Specialist Clinical Skills Presentation and Management of Intra Abdominal Infections

Details

Title

Specialist Clinical Skills Presentation and Management of Intra Abdominal Infections

Type

Stage Two

Module code

HLS268

Requirement

Compulsory

Module objective

By the end of the training period trainees will, in respect to developing skills and knowledge required for understanding the presentation and management of intra-abdominal infection including hepatobiliary infection be able to:

• analyse, synthesise, evaluate and apply knowledge
• perform, adapt and master a range of technical and clinical skills and procedures and
• demonstrate the attitudes and behaviours necessary for professional practise as a Consultant Clinical Scientist dealing with the complexities, uncertainties and tensions of professional practise at this level

Knowledge and understanding

By the end of the training period the trainee will be able to demonstrate the ability to analyse, evaluate and synthesise relevant knowledge and its application to their professional practice in relation to:

• the predisposing factors, presentation, microbial causes, differential diagnoses and management of intra-abdominal infections including :
  • Liver abscesses
  • Viral hepatitis
  • Peritonitis and intraperitoneal infection including post-surgical infection
  • Pancreatitis
  • Continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) infections
• understanding the roles and limitations of molecular compared with culture-based methods for investigation of bacterial infection

Technical and clinical skills

By the end of the training period the trainee will be able to demonstrate a critical understanding of current relevant research, theory and knowledge and its application to the performance, adaptation and mastery of the following technical procedures and laboratory skills:

• making molecular diagnosis of intra-abdominal
• PCR methods for diagnosis of viral hepatitis
• Quantitative PCR for viral hepatitis B and C
• Hepatitis C genotyping (e.g. sequencing, probes, microarray)
• Molecular methods for investigating culture-negative samples (e.g. 16S).

By the end of the training period the trainee will be able to apply knowledge of intra-abdominal infections to perform, adapt and master the clinical skills necessary to:

• liaise with clinical pathology colleagues and the clinical team on the diagnosis and management of the patient with intra-abdominal infections as listed above
• use molecular methods to complement other approaches (e.g. culture, serology) when investigating cases of intra-abdominal infection