and otic (1,5h)
Item 15. Microbiological study of sputum (1h)
Item 16. Microbiological study of urethral and vaginal samples (1h)
Item 17. Microbiological study of cerebrospinal fluid and blood (1h)
Item 18. Microbiological study of anaerobic samples (0,5h)
2.-Laboratory (and estimated duration)
-The Clinical Microbiology Laboratory: safety standards. Study of normal microbiota of skin and throat. Microbiological analysis of urine: urine culture (3h).
-Gram staining of the skin samples, throat and urine. Catheter-associated infections: Proof of Maki. Simulation of contact transmission of pathogens (3h).
-Identification tests on isolated. Antibiogram by diffusion in solid medium (3 h).
-Analysis and interpretation of results. Separate collection, sterilization and material recycling. Completing the assessment test (3h).
3.-Interactive Seminar Classes (2h):
Shall be complementary to achieve the educational objectives and be directed towards expanding topics or concepts taught in the lectures, analysis of practical cases and discussion of popular articles or breaking news related to the matter or to the interpretation of microbiology through various audiovisual tools (cinema, TV, newspapers ...).
4.-Tutorials
Students who request it will receive 1h of tutoring to solve doubts of any aspect of the subject.
Basic
• Spiecer, W.J., 2009. Microbiología clínica y enfermedades infecciosas: texto y atlas en color. 2ª ed. Barcelona: Elsevier.
• Struthers, K. 2018. Microbiología Clínica. Ed. Manual Moderno.
Complementary
-Bauman, RW. 2015. Microbiology with Diseases by Body System. 4th Ed. Pearson Education Limited.
-Gamazo, C., López-Goñi, I. y Díaz, R. dirs., 2005. Manual práctico de microbiología. 3ª ed. Barcelona: Masson.
-Muñoz, A., Santos, Y. y Seoane, R. 2016. INFECT-ARTE: Aprende las enfermedades infecciosas a través del Arte. [libro electrónico] Santiago de Compostela: Servizo de Publicacións da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. http://www.usc.es/libros/index.php/spic/catalog/book/961>
-Prats, G., 2012. Microbiología y Parasitología médicas. Madrid: Editorial Médica Panamericana.
-Tortora, GJ., Funke, BR. Y Case, CL. 2017. Introducción a la Microbiología. 12ª Ed. Medica Panamericana.
-http://www.seimc.org/documentos/protocolos/clinicos
In this regard, the student acquire and practise all the basic/general competences desirable of any university degree, as well as all the specific stuff and some cross.
General skills
-CG5. Study and learn independently, to organize time and resources, new knowledge and skills in this area.
Specific Skills
- CE1c. Biological Basic Techniques.
- CE3f. Microscopical Techniques.
- CE7a. Biological basis of diseases.
Cross-disciplinary skills
- CT11: Develop ability to apply knowledge in practice.
A)Lectures
Teacher master lessons with different computer support. Attendance will not be monitored. In the Virtual Classroom there will be complementary material of the subject available to the student.
B)Interactive Seminar Classes
These activities are voluntary and will be directed by the teacher using as a basis various audiovisual media (images, videos) or resolution of case studies, which will serve to illustrate the topics to be developed. The student must actively participate in trying to resolve the issues/case studies that arise.
C) Laboratory practical classes
They are mandatory to overcome the matter. Classes that take place in the practice lab are included here. In them the student acquires the skills of a laboratory and consolidates the knowledge acquired in the theory classes. The student's personal work in this activity requires a good individual attitude. For these practices, the student will have a laboratory manual, which will include general considerations on the work, as well as a script of each of the practices to be carried out, which will consist of a brief presentation of the fundamentals and methodology to follow. The student must attend each internship session having carefully read the contents of the manual. After the teacher's explanation, the student will make individually, or in small groups, the experiences and observations necessary to achieve the objectives of the practice, for which he/she will have the supervision of the teacher.
Duration: 12h. On the last day, after assessing the final results, the student will present carefully and carefully the practice book in which he will have collected all the results obtained and an evaluation questionnaire will be conducted.
D) Tutorials
Students will receive, upon request, 1h of tutoring intended to clarify doubts about any theoretical-practical or evaluation aspects of the subject.
