About the Course
A wide variety of medical interventions have been generating a large number of immunologically altered subjects who are prone to a significant range of fungal diseases. These fungal diseases are known to cause significant mortality and morbidity in both the developed and the developing nations.
This course focuses on the clinically important fungi and covers the morphology of pathological fungi and their classification. A few laboratory tests and techniques helping in mycological diagnosis are also discussed. Topical and systemic pathological infections, opportunistic infections etc are explained in great detail.
Target Audience
Medical students – Allopathy, Dental.
Alternative Medicine students – Homeopathy, Ayurveda.
Para/Allied medical students – Nursing, Physiotherapy, BSc Microbiology.
Postgraduate students – General medicine, Family medicine, MD/MSc/PhD Microbiology.
Course Delivery Format
This course is delivered entirely online. It consists of a series of comprehensive lectures by a professor in the subject, appropriately annotated with slides, animations and wherever necessary, interactive content. The delivery offers tremendous flexibility. You may pause a teacher while you refer to your textbooks (not includes) and to take notes. You may also rewind a segment to listen to the teacher again or you may skip a slide or two if you already know that bit. You may bookmark a segment that you wish to return to later, maybe to refresh just before your exams. While the lessons in this course may be arranged in a particular order based on our curriculum, you have the flexibility to take them in order of your preference based on your personalized learning needs.
Benefits
While this course is to help you learn the subject from an online faculty, it may help you in several ways even if you are already enrolled in some medical, dental or paramedical school. Many of our students felt that the format in which this course is delivered has helped them to cope up against the fast paced lectures in actual class – it’s like having a TV remote in class to self-pace your teacher. Animations help understand concepts better by making concepts easy to understand… and difficult to forget.
Dr. A. S. Damle
Dr. I. Jyothi Padmaja
P. Vigneshwaran
SRMC College Batch 2008-2009.