Course Specifications

Core course (8 Credits)
Credits (lecture-lab-self study)
TMCD 605 Designing Clinical Research 2 (1-2-3)
Prerequisite: None
 
The principles of clinical research, the importance of ethical aspects and good clinical practice (GCP); writing and presentation of research proposal; classification of clinical research, principles of clinical research; biostatistics in clinical research, administration of clinical research; Research grant applications; principles of ethical aspects and GCP
TMCD 615 Clinical Apprenticeship in Tropical Medicine
4 (0-8-4)
Prerequisite: None
 
Clinical practices of tropical diseases in adult patients with moral and ethics principles; gaining experiences in caring tropical discase patients in clinical manifestations, pathogenesis, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of tropical diseases
TMHG 604 Applied Medical Statistics I
2 (1-2-3)
Prerequisite: None
 
Applied medical statistics; foundation of medical statistics; probabilities, Hypothesis testing; statistical program STATA, and statistical tests in epidemiological studies; Chi-square test, logistic regression model, t-test and Linear regression model

 
Elective (4 Credits)
Credits (lecture-lab-self study)
TMCD 510 Parasitic Diseases
2 (2-0-4)
Prerequisite: None
 
Various parasitic diseases in the tropics; clinical manifestation; diagnosis and treatment
TMCD 511 Non-parasitic Diseases
2 (2-0-4)
Prerequisite: None
 
Common tropical diseases caused by bacteria, virus, fungus, biological toxins; other infections common tropical diseases from non parasitic infection in tropical region
TMCD 518 Malaria
2 (2-0-4)
Prerequisite: None
 
Malaria history, epidemiology, transmission, pathogenesis-pathophysiology, clinical manifestations and complications, immunological responses, diagnostic methods, treatments and management of complication, prevention and control; drug resistance and clinical research in malaria
TMCD 519 AIDS
2 (2-0-4)
Prerequisite: None
 
This subject provides the knowledge about AIDS in all aspects including epidemiology, virology and immunology, immunopathogenesis, host immune response to HIV virus, diagnosis, clinical manifestations, treatment, prophylaxis and prevention especially AIDS vaccines, psychosocial impacts, and HIV counseling
TMCD 604 Clinical Pharmacology
2 (2-0-4)
Prerequisite: None
 
The basic principles of clinical pharmacology included key pharmacokinetics parameters absorption distribution; metabolism; elimination; drugs intereacation; pharmacologic variability and introduction to the principles of toxicity of drugs and their metabolites.
TMCD 609 Hematological Methods in Tropical Medicine
3 (1-4-4)
Prerequisite: None
 
Hematology in tropical medicine, hematological method and interpretation of complete blood count, ferritin level, G-6-P-D enzyme level, lymph node and bone marrow, blood coaglulogram, blood transfusion in tropical diseases
TMCD 601 Special Topics in Clinical Tropical Medicine
2 (2-0-4)
Prerequisite: None
 
Review in special issue regarding pathogenesis, pathology, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, management, prevention of common problems in the tropics gained from literature, books, and research papers
TMCD 611 Literature Review in Tropical Medicine
2 (0-4-2)
Prerequisite: None
 
Specific topic in tropical medicine, literature search, judgment and criticizism of the publication validity, and presentation of the updated review by writing a report and oral presenting
TMCD 612 Clinical Practices in Tropical Medicine
3 (1-4-4)
Prerequisite: None
 
The overall medical care given to a patient suffering from tropical diseases. History taking, physical examination, diagnosis, differential diagnosis, laboratory investigation and treatment of patients with tropical diseases
TMCD 613 Interesting Case Report
1 (1-0-2)
Prerequisite: None
  An interesting case report on medical history, physical examination, laboratory investigation; diagnosis, managemen; and follow-up
TMCD 614 Laboratory Techniques in Clinical Biochemistry
1 (0-2-1)
Prerequisite: None
  New laboratory techniques in clinical biochemistry, indications and selection of appropriate laboratory tests, proper collection of the specimen, cautions and interpretations of laboratory results; including training performance skills on certain tests
TMCD 616 Clinical Pharmacokinetics
3 (1-4-4)
Prerequisite: None
 
Pharmacokinetics property and application of drugs use in tropical diseases; focususing on absorption; distribution; metabolism; excretion and drugs interaction of interested drugs in healthy individuals; infected subject with or without concomitants diseases
TMCD 696 Seminar in Tropical Medicine
1 (1-0-2)
Prerequisite: None
 
Literature search, review and summarize findings on interesting topics in tropical diseases; interpret; analyze; criticize scientific articles logically; scientific 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 scientific papers
TMTP 601 Special Topics in Tropical Pediatrics
2 (2-0-4)
Prerequisite: None
 
Review in special issue regarding pathogenesis; pathology, clinical manifestations; diagnosis; management; prevention of common or important diseases or problems in children in the tropics
TMHG 605 Applied Medical Statistics II
2 (1-2-3)
Prerequisite: None
 
Applied medical statistics; statistical program STATA; and statistical tests in epidemiological studies; including survival analysis, non-paremetric tests, sample size calculation, clinical trials and non-infieriority design

 

Dissertation for Plan 1
Credits (lecture-lab-self study)
TMID 898 Dissertation
48 (0-144-0)
 
Identifying research proposal; conducting research with concern of research ethics; data collection, analysis; interpretation of the resut; report the result in terms of thesis; presenting and publishing research in international peer-reviewed journal with ethical consideration

 

 

Dissertation for Plan 2
Credits (lecture-lab-self study)
TMID 699 Dissertation
36 (0-108-0)
 
Identifying research proposal; conducting research with concern of research ethics; data collection, analysis; interpretation of the result ; report the result in terms of thesis; presenting and publishing research in international peer-reviewed journal with ethical consideration