Healthcare personnel must always continue specializing in order to improve their daily practice with patients"

The cure of infectious diseases is one of the great societal challenges of today and, to achieve a reduction in the morbidity of affected persons, or to try to alleviate their symptoms, it is necessary for the healthcare professional to have a solid grasp of the subject, adjusted to the latest developments. Regardless of their place of work, any physician may encounter having a patient with an infection originated in another country, since the evolution of tourism has caused citizens to reach all around the world and, on occasions, they do not take the necessary precautions.

Malaria and tuberculosis are among the most prevalent infectious diseases worldwide. The former is endemic in more than 100 countries and the objective is to reduce mortality by at least 20% over that observed in 2005. In turn, the latter accounts for some 8 million new cases per year and more than 1 million deaths, with 20% of cases associated with HIV/AIDS infection, with problems of resistance to treatment and lack of compliance with it, facts that forced the WHO to consider tuberculosis a world health emergency since 1993.

Furthermore, HIV/AIDS remains a pandemic in different parts of the world, with more than 1.8 million adults dying in 2016 and more than 600,000 children under the age of 15 infected in a single year. In developing countries, current treatment is out of reach for many people, and there are numerous cases of resistance to the antiretroviral drugs used.

All this is even more alarming if we take into account all the new infectious diseases that have emerged in the last 20 years, which display epidemic behavior. For this reason, it is essential for the health professional to be aware of the new treatments for the different types of infections, even for the most infrequent or unknown ones, as well as for occupational accidents that can lead to the transmission of blood-borne infections. 

Immerse yourself in this specialization and be the best in your medical specialty"

The postgraduate diploma in Infections Caused by Accidents and Travel endorses the latest advances in clinical infectious diseases with a didactic teaching program that positions it as an educational product of the highest scientific rigor at international level. The program also provides training and professional development in different areas:

• Firstly, Clinical features, in order to address the health-infectious disease process in a particular person through the study of the most prevalent and deadly infectious diseases and, secondly, in Epidemiologic features, to study the behavior of the same phenomenon in a particular population
• Training and professional development in 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 resistance
• Training and professional development in the complex and determining pathophysiological relationships between immune response and infectious agents
• Training and professional development in germs related to neoplasms and chronic non-communicable diseases
• Training and professional development in the development and production of vaccines for the control of morbidity and mortality due to infectious diseases
• Training and professional development in the important field of antimicrobial therapeutics, providing the best available information on the development and production of new antibiotics

Infectious diseases are spreading around the world, favored by tourism, which makes it essential for healthcare professionals to update their knowledge in order to offer improved patient care"

Its teaching staff is made up of prestigious and renowned Cuban 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 diploma.

The methodological design of this postgraduate diploma, 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 on 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 that the contents generated for this postgraduate diploma, 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.

Specialize with us in Infections Caused by Accidents and Travel and excel in your profession"

If you are looking for an online specialization adapted to your needs, do not hesitate, this postgraduate diploma will allow you to combine your studies with your profession.

The main objective of this postgraduate diploma university is the improvement of health professionals, based on the acquisition of the most up-to-date and innovative scientific knowledge in the field of infectious diseases and their treatment, enabling them to develop the skills that will turn their daily clinical practice into a bastion of the standards of the best scientific evidence available, with a critical, innovative, multidisciplinary and integrative focus.

With this specialization, healthcare professionals will be able to improve their daily practice by gaining knowledge in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of infections"

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
• Assess and interpret the epidemiological characteristics and conditions of the different continents where the appearance and development of infectious diseases often occur
• Explain the complex interrelationships between infections and different types of immunosuppression
• Address the important role of microbiology and the infectologist in the control of infectious diseases
• Describe the main elements that favour occupational accidents and the transmission of blood-borne pathogens
• Highlight the importance of morbidity and mortality due to infections in international travelers
• Describe the clinical, diagnostic and treatment features of sexually transmitted infections
• Identify the main germs involved in foodborne infections and their clinical significance
• Explain the pathophysiological and pathogenic interrelationships between tuberculosis co-infection and HIV/AIDS infection
• 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
• Delve deeper into the study of the most important parasitic diseases
• Expose the crucial issue of super-resistant microbes and their connection to the use of antimicrobials
• Highlighting the development of vaccines for new diseases
• Explain the clinical, diagnostic and treatment elements of rare or uncommon infectious diseases
• Emphasise the future challenges of infectious diseases in reducing infectious morbidity and mortality

Take advantage of the opportunity and take the step to get up-to-date on the latest developments in Infections Caused by Accidents and Travel"