Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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2502442 Medicine | OB | 3 | 0 |
It is advisable that the student has attained basic skills in cell biology, biochemistry and molecular biology before enrolling in the immunology course.
It is absolutely necessary to have acquired sufficient knowledge in: general and specific anatomy and physiology of different organs and systems.
The student will preserve the confidentiality and professional secrecy of the data to which he / she may have access through to the learning process in the health care provider facilities. In addition, he/she behavior will follow the professional ethical code.
1) To know the essentials features of the molecular, cellular, anatomical elements of the immune system (SI) and their function in the healthy individual.
2) To understand the role of the immune system in the following pathological processes:
a. Common infections
b. Allergies and hypersensitivity in general
c. Immune-mediated diseases, autoimmune, autoinflammatoty and other
d. Immunodeficiencies
e. Cancer
F. Transplantation
3) To understand the basic action mechanisms of immune-based therapies:
a) Vaccines,
b) Immunosuppressants,
c) Immunemodulators
4) To learn and understand the basis of the laboratory and clinical tests that have diagnostic value for the immune mediated diseases
Contents of the subject by teaching units
Block 1 Basic Immunology
UD1 Introduction to immunology
UD2 Natural Immunity
UD3 Clonal receptors and their ligands
UD 4 Cells of the immune system
UD5 The immune response, regulation and effectors
Block 2 Immunopathology
UD6 The immune response in the whole organism and disease
UD7 immune responses in special clinical situations
UD8 Diagnostic tests in clinical immunology
UD9 immunology based therapies
This guide describes the contents, methodology and general rules of the course, in accordance with the current curriculum.
The Medical Immunology course runs during a semester and contains many new concepts and theferore attending lectures and daily study is strongly encouraged. Periodically on-line questionnaire will be used to assess the progress in the understanding by the students of the concepts presented and discussed in the lectures and seminars. Attending at least six keynote lectures is compulsory.
Immunological concepts will be applied by the student to paradigmatic clinical cases presented in seminars.
Some aspects of the organization of the teaching activities e.g. dates of the practicals and exams, will depend on the particular circumstances and facilities of the different teaching facilities that the university has in each of the UAB affiliated hospitals where the course is imparted.
For the current academic year, the responsible faculty designated by the department are:
Overall coordination Prof: Ricardo Pujol Borrell
Hospital coordinators
Vall d'Hebron: Ricardo Pujol Borrell
Germans Trias i Pujol: Eva Martínez Cáceres
Sant Pau: Óscar de la Calla and Cándido Juárez
Parc Taulí: Maria José Amengual
In the current exceptional circumstances, at the discretion of the teachers and also depending on the resources available and the public health situation, some of the theoretical classes, practicals and seminars organized by the Teaching Units may be taught either in person or virtually.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
CLASSROOM PRACTICES (PAUL) | 2 | 0.08 | 7, 9, 11, 12, 14 |
CLINICAL CASE SEMINARS (SCC) | 3 | 0.12 | 5, 9, 11, 10, 12, 14 |
LABORATORY PRACTICALS (PLAB) | 3 | 0.12 | 10, 14 |
Specialized seminars (SEM) | 2 | 0.08 | 17, 3, 5, 2, 6, 7, 8, 13, 11, 10, 12, 14, 15 |
THEORY (TE) | 26 | 1.04 | 17, 3, 5, 4, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 15 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
SELF STUDY.READING ARTICLES/REPORTS OF INTEREST | 58.5 | 2.34 | 17, 3, 5, 4, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 10, 12, 15 |
EVALUATION,
Continuous assessment
Written Test 1, MCQ and SAQ (60% and 40%) covering basic immunology i.e., material covered in lectures IMM1 to IMM15.
Written Test 2. MCQ and SAQ (60% and 40%) covering clinical immunology, i.e. IMM16-26 seminars and practicals. The minimal score in each is test is 6
The relative weight of each assessment in the final mark is: Test 1 30%, Test 2, 45%, on line, practicals and seminar questionnaires, 25%.
Final assessment.
Those students who fail to pass the course through the continuous assessment, will be given the opportunity to take a final global test. This will consist in SAQ and assays.
To pass the Medical immunological Course the minimal score is 5.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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ATTENDING LECTURES AND PARTICIPATING IN SEMINARS AS ASSESSED BY ON LINE QUESTIONAIRES | 10% | 2.5 | 0.1 | 17, 3, 5, 4, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 13, 11, 12, 15, 16 |
PRACTICALS AND CASE DISCUSSION AS ASSESSED BT WRITTEN AND ON LINE QUESTIONNAIRES | 15% | 0.5 | 0.02 | 1, 5, 2, 9, 10 |
WRITTEN EVALUATION :OBJECTIVE TESTS | 75% | 2.5 | 0.1 | 17, 1, 3, 5, 4, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 13, 11, 10, 12, 14, 15, 16 |
Main Textbooks
Abul K. Abbas, Andrew H. Lichtman, and Shiv Pillai. Cellular and Molecular Immunology: 9à edició. Elsevier Saunders, 2017. Amb access on line per estudiants; ISBN-13: 978-0323479783
Janeway's Immunobiology. 9th ed. Kenneth Murphy and Casey Weaver (Author)Garland Science, 2017, ISBN-13: 978-0815345053
Other recommended textbooks
Roitt's Essential Immunology, Peter J. Delves, Seamus J. Martin, Dennis R. Burton, Ivan M. Roitt Wiley-Bolcall, 2016. ISBN-13: 978-1118415771
Kuby - Immunology. 7a edició Ed. WH Freeman 2013; en cas de dificultat amb l’anglès es pot usar el “Inmunología” de Kuby, 6a edició en espanyol.
Peter Parham; The Immune System, Garldand Science, 4rd edition, 2014.
Addtional reading
Clinical Immunology, Principles and Practice. Robert R Rich. 4ª edició Mosby, 2019. ISBN-13: 978-0723436911
Internet resources
http://www.roitt.com, Figures, and questionnaires for self assessment
Videos on line
Els increibles videos de microscopia multifotónica de Ronal N Germain
https://www.niaid.nih.gov/research/ronald-n-germain-md-phd