Medical Immonology

Basics of Medical Immunology for Pre-Med, Pre-Dental, Pre-Pharm and Pre-Nursing students

What you'll learn

1) Know all the elements of the immune system: Cells, Markers, Antibodies, Complements

2) Understand the Innate and Acquired immunity and the role of vaccines.

3) Understand the Transplant immunology and why rejections occur and how to compromise immunity

4) Understand Immunodeficiencies like AIDS and Autoimmune Diseases

5) Understand the mechanism of actions of some drugs that affect the immune system

6) Understand the clinical and new advanced application of Medical Immunology in treatment of diseases such as cancer

7) Identify the common lab tests and the common mechanism of testing for infectious diseases or inflammatory markers

Requirements

Basic knowledge of Hematology

Basic Knowledge of Human Anatomy including Microscopic Anatomy and Human Physiology

Description

Immunology is crucial in Medicine now, especially after the COVID-19 Pandemic and the ongoing debates regarding vaccines. So, understanding the immune system can help us fight cancer, combat infectious diseases, come up with new drugs and vaccines, understand transplants and transfusions, and deal with autoimmune diseases, this course should help you understand the link between the cellular and subcellular details of the immune system and the application in the clinical real world.This course is to help you understand the basics of the immune system and how it works in addition to the practical and clinical applications. You will be able to understand the underlying mechanism of action of different immune cells and the pathology that comes from either immune deficiency or autoimmune diseases. Also, the lab interactions used for common lab testing in clinical practice. Textbook(s):‘Review of Medical Microbiology and Immunology’, Author: Levinson, Warren, MD,PhD,13th Edition, Publisher: McGraw Hill Education 2014.ISBN 978-0-07-181811-1This course is designed for understanding and the MCQs in the the text book are USMLE style exam which can also be useful for other similar license exam.You will do some web searches for further details on topics of interest like on Pub-Med or the CDC official website.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction and Cellular Basis

Lecture 1 Intro to Immunology

Lecture 2 Lecture 2: Cellular Basis of Immune Response

Section 2: Antibodies and Humoral Immunity

Lecture 3 Antibodies

Section 3: Cell Mediated Immunity

Lecture 4 Cell Mediated Immunity, MHC and Transplant

Section 4: Complement

Lecture 5 Complement System

Section 5: Application in lab work

Lecture 6 Ag-Ab reaction in lab

Section 6: Clinical Application

Lecture 7 Hypersensitivity ( Allergy)

Lecture 8 Tolerance and Autoimmune Diseases

Lecture 9 Tumor Immunology and Immune deficiency

Biology Premed, Pre Nursing, Prepharmacy and Pre Dental Students