Course At A Glance

Course: Common infections in children
Total Duration: 9Hours 28 Mins
Medium of instruction: English
Fee is Rs 3700/- (For Indian Drs )
Fee is US $ 56 ( For International Drs )

About the Course

Children’s immunity is not yet mature when they are born, not even for several years later. So they are prone to many infections in this early phase of life. This course discusses in detail the most common childhood infections like chicken pox, mumps, rubella, diphtheria, etc., including the causative agent, mode of transmission, pathogenesis, clinical features, diagnosis, and pharmacological treatment, vaccination and prevention.

Course Syllabus

1. Shigella and Cholera
2.Chicken Pox
3.Malaria
4.Dengue Fever
5.Helminthiasis and Other Parasitic Infections
6.Tetanus Neonatorum
7.AIDS in Childhood
8.Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission
9.Diphtheria
10.Tetanus
11.Poliomyelitis
12.Polio Eradication Programmes
13.Measles
14.Pertussis
15.Mumps
16.Rubella

Course Delivery Format

Taking leaf from Winston Churchill’s philosophy of “always ready to learn although … not always like being taught”, IMA eVarsity is transforming medical education by garnering learning empowered by the interactive platform of digital technology. IMA eVarsity model of blended education integrates best practices of ‘chalk and board’ with emerging technologies, purporting to make mockery of fragmented medical care, that is the bane of the rising costs of health care today!

The IMAevarsity offers best of the models of blended education through online lectures, with the convenience of self-study at one’s own pace, time and place, complemented by online faculty interactions and clinical exposure through hospital rotations.

A rich learning environment is provided through a Learning Platform with access to:

Online lectures delivered by experts in respective fields. The students can view the lecture any number of times using tools to conveniently play/pause, forward/rewind, skip/review, bookmark
Included in these lectures are hundreds of text slides, illustrations and appropriate 2D and 3D animations, audios and videos to make concepts easy to understand
Facility for the student to bookmark specific segments of a running lecture and ability to add your own notes for later review.