Overview
This unit will provide you with evidence based learning and practice to maximise your diagnostic capabilities for the accurate detection, identification and management of infectious diseases of humans. This unit will provide you with a comprehensive knowledge and understanding of infectious diseases, the laboratory identification of causative pathogens as well as their pathogenicity and epidemiology. The unit will also include provision of the skills necessary to undertake common practical laboratory processes in clinical bacteriology.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Prerequisites: MBIO19012 Microbiology BIOL12106 Molecular Biology
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 2 - 2017
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes – in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Residential Schools
This unit has a Compulsory Residential School for distance mode students and the details are:
Click here to see your Residential School Timetable.
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%). Consult the University’s Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades.
All University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback – Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from Student feedback report
To assist in cementing the amount of knowledge that is learnt each week, weekly quizzes might be helpful to remember the important topics.
Support self-assessment exercises are provided in the textbook that is recommended reading to accompany this course. Provision of further quizzes will be considered as formative feedback learning tools for specific themes.
Feedback from Student feedback report
The residential school/workbook had far too much content for the allotted time.There were too many cases to get through and not enough lab staff to go around for everyone and the many questions they had.
The residential school will be re-evaluated in response to student feedback, with regard to both content and workload, and how the learning experience may be improved in order to support student attainment of learning outcomes.
- Describe the principal bacterial pathogens, commensal flora and opportunistic pathogens of each of the human body systems
- Appraise the use of molecular techniques for identifying bacterial pathogens in human disease
- Use practical skills to isolate, identify and test the basic antimicrobial resistance of pathogenic bacteria
- Describe the mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance in bacteria
- Understand and apply appropriate quality control processes for practice in clinical microbiology
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1 - Practical Assessment - 35% | |||||
| 2 - Written Assessment - 15% | |||||
| 3 - Examination - 50% | |||||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1 - Communication | |||||
| 2 - Problem Solving | |||||
| 3 - Critical Thinking | |||||
| 4 - Information Literacy | |||||
| 5 - Team Work | |||||
| 6 - Information Technology Competence | |||||
| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | |||||
| 8 - Ethical practice | |||||
| 9 - Social Innovation | |||||
| 10 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | |||||
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
| 1 - Practical Assessment - 35% | ||||||||||
| 2 - Written Assessment - 15% | ||||||||||
| 3 - Examination - 50% | ||||||||||
Textbooks
Bailey & Scott's Diagnostic Microbiology
Edition: 13th (2013)
Authors: Patricia Tille
Elsevier Mosby
St Louis St Louis , Missouri , United States of America
ISBN: ISBN-13: 978-0323083300 ISBN-10: 0323083307
Binding: Hardcover
Additional Textbook Information
The specified text book is the same for BMSC12011 Clinical Microbiology and BMSC13003.Advanced Clinical Microbiology
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing style: Harvard (author-date)
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
p.strappe@cqu.edu.au
Module/Topic
Staphylococci/
Streptococci
Chapter
Chapters 14 and 15
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Aerobic Gram positive bacilli/
Filamentous Gram positive bacilli
Chapter
Chapters 16, 17, 18 and 19
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Enterobacteriaceae /
Pathogenic Enterobacteriaceae
Chapter
Chapter 20
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Oxidase positive Gram negative bacilli/
Facultative Gram negative bacilli
Chapter
Chapters 21, 22, 25, 29, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37 and 38
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Gram negative cocci - Moraxella catarrhalis and Neisseriaceae/ Anaerobes
& Residential School Block 1
Chapter
Chapters 40, 41 and 42
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Individual study time
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Mycobacteria/
Spirochaetes, Mycoplasmas & Ureaplasma, Chlamydiae and Rickettsiae
Chapter
Chapters 43, 44, 45 and 46
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Urinary tract infections
Chapter
Chapter 73
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Eye, ear, nose and throat & respiratory tract infections
Chapter
Chapters 69, 70 and 72,
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Skin, soft tissue and wound infections
Chapter
Chapter 76
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Genital tract infections and Gastrointestinal tract infections
Chapter
Chapters 74 and 75
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Infections of sterile sites / Automation and molecular testing
& Residential School Block 2
Chapter
Chapters 68, 71, 77 and 8
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Testing for antimicrobial susceptibility
Chapter
Chapter 12
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
1 Practical Assessment
Students will undertake analysis of cases in clinical microbiology over three days, designed to mimic true diagnostic microbiology laboratory cases.
End of residential school
Marks 1 week after residential school. All marked workbooks returned 1 week after the second residential school
Students will be assessed on the accuracy and interpretation of their laboratory investigations of the bacterial identification, staining and antimicrobial resistance of the cases provided. This assessment will be performed by use of a workbook for recording laboratory investigations and mock laboratory report for each case.
- Describe the principal bacterial pathogens, commensal flora and opportunistic pathogens of each of the human body systems
- Use practical skills to isolate, identify and test the basic antimicrobial resistance of pathogenic bacteria
- Describe the mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance in bacteria
- Understand and apply appropriate quality control processes for practice in clinical microbiology
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Ethical practice
2 Written Assessment
Students will write a 1200-1500 word essay on a microbial pathogen or an infectious condition chosen from a selection of topics made available via the unit Moodle site.
Week 6 Monday (21 Aug 2017) 11:45 pm AEST
Monday (4 Sept 2017)
Comments, mark and annotated eesay returned via Moodle site/CQU email.
The report will be worth 20%, and will be marked against the following criteria:
Content and range of knowledge - 15%
Style, grammar and presentation - 3%
Referencing - 2%
- Describe the principal bacterial pathogens, commensal flora and opportunistic pathogens of each of the human body systems
- Appraise the use of molecular techniques for identifying bacterial pathogens in human disease
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
Examination
Dictionary - non-electronic, concise, direct translation only (dictionary must not contain any notes or comments).
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Any assessable work undertaken or submitted for review or assessment must be your own work. Assessable work is any type of work you do to meet the assessment requirements in the unit, including draft work submitted for review and feedback and final work to be assessed.
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As a student, you are responsible for reading and following CQUniversity’s policies, including the Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure. This policy sets out CQUniversity’s expectations of you to act with integrity, examples of academic integrity breaches to avoid, the processes used to address alleged breaches of academic integrity, and potential penalties.
What is a breach of academic integrity?
A breach of academic integrity includes but is not limited to plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, cheating, contract cheating, and academic misconduct. The Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure defines what these terms mean and gives examples.
Why is academic integrity important?
A breach of academic integrity may result in one or more penalties, including suspension or even expulsion from the University. It can also have negative implications for student visas and future enrolment at CQUniversity or elsewhere. Students who engage in contract cheating also risk being blackmailed by contract cheating services.
Where can I get assistance?
For academic advice and guidance, the Academic Learning Centre (ALC) can support you in becoming confident in completing assessments with integrity and of high standard.
What can you do to act with integrity?
