The relevance of this discipline lies in the fact that infectious pathology has a significant share in the structure of the morbidity of the population: infectious diseases account for more than 35% at the general practitioner’s clinic and at home visits, and over 80% during epidemics.

This program is designed for students of higher medical educational institutions. Its main task is to develop students' knowledge of pathogenesis, the clinic of infectious diseases, modern methods of diagnostics, treatment and preventive measures. At the same time, the diagnostics and differential diagnostics of infectious diseases are becoming an increasingly difficult task due to the evolution of their clinical course, the wide spread of mixed infections, and the emergence of new nosological forms. Therefore, the inclusion in the program of questions of differential diagnostics of infectious diseases will contribute to the formation of skills for early diagnostics of infectious pathologies.

In practical classes, special attention is paid to the development of clinical check-up skills, preliminary and clinical diagnosing, the administration of an examination and treatment plan. In clinical trials of patients, the emphasis is on the interpretation of laboratory findings, the conditions for discharge of patients and clinical check-up.

To study the "Infectious Diseases" discipline the basic teaching-and-advisory methods are used: students working in practical classes and lectures, with visual aids, examining patients with various symptoms and syndromes, analyzing clinical cases, in-depth study of individual sections of the course on reference books and monographs.
 

For students majoring in General Medicine

Total labor input: 5 credits (180 hours)
Classrooms sessions: 90 hours
Students’ independent work: 90 hours
Semester: 9
Final control: exam