Universitat Internacional de Catalunya
Allergy and Clinical Immunology
Teaching staff
Students may ask lecturers questions at the end of each class. For enquiries outside of class time, students must make an appointment by email:
Dr. Enrique Martí Guadaño enricmarti@uic.es
Dra Maria Pilar Llobet: mpllobet@uic.es
Dra Maria Aránzazu Vega: mavega@uic.es
Introduction
The knowledge of the immune system and its alterations are basic elements in the formation of the future graduate in medicine.
The dysfunctions of this system will affect a large part of systems and organs of the human body
You cannot understand certain diseases, without an integral vision of this system, fleeing many times to focus only on certain specificities
It is a proven fact that allergic diseases - we remember that allergy is an affectation of the immune system by excess - occupy a leading place in the prevalence of disease
Pre-course requirements
Competences/Learning outcomes of the degree programme
- 05 - Recognize own limitations and the need to maintain and upgrade professional skills, with particular emphasis on autonomous learning of new knowledge and skills and motivation for quality.
- 09 - Understand and recognize the effects, mechanisms and manifestations of disease on the structure and function of the human body.
- 10 - To understand and recognise the agents and risk factors which determine health status, and learn how they determine the symptoms and natural development of acute or chronic diseases in individuals and populations.
- 11 - Understand and recognize the effects of growth, development and aging on the individual and their social environment.
- 12 - Understanding the foundations for action, the indications and efficacy of therapeutic interventions, based on available scientific evidence.
- 15 - Ability to formulate an initial diagnosis and establish a rationalised diagnostic strategy.
- 16 - Recognize and deal with situations that put life in immediate danger and those that require immediate attention.
- 17 - Establish the diagnosis, prognosis and treatment, applying principles based on the best information possible and safe clinical practice..
- 18 - To indicate the most appropriate (pharmacological, surgical, psychological, social or other) treatments that are pertinent to the most prevalent procedures, in terms of rehabilitation and also terminally ill patients, including an evaluation of their effectiveness.
- 19 - Propose preventive measures appropriate to each clinical situation.
- 25 - Recognize the determinants of public health; genetic and sex-dependent lifestyle, demographic, environmental, social, economic, psychological and cultural determinants.
- 26 - Assume role in the prevention and protection from diseases, injuries or accidents and maintenance and promotion of health, both individual and at the community level.
- 31 - Understand, critically evaluate and know how to use sources of clinical and biomedical information to obtain, organize, interpret and communicate scientific and health care information.
Syllabus
1.- Presentation of the subject. Course objectives Dr. Enrique Martí; Day 9/9/20 from 14 to 15 hours; Immunology I: Day9/9/20 from 3pm to 4pm. Dr. Pilar Llobet
2.- Immunology II: Day 10/9/20 from 14 to 16 hours. Dr. Pilar Llobet
3 .-- Immunology III: Day 22/9/20 from 18 to 20 h. Dr. Pilar Llobet
4.- Immunology IV: Day 6/10/20 Dra. Pilar Llobet
5.- Aeroallergens and food allergens: Day 1/10/20: From 18 to 20 hours: Dr. Arantza Vega
Aeroallergens: Respiratory, Cutaneous Pathology
Food Allergens: Food in childhood, Food in adults, clinical patterns.
Latex allergy
Pan-allergens: Cross-reactivity syndromes.
6.- Allergy to medicines, insects and parasites: Day 15/9/20 from 16 to 18 hours Dr. Arantza Vega
Drug Allergy: Most frequent drugs, clinical pictures, Perioperative Reactions, Reactions due to iodinated contrasts.
Insect allergy: Hymenoptera, Other insects, Parasites (anisakis simplex).
CASE METHODS
Diagnostic algorithms in immunology: 18/9/20 from 16 to 18 and from 18 to 20 hours Dra. Pilar Llobet
Clinical history cases, diagnostic algorithms.
Referral protocols
2.- Diagnostic algorithms in Allergology./28/9/20 from 4 to 6 p.m. and 6 to 8 p.m. Dr. Enrique Martí
Clinical history, diagnostic algorithms.
