This program will provide a professional award for graduates in medical science or related areas interested in infectious diseases. The student will develop an understanding of the latest techniques involved in the detection, and spread and control of infectious diseases as well as undertaking an extensive review of the literature and carrying out a supervised research project.
Duration is of one calendar year full time or the equivalent part time.
This unit will introduce students to the range of more recent antibiotics and how they act and outline the molecular and genetic mechanisms of how microorganisms acquire resistance to antimicrobials. This unit will outline the latest developments in the use of antimicrobials to treat infectious diseases as well as giving and overview of recent developments in controlling infectious diseases with vaccines. Dissertation 633 Students will be required to select a subject which is topical at the time and to review the literature on it and present it as a review article which would be suitable for publication. This unit will outline the principles of epidemiology and discuss the latest techniques which are available to type microorganisms and trace their spread. The latest techniques of infection control will also be discussed.