Medical Immonology

Immunology is crucial in Medicine now, especially after the COVID-19 Pandemic and the ongoing debates regarding vaccines. So, understanding the immune system can help us fight cancer, combat infectious diseases, come up with new drugs and vaccines, understand transplants and transfusions, and deal with autoimmune diseases, this course should help you understand the link between the cellular and subcellular details of the immune system and the application in the clinical real world. This course is to help you understand the basics of the immune system and how it works in addition to the practical and clinical applications.

You will be able to understand the underlying mechanism of action of different immune cells and the pathology that comes from either immune deficiency or autoimmune diseases. Also, the lab interactions used for common lab testing in clinical practice. Textbook(s):‘Review of Medical Microbiology and Immunology', Author: Levinson, Warren, MD,PhD,13th Edition, Publisher: McGraw Hill Education 2014.

ISBN 978-0-07-181811-1This course is designed for understanding and the MCQs in the the text book are USMLE style exam which can also be useful for other similar license exam. You will do some web searches for further details on topics of interest like on Pub-Med or the CDC official website.