Pharmacists should be aware of the optimal treatment for infections that occur in the workplace”

 The cure of infectious diseases is one of the great challenges of today's society and, in order to achieve a reduction in the morbidity of affected persons, or to try to alleviate their symptoms, it is necessary for the pharmacist to have a solid knowledge of the subject, adapted to the latest developments.

Among the most important infectious diseases worldwide are malaria and tuberculosis. The first is endemic in more than 100 countries and the objective is to reduce mortality by at least 20% over the mortality rate observed in 2005. Meanwhile, tuberculosis accounts for some 8 million new cases per year and more than 1 million deaths, with 20% of the cases associated with HIV/AIDS infection, with problems of resistance to treatment and lack of compliance with treatment, which led the WHO to consider tuberculosis a global health emergency in 1993. 

It is especially important for pharmacists to take the necessary precautions to treat patients who have some type of infection, since a simple occupational accident can infect them. In these cases, it is important to take precautions, especially to avoid bloodborne infections.

Therefore, this postgraduate certificate focuses on providing pharmacists with the necessary knowledge about the main blood borne infections and the best behaviors in the face of occupational accidents, with special emphasis on biosafety measures and the role of the epidemiologist in reducing biological risks, offering the best and most updated content on the market. 

For the pharmacist's CV, it is a plus to be up to date with the latest advances for the treatment of infections and the precautions that workers should take for the prevention of occupational accidents”

This postgraduate certificate in Infections Caused by Occupational Accidents for Pharmacists endorses the latest advances in clinical infectious diseases with a teaching program that positions it as an educational product of the highest scientific rigor at international level. Additionally, this program provides training and professional development in different areas: 

• Clinical symptoms development medicine to be able to address the infectious health  disease process in a particular person through the study of the most prevalent and deadly infectious diseases, and, in epidemiology, to study the behaviour of the same phenomenon in a population
• The indication, performance and interpretation of the main state of the art diagnostic tests to complement clinical skills in the diagnostic process. Emphasizing the most up to date microbiological tests used to rapidly diagnose germs and study antimicrobial
• The complex and determining pathophysiological relationships between the immune response and infectious agents
• Germs related to neoplasms and chronic non-communicable diseases
• Development and production of vaccines for the control of morbidity and mortality due to infectious diseases
• The important field of antimicrobial therapeutics, providing the best available information on the development and production of new antibiotics

This postgraduate certificate will help you to grow personally and professionally”

Its teaching staff is made up of prestigious and renowned professionals with a long career in health care, teaching and research, who have worked in many countries on several continents, developing professional and teaching experience that they deliver in an extraordinary way in this postgraduate certificate. 

The methodological design of this postgraduate certificate, developed by a multidisciplinary team of e-learning experts, integrates the latest advances in educational technology for the creation of numerous educational multimedia tools that allow the professional, based primarily around the Problem Based Learning method, to address real problems in their daily clinical practice, which will allow them to advance by acquiring knowledge and developing skills that will impact their future professional work. 

It should be noted in this postgraduate certificate that each of the contents generated, as well as the videos, self evaluations, clinical cases and exams, have been thoroughly reviewed, updated, and integrated by the teachers and the team of experts that make up the working group, to facilitate the learning process with a step by step approach in order to achieve the teaching program objectives. 

This postgraduate certificate shows the latest advances in infectious diseases with the highest scientific rigor"

There is a need for pharmacists to take preventive measures in the treatment of patients with infectious diseases"

The main objective of the postgraduate certificate is the improvement of pharmacy professionals, by helping them acquire the most up to date and innovative scientific knowledge in the field of infectious diseases and how they are treated, allowing them to develop the skills that will turn their daily pharmaceutical practice into a benchmark of the standards of the best scientific evidence available, with a critical, innovative, multidisciplinary and integrative sense.

Update your knowledge on Infections Caused by Occupational Accidents for Pharmacists with us and you will see how you improve in your daily practice"

General Objective

• Guarantee professional improvement, through up to date and in depth knowledge of the best scientific evidence , for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of infectious diseases with a multidisciplinary and integrative approach that facilitates the control of these pathologies

Specific Objectives

• Provide students with advanced, in depth, updated, and multidisciplinary information that allows them to comprehensively approach the process of health infectious diseases
• Provide training and practical theoretical improvement that will enable a reliable clinical diagnosis supported by the efficient use of diagnostic methods to indicate an effective integral treatment
• Describe the main elements that favour occupational accidents and the transmission of blood borne pathogens
• Substantiate the importance of the control of viral haemorrhagic diseases and the detailed study of the most frequent and deadly diseases for the reduction of morbidity and mortality worldwide

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