Continuous evaluation is established throughout the course and a specific final test complementary to the ongoing evaluation. Under these conditions, the student's final grade results from valuating the following sections:
-Final test of mandatory character: 40%.
-Questionnaires synchronic (6) of continuous evaluation (thematic blocks) of a mandatory nature: 30%.
-Practical classes of mandatory character: 15%. Practice book (maximum of 0.5 points) and a questionnaire (maximum 1 point).
-Voluntary Interactive Classes: 15%. Each interactive will be valued with a maximum score of 0.75.
These same instruments will allow to assess the skills acquired as follows:
-In the review: Cg5
-In the laboratory: CE1c, CE3f, CE7a, CT11
-In the classroom: CT11
All activities will be evaluated in the classroom/laboratory, with the exception of the continuous evaluation questionnaires that will be carried out and delivered through the Moodle platform of the Virtual Campus. For cases of fraudulent conduct of exercises or tests, what is included in the Student Academic Performance Assessment and Grade Review Regulations shall apply. The distribution of any teaching material available in the virtual classroom without the express consent of the teaching staff is also strictly prohibited.
To pass the course must pass the final test, ie adequately resolve 50% of the questions, considering that for every two poorly answered questions cancels a correct answer, once achieved the minimum score will be joined by scores on interactive applications and practices carried out, placing the matter approved in the value 5. At the second opportunity, the same evaluation criteria will be used.
Repeat students have the right to repeat all activities but, if they wish, they can retain the grades they obtained in the Practical and Interactive Classes within the two courses prior to the current one and, in that case, are required to take the continuous assessment questionnaires and the final test.
Individual or self-study group: 65.5h
Testing in the framework of continuous evaluation: 4h
Total hours of personal work 69.5h
Students are advised to begin to study the matter from day one. It is important to become familiar with the vocabulary of the subject as soon as possible, which provide, among other materials, a glossary of terms in the Virtual Classroom.
As a subject of little credit, the information given in the lectures so condensed, so it is recommended weekly study for a better use of the subject. It is also advised frequent consultation of the books recommended in the literature and access to learning materials avaliable in the Virtual Classroom.
As for the practical classes, it is essential that the student presents a responsible attitude during the hours they spend in the laboratory, which will come off the acquisition of skill in the manipulation of microorganisms.
Regarding the interactive classes, students will benefit from an attitude participatory, with the most appropriate time for intervention in the classroom.
Maria Isabel Santos Rodriguez
- Department
- Microbiology and Parasitology
- Area
- Microbiology
- Phone
- 881816028
- ysabel.santos [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
Maria Angeles Muñoz Crego
Coordinador/a- Department
- Microbiology and Parasitology
- Area
- Microbiology
- Phone
- 881816909
- a.munoz.crego [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
| Monday | |||
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| 15:00-17:30 | Grupo /CLIL_03 | Spanish | Laboratory 04. José Andrés Cornide y Saavedra |
| 17:30-20:00 | Grupo /CLIL_04 | Spanish | Laboratory 04. José Andrés Cornide y Saavedra |
| Tuesday | |||
| 15:00-17:30 | Grupo /CLIL_03 | Spanish | Laboratory 04. José Andrés Cornide y Saavedra |
| 17:30-20:00 | Grupo /CLIL_04 | Spanish | Laboratory 04. José Andrés Cornide y Saavedra |
| Wednesday | |||
| 15:00-17:30 | Grupo /CLIL_03 | Spanish | Laboratory 04. José Andrés Cornide y Saavedra |
| 17:30-20:00 | Grupo /CLIL_04 | Spanish | Laboratory 04. José Andrés Cornide y Saavedra |
| Thursday | |||
| 15:00-17:30 | Grupo /CLIL_03 | Spanish | Laboratory 04. José Andrés Cornide y Saavedra |
| 17:30-20:00 | Grupo /CLIL_04 | Spanish | Laboratory 04. José Andrés Cornide y Saavedra |
| 01.20.2023 10:00-14:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Main Hall Santiago Ramón y Cajal |
| 06.23.2023 10:00-14:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Classroom 04: James Watson and Francis Crick |