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PMED5101: Paediatric Allergy and Immunology
2024 unit information
This unit examines the worldwide status and trends in child and adolescent allergic disease. It explores the determinants, clinical assessment, medical complications, management and prevention of these important public health problems. Our aim is to inspect the current clinical practice and principles that underlie the diagnosis and management of paediatric allergic disorders. There is a close integration of epidemiology, basic science and best available evidence in management that are revealed through clinically based scenarios. Important cutting edge and controversial concepts and treatments are explored.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Medicine and Health
| Study level | Postgraduate |
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| Academic unit | Paediatrics |
| Credit points | 6 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Describe and discuss epidemiology and pathophysiology of allergic disorders in children
- LO2. Describe and appraise the evidence for primary prevention strategies, controversies, novel treatments and determinants of outcome in allergic disorders
- LO3. Describe and discuss the concepts relating to atopic march, IgE and non IgE mediated food allergy, atopic dermatitis and urticaria
- LO4. Demonstrate a high-level ability to recognise, diagnose and manage complex chronic allergic children who present with multiple system involvement and allergic disorders which are resistant to standard treatments.
- LO5. Describe and discuss the typical clinical presentation and clinical features of Allergic rhinitis and Insect allergy
- LO6. Demonstrate ability to recognise, diagnose and manage allergic disorders including those with complex multiple system involvement and drug resistant scenarios
- LO7. Demonstrate a high-level ability to understand the mechanism by which immunotherapy may work in allergic rhinitis and insect allergy
- LO8. Review and recognise the components of the human innate immune system and adaptive immune response - cellular and humoral and their physiological roles
- LO9. Explain the role and importance of pattern recognition receptors (PRR) and recognize immune defects in this pathway
- LO10. Be able to understand and describe T lymphocyte subsets, their development and function in normal immune response and disease states
- LO11. Understand the pathophysiological basis of SCID and apply this understanding to interpret newborn screening for SCID, clinical presentations with SCID and treatment principles
- LO12. Be able to understand antibody diversity and explain B lymphocyte development and antibody production in normal immune response and disease states
- LO13. Discriminate various examples of immune deficiencies associated with antibody deficiency
- LO14. Develop an understanding of immunogenomics through examples of monogenic models of disease
- LO15. Understand and describe the pathophysiologic mechnsisms for autoimmunity and autoinflammation
- LO16. Integrate the understanding of pathophysiologic pathways in diseases of the immune system to recognise the use of selected biologic treatments
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