Organizer: Department of Microbiology and the Carol Yu Centre for Infection, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong
Message from Prof KY Yuen:
Dear Colleagues
I would like to take this opportunity to introduce to you the Infectious Disease Courses and Postgraduate Diploma Programme 2008-2010, organized by Department of Microbiology and the Carol Yu Centre for Infection, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong.
This is the 10th intake of the Programme which started in 1998. The programme represents an effort to improve the awareness and management of infectious diseases by clinicians in Hong Kong and is the first organized programme of its kind in Hong Kong.
The Programme is made up of six two-day courses over a period of two years. The aim is to bring latest advances in the diagnosis and management of infectious diseases to practising clinicians in practicable and understandable terms by local and overseas experts in infectious diseases.
The amount of undergraduate teaching in infectious diseases and clinical microbiology is on the low side because of the competing needs from other subjects. But it is also true that even if these are taught, they will just be forgotten because undergraduates are not managing such patients during the student days. Such gap in knowledge and skill is especially severe in the areas of antimicrobial therapy, clinical diagnosis of infectious diseases, tropical medicine, infection control and infections in immunosuppressed hosts which are emphasized in this diploma programme and update course in infectious diseases.
Courses 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 had already been held in November 2008; April, July and November 2009 and April 2010 respectively.
The upcoming course will be held from 17-18 July 2010 in the Lecture Theatre of the William MW Mong Block of the Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong. The course fee is HK$1,000 for two full days, inclusive of lecture handouts and refreshments. Topics that will be covered include:
-A to Z in clinical microbiology
-Antibiotic guidelines and optimization programme
-Antivirals: how far have we come since acyclovir?
-CMV diseases in transplant recipients and non-transplant patients
-Control of MRSA in the hospital: research-driven or guideline-driven?
-Dealing with hepatotoxicity in patients receiving anti-tuberculous treatment
-‘Decreased general condition’ – a diagnostic challenge in the elderly
-Diabetic infection quartet
-Disseminated mycobacteriosis, penicilliosis, salmonellosis, and burkholderiosis due to auto-antibodies against interferon gamma
-Evidence-based prescription: quinolones
-Generic antibiotics: cheap and cheerful?
-ICU practices to reduce complications associated with nosocomial infection
-Infection in immunocompromised hosts
-Infections associated with body modification and body contouring
-Infective complications in SLE and transplant recipients
-Neutropenic and post-neutropenic fever: policy and controversy
-Transplant- and transfusion-related infections: Pseudomonas fluorescens, Lyssavirus, and Arenavirus
-Unusual manifestations of and diagnostic tests for zoster
-Why shouldn’t old and weak people eat sashimi?
Course information / application form:
http://www.hku.hk/acad/pgp/2010/form/R211_APPLICATIONFORM.pdf (diploma programme)
or
http://www.hku.hk/facmed/03edu_post_taught.htm#prog10 (bullet #4 – individual course)
Colleagues who are interested in the programme can take individual courses that they find useful. These courses are CME-accredited by Colleges in the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine and Hong Kong Medical Association.
Anyone who is interested in the course may contact Karis (kyylarm@hkucc.hku.hk, Tel: 2255 3243) or Miss Goretti Tse (hkumicro@hkucc.hku.hk, Tel: 2255 4892), Department of Microbiology, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital.
Looking forward to seeing you in the forthcoming course(s).
Best regards
Yours sincerely
Professor Yuen Kwok-yung
Chair of Infectious Diseases
Academic Director, PDipID
HKWC CC(MIC) / QMH COS(MIC)
