By enrolling in this postgraduate certificate you will be contributing not only with your updating, but with the improvement of the medical service that you can offer your patients” 

Tuberculosis is an infection that, despite being more controlled than in the 20th century, continues to affect millions of people each year. The numerous studies that have been carried out to determine its epidemiology, as well as to create increasingly effective treatments, allow specialists to treat these patients with increasing rigor. However, special attention must be paid when it comes to people who also suffer from other pathologies, since in these cases mycobacteria can worsen the situation, which requires specialized treatment.

That is why TECH has developed the Diploma in Mycobacterial Infections in Special Patients, a complete and intensive program that will allow the specialist to get up to date on this subject through a 100% online degree designed by experts in Microbiology. Thanks to the exhaustiveness with which it has been designed, you will be able to delve into the specifications of tuberculosis in patients with conditions in the renal system, the liver, with cancer, the elderly, immunosuppressed or those who have undergone lung transplants, among other cases. 

In addition, you will find additional material presented in different formats: detailed videos, images, research articles, and complementary readings that will help you contextualize the information and delve into those sections that you consider most relevant. In this way, you will be able to obtain personalized performance from this program, which, added to its accessibility and time flexibility, will allow you to catch up in a way that is perfectly reconciled with your professional and personal life.

A program designed by and for specialists who seek to update their knowledge in order to more effectively address patients with tuberculosis and other pathologies” 

This postgraduate certificate in Mycobacterial Infections in Special Patients contains the most complete and up-to-date scientific program on the market. The most important features include:

• The development of practical cases presented by experts in Medicine and Microbiology
• The graphic, schematic, and practical contents with which they are created, provide scientific and practical information on the disciplines that are essential for professional practice
• Practical exercises where self-assessment can be used to improve learning
• Its special emphasis on innovative methodologies
• Theoretical lessons, questions for the expert, debate forums on controversial topics, and individual reflection assignments
• Content that is accessible from any fixed or portable device with an Internet connection

In the Virtual Classroom you will find detailed videos, research articles and complementary readings so that you can delve into the sections that you consider most relevant”

The program’s teaching staff includes professionals from sector who contribute their work experience to this educational program, as well as renowned specialists from leading societies and prestigious universities.

Its multimedia content, prepared with the latest educational technology, will allow professionals situated and contextual learning, that is, a simulated environment that will provide immersive training programmed to train in real situations.

This program is designed around Problem-Based Learning, whereby the professional must try to solve the different professional practice situations that arise throughout the program. For this purpose, the student will be assisted by an innovative interactive video system created by renowned experts.

You will be able to delve into the scientific news of nephropathic patients and their clinical management when they have been infected by tuberculosis mycobacteria”

A 100% online program with which you can work on complex clinical pictures due to age and tuberculosis condition” 

The importance of personalized management of special patients who have also been affected by tuberculosis is what has led TECH and its team of experts to design this degree. It is an intensive program that pursues the objective of helping the specialist to update their knowledge exhaustively and based on the immediate news of the Microbiology sector. In this way, they will find in a single and accessible program all the tools that will allow them to update and improve their medical skills through a 100% online Postgraduate Diploma.

The more demanding your expectations are, the more you will be able to get out of this postgraduate certificate" 

General Objectives

• Develop updated and expanded knowledge in the specialist on the clinical management of patients with different pathologies infected, in addition, by mycobacteria
• Make available to the graduate the most innovative and effective material of the university environment that facilitates exhaustive and conscientious updating

Specific Objectives

• Become deeply familiar with the peculiarities of tuberculosis in different patients: nephropaths, hepatopaths, the elderly, patients treated with biologics, onco-haematological patients, lung transplant recipients and other patients with solid organ transplants
• Conduct an in-depth study of non-tuberculous mycobacterial infections in immunocompromised patients and patients with pulmonary pathology
• Know how to manage latent tuberculosis in immunosuppressed patients

If your objective is to know in detail the latest scientific advances in the clinical management of immunocompromised patients with latent tuberculosis, this program is perfect for you”