Welcome to Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

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• Welcome to
• Medical Microbiology
• and
• Infectious Diseases

Department of Molecular Genetics and
Microbiology Paul A. Gulig, Ph.D. Course
Director
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• www.mgm.ufl.edu/gulig/mmid
• and ModCore
• (some uniquely in ModCore)

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Overview

• The Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease
  Course is designed to give the prospective
  physician an understanding of the basic biology
  of microbial pathogens and the mechanisms by
  which they cause disease. The course will also
  give the prospective physician knowledge of the
  signs and symptoms of major infectious diseases
  and practice in developing differential diagnoses
  and fundamentals of treatment and prevention for
  these diseases.

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Educational Philosophy

• We believe that by understanding the basic
  structure and biology of pathogenic
  microorganisms and the principles of microbial
  pathogenesis, students will be able to better
  prevent, diagnose, and treat infectious
  diseases.  We believe that students learn best
  and teachers teach best in an atmosphere of
  mutual respect and caring.  Moreover, student
  interest should be nurtured and encouraged by
  acquainting students with the underlying
  scientific principles through a variety of
  teaching modalities, many of which originate with
  patient problems.  Lastly, we hope to foster, by
  example, the qualities of curiosity, industry,
  and compassion.

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Lectures

• 1. Lectures and clinical correlations in virology
  (4 weeks)
• 2. Lectures and clinical correlations in
  bacteriology (7 weeks)
• 3. Lectures and clinical correlations in mycology
  parasitology (1 week)

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Online Assignments

• "Bugs" cases (www.mgm.ufl.edu/gulig/mmid/bugs)
• Self instructional web pages of patient cases,
  designed to integrate virology, bacteriology,
  mycology, and parasitology and to give the
  student practice in recognizing the signs and
  symptoms of and developing differential diagnoses
  for specific infectious diseases.
• Some assigned cases will have unique testable
  material clearly labeled.

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Online Assignments

• Virtual Microbiology Lab (www.mgm.ufl.edu/gulig/m
  mid/mmid-lab)
• Same methods, interpretation, and thought
  processes as real wet lab
• Highly relevant to standardized exams

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Small group discussions

• Three "Current Topics in Microbiology"
• students read original medical research
  literature
• present issues
• Five Infectious Disease faculty-led "Clinical
  Microbiological Conferences"
• Reading
• Student presentation
• Exam questions

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6040
"Minutiae"

• 60 Basic Science/Pathogenesis
• 40 Diagnosis/Treatment

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My Job

• Research
• Bacterial Pathogenesis Vibrio vulnificus and
  Acinetobacter baumannii
• Teaching
• Medical Students
• Graduate Students
• Administration
• Associate Dean of Graduate Education
• Academic Status Committee
• Course Director (3 courses)
• Institutional Biosafety Committee
• Etc.

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Educational Philosophy

• Educational experience not limited to our spoken
  words, handouts, and PowerPoints
• Education does not stop with final exam

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Educational Philosophy

• Self education important
• Now and forever

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Professor ? Google Professor ?
Textbook Professor ? Encyclopedia
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Questions

• Using Forum on ModCore
• Basic Fact
• Look it up first
• Deeper understanding relationships
• Focus issue with what you know
• After class/email
• corrections/clarifications
• Show that you were in class or watched Medisite

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"ISSUES"

• We are fair
• We're not out to get you
• We make mistakes
• dropping exam questions or alternative answers
• appeal process scratch paper, time limited
• Ambiguity/disagreements
• between our faculty
• between our courses
• out there
• Corrections on Forum

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Textbooks

• REQUIRED Infectious Diseases A Clinical Short
  Course by F.S. Southwick.  Clinical Microbiology
  Conferences are based on material in this book,
  as are several clinical correlation lectures. 
  Pre-reading for CMCs this text for specific
  lectures.
• HIGHLY SUGGESTED Best basic science textbook
  Schaechter's Mechanisms of Microbial Disease,
  Fourth Edition.  Online access.  Questions
  regarding factual material directly from the text
  will initially be directed to the text.

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Other Books

• Recommended Examination Board Reviews
• Medical Microbiology Immunology, by Levinson
  and Jawetz (Appleton and Lange)
• NOT Microbiology Made Ridiculously Easy

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Student Performance Criteria

• Summative Evaluation Four exams and a final exam
• Final exam NBME Microbiology subject exam (must
  be passed with 10th percentile)
• Formative Evaluation Old exams online

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Exams

• TEST of Grade
• Exam I Virology 25
• Exam II Bacteriology 1 22.5
• Exam III Bacteriology 2 22.5
• Exam IV Mycology and Parasit. 10
• Final Exam NBME Subject (curved) 20

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Grading

• 75 PASS
• lt75 FAIL

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Competencies

• 1.  Medical knowledge
• Exams 75 passing
• Must make 10th Percentile on Subject Exam

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Competencies

• 2.  Patient care 
• Clinical Microbiology Conferences
• 3.  Practice Based Learning Competencies Current
  Topics in Microbiology
• 4.  Professionalism

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Professionalism

• Cheating
• Disruptive behavior (late, noisy, distractive)
• Disrespect and abuse
• Not completing evaluations

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Habla Español?

• Microbiology is a new language
• Only course not focused on human body
• Not a grid of facts
• Stories of patient-pathogen relationships

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Questions/Comments