PGC5110 · Infectious diseases pharmacotherapy

Overview

This unit will provide a broad overview of the treatment and management of common infections seen in community and hospital settings, principles of microbiology and infectious diseases, antimicrobial use, and antimicrobial stewardship. It will help you to develop and apply infectious diseases and antimicrobial use knowledge and skills in the care of patients in community or hospital settings. The knowledge and skills developed will be at a general level rather than at the level required for a specialist infectious diseases pharmacist. You will be expected to arrange a visit to a microbiology laboratory, but all other unit activities are online. You will be expected to post on online discussion boards during the weeks the assessed discussions are active.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

This unit contains one or more competency hurdle assessment tasks that you must successfully complete to be able to pass the unit. You have one attempt, plus an additional assessment capped at 50% of the available marks for the task, to demonstrate your competency in the competency hurdle assessment task. If you fail to meet the hurdle requirement, you will receive a fail grade for the unit regardless of the total marks you achieve.

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. Prepare and analyse treatment plans that optimise the use of antimicrobials
2. Recommend evidence based approaches to manage patients requiring antimicrobial treatment
3. Demonstrate critical thinking, communication skills relevant to peers and patients and problem-solving, with a focus on infectious diseases related and antimicrobial related topics
4. Critically reflect on your individual learning process and progress in clinical competence.

Workload

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled online learning activities and independent study. The unit requires on average 10-12 hours of learning activities per week, including teacher directed learning, independent study and reading time, participation in online discussions, research and preparation for assignments.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.