Course Specifications

Credit(lecture-lab-field practive)
TMID 525 Food- and Water-borne Diseases (I) and Soil-transmitted Helminthiases
3 ( 2-2-5)
Prerequisite: None
 
Food and water-borne gastrointestinal diseases caused by bacteria, viruses, protozoa and soil-transmitted helminthes; life-cycle; pathogenesis; pathology; clinical manifestations; diagnosis; treatment; prevention and control
TMID 526 Food- and Water-borne Diseases (II) (Tissue Parasites)
2 (2-0-4)
Prerequisite: None
 
Food- and water-borne extra-gastrointestinal parasitic diseases; pathogens; intermediate hosts; life-cycle; pathogenesis; pathology; clinical manifestation; diagnosis; treatment; prevention and control
TMID 527 Mosquito-borne Diseases
3 ( 2-2-5)
Prerequisite: None
 
Mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria, dengue infection, Japanese encephalitis and lymphatic filariasis; epidemiology; pathogens; mosquito vectors; life cycle, pathogenesis; pathology; clinical manifestations; management; prevention and control
TMCD 504 Clinical Apprenticeship   
6 ( 3-6-9)
Prerequisite: None
 
Ward round and clerkship daily under supervision of ward staff including a guide to holistic approach and monitoring in-patients with tropical diseases and bedside teaching of history taking; physical examination; diagnosis and differential diagnoses; laboratory interpretation and planning of proper management
TMCD 535 Seminar in Clinical Tropical Medicine
3 (2-2-5)
Prerequisite: None
 
Literature search; review and summarize findings on interesting topics in tropical diseases; interpret; analyze; and criticize scientific articles logically; medical reviews; principles and methodology of conducting a literature search; statistics in medical research; critical appraisal of the literature; principles of writing and presenting literature reviews of medical papers
TMCD 509 Medical Problems in the Tropics
2 (2-0-4)
Prerequisite: None
 
Problems and diseases commonly found in travelers, counseling for travelers, prevention and treatment of common diseases, pre-traveling and post-traveling screening.
TMCD 526 Tropical Medicine Apprenticeship
6 (3-6-9)
Prerequisite: None
 
History taking; differential diagnosis; laboratory test interpretations;  plan of treatment, and clinical progression of inpatient and outpatient with tropical diseases
TMCD 527 Clinical Case Teaching  
3 (3-0-6)
Prerequisite: None
 
Presentation of common medical problems in tropical medicine with interesting diseases leading to intensive case oriented discussion on how to get proper information from history taking, physical examination and laboratory results and interpret all valuable data will be done under guidance of lecturer. Brief review of the selected diseases will also be added
TMCD 503 Introduction to Clinical Research
1 (1-0-2)
Prerequisite: None
 
Basic research methodology and application in medical study, including protocol writing; clinical trials; diagnosis tests; etiologic study; good clinical practice; designing case-record forms; sampling and allocation; ethical issues and consent form; conduct of the study; data management; publication and presentation
TMTP 501 Pediatric Problems in the Tropics
2 (2-0-4)
Prerequisite: None
 
Application of basic medical knowledge to manage common pediatric problems and diseases in the tropics, common specific pediatric diseases congenital infections, common kidney diseases, significant hematologic diseases and malnutrition.
TMTP 504 Management of Common Pediatric Problems
2 (2-0-4)
Prerequisite: None
 
Analysis, differential diagnosis, plans of laboratory investigations, treatment of the common pediatric problems fever, cough, dyspnea, seizure, diarrhea.
TMTP 510

Seminar in Tropical Pediatrics

3 (3-0-6)
Prerequisite: None
 
Analysis, discuss, criticize scientific articles in tropical pediatrics using evidence-based data.
TMID 547

Seminar in Tropical Pediatrics

3 (3-0-6)
Prerequisite: None
 
Analysis, discuss, criticize scientific articles in tropical pediatrics using evidence-based data.
TMID 526

Food- and Water-borne Diseases (II) (Tissue Parasites)     

2 ( 2-0-4)

Prerequisite: None
 

Food – and water-borneextra-gastrointestinal parasitic diseases, pathogens, intermediate hosts, life cycle, pathogenesis, pathology, clinical manifestation, diagnosis, management, prevention and control.

TMID 528 Non-mosquito Vector-borne Diseases  and Zoonoses  
2 ( 2-0-4)
Prerequisite: TMTP 506
 
Non-mosquito vector-borne diseases and zoonoses, epidemiology, pathogens, vectors, life cycle, pathogenesis, pathology, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, management, prevention and control.
TMID 529 Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Human Immuno Deficiency Virus
2 ( 2-0-4)
Prerequisite: None
 

Sexually transmitted diseases, Human Immunodeficiency Virus infection, AIDS related opportunistic infections, epidemiology, pathogen, pathogenesis, pathology, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, management, prevention and control.

TMID 530

Common Health Problems and Diseases in the Tropics

2 (2-0-4)
Prerequisite: None
 
Common health problems and diseases in the tropics, etiologies, risk factors, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, management, prevention and control.
TMID 543 Travel Medicine I 
1 ( 1-0-2)
Prerequisite: None
 
Common problems and diseases in travelers, pre-travelling and post-travelling screening, counseling, prevention and management.  
TMCD 503 Introduction to Clinical Research
1(1-0-2)
Prerequisite: None
 
Basic research methodology and applications in study process including protocol writing, ethical issues and consent form, diagnostic tests, designing case-record form, sampling and allocation under good clinical practice (GCP) and epidemiological and clinical trials including etiologic study, how to conduct the study, data management, publication and presentation.
TMCD 532 Travel Medicine II
2 (2-0-4)
Prerequisite: None
 

Pre-travel counseling, travel-related diseases prevention, travelers’ malaria, travelers’ diarrhea, water purification for travelers, international health control, underwater hazard, vaccination care of returned travelers.

TMNU 518 Human Nutrition
2 ( 2-0-4)
Prerequisite: None
 

Illness due to unbalance of dietary intake, cause of undernutrition and overnutrition.  Prolong malnutrition consequently, etiology of non infectious chronic diseases e.g. coronary heart diseases, diabetes mellitus and many types of cancers.  Overview of factors affecting world food supply and security, Modern concept of nutrition

TMTP 509 Critical Review in Pediatrics
3 (3-0-6)
Prerequisite: None
 
Evidence based pediatric information, criticism of medical journal, new trend in diagnosis and management of pediatric problems.
TMCD 697 Thematic Paper
6 (0-18-0)
Prerequisite: None
 

Learning process of doing research study including preparation of proposal, data collection and analysis, writing research related literature review with research defense to release thematic paper

TMCD 698 Thesis
12 (0-36-0)
Prerequisite: None
 
Research proposal’s design for problem solving and quality development, which reflects new discovery, research process, compilation, proposed dissertation, research ethics, dissertation for academic publishing, ethic in academic publishing