Referral protocols
3.- Anaphylaxis: Dra. Arantza Vega; day . 10/14/20; from 16 to 18 and from 18 to 20 hours
Diagnostic criteria, emergency treatment, preventive measures, search for the causal agent. Resolution of 2 clinical cases.
4.- Treatments in Allergology. 28/10/20 from 4pm to 6pm and 6pm to 8pm Dra. Arantza Vega
Symptomatic treatments, specific treatments. Immunotherapy, tolerance induction, desensitization
5.- Diagnosis and treatment of Immunodeficiencies. Day 20/10/20 from 16 to 18 and from 18 to 20 hours Dra. Pilar LLobet
Clinical cases: clinical history, diagnostic algorithms, available treatments.
6.- Respiratory allergy Management of special situations in Allergology. 6/11/20 from 16 to 18 and from 18 to 20 hours Dr. Enrique Martí
Gestation, Sport, Occupational ... Preventive and avoidance measures in allergy.
7.- Dark points and highlights of the subject 13/11/20 from 16 to 18 and from 18 to 20 hours Dra. Arantza Vega
Clarification of the least understood aspects and comments on relevant aspects of the subject
LEARNING BASED ON PROBLEMS 3/11/20 from 16 to 18 and from 18 to 20 Dr. Enrique Martí
Diagnostic protocol for food and medication allergy and management of both. The class will be developed using real patients with physical presence in the class and interactivity, as central points.
SKILLS LABORATORY
5 Groups Dr. Enrique Martí
4/11/20 (2 groups ) from 16 to 18 and from 18 to 20 ; 5 /11/20 from 16 to 18; 10/11 from 18 to 20 ; 17/11 from 16 to 18 horas
Skin testing workshop.
Practical workshop on the management of asthma pharmacological multitreatment.
Application of adrenaline Practical workshop
Teaching and learning activities
In blended
The master class is the setting in which a teacher transmits the knowledge in a classroom to the entire group of students. The format, however, allows the introduction of activities in small groups within the classroom and the deployment of strategies that encourage the active participation of students.
This course, due to the problematic COVID, will be given exclusively online, with the Collborate platform
The case method consists of the process of solving clinical or profession-specific cases. They are group activities that are resolved with the active participation of the teacher detached from the deliberation of the students.
Problem-based learning has similarities to the case method but differs in that students are held responsible for finding the solution to the problem. The teacher acts as a tutor who facilitates the learning process based on their trained metacognitive skills. It is also done in groups.
The skills laboratory is an area in which the student can basically develop communication and physical exploration skills based on mannequins, robots and also simulator patients and real patients. They are done in groups.
Lecture (CM) is online.
Case method (MC), problem-based learning and Laboratory Practice are face to face.
Evaluation systems and criteria
In blended
The review of the exams will be done individually with the student upon written request within the established deadlines.
The passing of the clinical evaluation will keep an additional academic course: until the September call of the next academic year
FINAL QUALIFICATION (Accreditation)
Weighted sum of the Clinical Evaluation, 20%, and of the Written Evaluation, 80%
It is essential to pass the subject, get a 5 in the written evaluation
Bibliography and resources
Delves, Martin, Burton, Roitt. Inmunología. Fundamentos. 11ª edición. Editorial Panamericana, 2008
Abul K. Abbas, Andrew H. Lichtman, Shiv Pillai. Inmunología cellular y molecular. 6ª edición. Editorial Elsevier Saunders, 2008
Moisés Labrador, Luís Martínea. Compendio iconográfico de Inmunología. MRA ediciones, 2005
A. Peláez Hernández, I.J. Dávila González. Tratado de Alergología. Editorial Ergon 2007
Middleton. Allergy: principles and practice. 7ª edición. Editorial Mosby Elsevier 2009
Leslie C. Grammer, Paula A. Greenberger. Patterson, Enfermedades alérgicas. 7ª edición. Ed. Grupo Aula Médica S.L. 2011.
Mariana Castells. Anaphylaxis and Hypersensitivity Reactions. Editorial Springler. February 2011
Evaluation period
- E1 15/12/2020 16:00h
- E2 15/07/2021 14:00h