 
Class of 2023
 Go Back | | Session Title: | | Gastrointestinal Infections | | | Teaching Hours: | | Teaching and Learning Methods | Total Scheduled Hours = 3
Lecture = 1
Tutorial = 2 |
| | Description: | | | | Keywords: | | Epidemiology, Preventive Care, illness prevention, critical judgment, problem-solving skills, clinical reasoning, clinical critical thinking |
| Lecture | | 1 hour(s) | | Tutorial | | 2 hour(s) | | Blueprint ID | Learning Objectives | | 8242 | Define diarrhea | | 8243 | Describe the investigations and describe management options for diarrhea | | 8244 | Recognize common conditions that cause diarrhea | | 8245 | Identify clinical signs of dehydration | | 8323 | Recognize normal flora populating segments of the GI tract and define its role | | 8324 | Define diarrhea and define clinical syndromes (secretory vs osmotic, inflammatory vs non-inflammatory) | | 8325 | List viruses, bacteria and parasites causing gut infections | | 8326 | Describe the diagnosis and management of the following GI infections: Helicobacter pylori gastritis, rotavirus, cholera, ascariasis, giardiasis, shigellosis, Clostridiodes difficile infection, toxic food poisoning and typhoid fever
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| Blueprint ID | Course Goals | | 7417 | Identify health care resources available for the investigation, treatment and management of the patient
Linked Program Competencies
To This Course Goal: me-3 me-4 me-5 me-6 cm-2 | | me-3 | Medical Expert
Formulate an initial plan of appropriate diagnostic and therapeutic procedures relevant to the patient’s presentation. | | me-4 | Medical Expert
Develop a differential diagnosis and key clinical problem list following assessment of a patient. | | me-5 | Medical Expert
Develop a management plan for key clinical problems following assessment of a patient. | | me-6 | Medical Expert
Apply knowledge of the clinical, socio-behavioural, and fundamental biomedical sciences relevant to a clinical problem. | | cm-2 | Communicator
Collect and synthesize accurate and relevant information, incorporating perspectives from patients and their families, colleagues and other health care professionals. |
| LOWER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING | | ACUTE DIARRHEA | | UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING | | ACUTE ABDOMINAL PAIN | | CHRONIC ABDOMINAL PAIN | | CHRONIC DIARRHEA | | FEVER AND HYPERTHERMIA | | VOMITING AND/OR NAUSEA | | WEIGHT LOSS / EATING DISORDERS / ANOREXIA | | OUTBREAK MANAGEMENT |
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