 
Class of 2023
 Go Back | | Session Title: | | Parasitology | | | Teaching Hours: | | Teaching and Learning Methods | Total Scheduled Hours = 1
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| Blueprint ID | Learning Objectives | | 7649 | Define intermediate host, definitive host and vector | | 7709 | Recognize the importance of a parasite’s life cycle, with focus on Plasmodium spp. (Malaria) | | 7710 | Distinguish parasites as being a protozoan or helminth | | 7711 | Describe important characteristics (epidemiology, transmission, disease manifestations, diagnostic techniques, and first line treatment) for each parasite group: Protozoans (Intestinal, Blood, Tissue, Kinetoplasts) and Helminths (Nematodes, Cestodes, Trematodes) | | 7712 | Identify these organisms based on select clinical and/or diagnostic findings: Entamoeba histolytica, Giardia lamblia, Leishmania spp., Ascaris lumbricoides, Strongyloides stercoralis, and Schistosoma spp. | | 11788 | Differentiate arthropod groups and compare infectious diseases they transmit | | |
| Blueprint ID | Course Goals | | 7416 | Integrate basic and clinical sciences as they relate to common clinical encounters and patient symptoms
Linked Program Competencies
To This Course Goal: me-6 | | me-6 | Medical Expert
Apply knowledge of the clinical, socio-behavioural, and fundamental biomedical sciences relevant to a clinical problem. |
| (052) ABNORMAL LIVER FUNCTION TESTS | | (060) ORAL CONDITIONS | | (038) SKIN AND INTEGUMENT CONDITIONS |
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