IMMU0230-1 : Immunopathology

Study Programmes 2016-2017

IMMU0230-1

Immunopathology

Duration :

10h Th

Number of credits :

Bachelor in dentistry		1

Lecturer :

Michel Moutschen

Language(s) of instruction :

French language

Organisation and examination :

Teaching in the first semester, review in January

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents :

This course is actually an introduction to immunopathology, i.e. the study of diseases involving primarily or secondarily an abnormal functioning of the immune system. It constitutes therefore a transition between the course of general immunology of the third quadrimester and the courses of general and specialized pathology which will come afterwards. Unfortunately, the course is given simultaneously to students in biomedical sciences and dentistry, which does not allow an optimal differentiation taking into account the respective learning objectives of each section. Nevertheless, during the lectures and at the examns (which are different for each section, an emphasis will be laid on the mechanistic and molecular aspects (for the students in biomedical sciences) and on more clinical aspects (especially if they concern oral pathology) for the future dentists.
The principal chapters are

Immunodeficiencies and HIV infection/AIDS.
Allergy and hypersensitivity
Autoimmunity
Autoinflammation
Manipulation of immune responses

Learning outcomes of the learning unit :

Learning objectives of each lecture will be summarized at the beginning of each slide kit (available on E-campus)

Prerequisite knowledge and skills :

Planned learning activities and teaching methods :

Five two-hour lectures

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :

Face-to-face. Slide kits are also available on E campus. Students are also welcome to meet me personnally for further discussion or questions relative to the lectures