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, genetics 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: Eva Martínez Cáceres
Hospital coordinators
Vall d'Hebron: Manuel Hernandez
Germans Trias i Pujol: Eva Martínez Cáceres
Sant Pau: Óscar de la Calle Martín
Parc Taulí: Juan Francisco Delgado de la Poza
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.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
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 |
Continuous evaluation:
a.-Written tests (75% of the grade of the subject):
-A partial exam (comprising the basic teaching units) consisting of a multi-choice questionnaire and a short-question questionnaire. It represents 30% of your final grade. The partial will be liberatory with a minimum score of 6.
- A final exam comprising two parts: a part of the basic units (if they have not been previously released) and a part of the clinical units, including theoretical aspects of the practices and seminars (45% of the final grade).
To pass the subject it will be necessary to reach a minimum final score of the written tests of 5.
b.-Other continuing education activities (25% of the grade of the subject):
Exercises of practices, works and questionnaires; presential or in moodle
To be evaluable the student must pass the practices and seminars (in all cases) with attendance and minimum grade of 5.
Final evaluation:
Students who have not passed the subject through the continuous evaluation of written tests, may be presented to a retrieval exam of the written tests, provided that they have the attendances and evaluations of seminars and practices approved.This exam consists of topics (50%) and short questions(50%) that include all didactic units, seminars and practices and is necessary overcome it with a 5 to pass the subject. It represents 75% of the grade of the subject.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Attendance and active participation in classes and seminars evaluated with face-to-face and/or online questionnaires | 10% | 0.5 | 0.02 | 17, 3, 5, 4, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 13, 11, 12, 15, 16 |
Evaluation through case studies, reports and problem solving seminars, evaluated with face-to-face and / or online questionnaires | 15% | 2.5 | 0.1 | 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
Kuby - Immunology. 8a edició Ed. WH Freeman 2018
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 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
Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies (FOCIS) (www.focisnet.org).
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
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