Common problems and diseases in tropical region nutritional deficiency disorders, liver diseases, infectious diseases, tropical cutaneous diseases, cancer, endocrine disorders, treatment of diseases, prevention and vaccination

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

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

Description, analysis research, diseases control and its efficacy study, methods of epidemiological investigation. Design, analysis and interpretation are discussed and practiced with computer programs

Basic principles of statistics, data enumeration and presentation, sampling error, estimation and hypothesis-testing using programmable calculator programs and statistical packages

Concepts and theoretical models in health social science being used to explain and analyze people's health problem and illness, in relation to tropical diseases. Social, cultural and economic perspective of the health care system, behavioral modification, medical ethic for conducting human research as well as health economics

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

Specimen preparation, Parasitic disease diagnosis from specimens in laboratory condition, Parasitic helminth and protozoa cultivation, Immunological diagnosis of helminth, Molecular diagnosis of malaria, Detection of malaria, filaria, and dengue virus pathogen in mosquito vector by various methods

The following advanced microbiology topics: nosocomial infection and control, genomic application in clinical Microbiology, emerging/re-emerging infections, Rickettsial infections, new antimicrobial agents

Techniques used in characterization of medical important bacteria, fungi and viruses from patient’s specimens. Culture and diagnose some pathogenic bacteria, fungi and virus

Animal manipulation, immunological and molecular biology techniques for the diagnosis of bacterial infection, viral infection and other tropical diseases

Statistical methods and their application in clinical research consisting of basic concepts, statistical methodology, chance or error from sampling, correlation, linear regression, survival analysis, sample size estimation

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

Observation on the patients admitted to the hospital(s) in the endemic areas of selected tropical diseases in order to gain direct experience of how to diagnose tropical infectious diseases using proper laboratory investigation clinical manifestation and discussion on the treatment and care for these patients. Introduction to primary health care and referral system for care of tropical infections diseases included