Courses

Target audience

• Clinicians in training with an interest in Respiratory Medicine/Infectious Diseases
• Microbiology specialists
• Clinical immunologist
• Clinical epidemiologists
• Internal medicine specialists

Educational aims

To be able to:

• Apply key epidemiological concepts to the clinical practice
• Use new skills to diagnose tuberculosis (TB) infection and disease in adults and children
• Use new skills to treat latent TB infected individuals and drug-susceptible TB cases (adults and children)
• Understand the principles underlying treatment of multi-drug resistant TB cases
• Draft a scientific article and look critically to published studies on TB and MDR-TB
• Identify the priority areas for research and draft research protocols
• Build up networks of clinicians and scientists in TB and MDR-TB care and research
• Identify and use the principles of career advice, planning and developing networks