Elective Courses

 

  • At least 2 courses of your choice (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