A high-performance program that will give you a significant boost in the practice of your profession"

This professional master’s degree offers the student the possibility of updating knowledge using the latest educational technology. It offers a global vision of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, while focusing on the most important and innovative aspects. This program arises as a response to an important need in the field of Infectious Diseases. Today, this need responds, among other things, to the emergence of certain diseases that are unknown or have little practice (zika, chikungunya, hemorrhagic fevers, among others), and with others that have fallen into oblivion or are unknown to less experienced pharmacists such as diphtheria, measles, pertussis (whooping cough), or flaccid paralysis associated with poliovirus vaccines. 

At the therapeutic level, the emergence of resistance (BLEES, MRSA, carbapenem-resistant enterobacteria, etc.), often caused by the unwise and rational use of drugs, creates problems for the clinician when it comes to initial empirical treatment in certain situations. 

On the other hand, parents who refuse vaccines, children from low-income backgrounds, infections in transplant recipients, children with devices, fevers without focus in well-vaccinated children are increasingly common situations that the pharmacist has to deal with.

All this means that, in order to attend to these patients with the maximum guarantee, the pharmacist must continuously keep up to date, even if they are not a specialist, since the percentage of visits or interconsultations related to infection is very high. If we add to this the increasing amount of information provided by parents, sometimes not always contrasted, professional updating becomes essential to be able to provide adequate information according to the current scientific evidence at all times.

With this specialization you will have the opportunity to study a program that brings together the most advanced and in-depth knowledge in the field, where a group of highly regarded professors with extensive international experience provides you with the most complete and up-to-date information on the latest advances and techniques in Pediatric Infectious Diseases.

This professional master’s degree in Pediatric Infectious Diseases will help you keep up to date in order to provide complete and quality care"

This professional master’s degree in Pediatric Infectious Diseases contains the most complete and up-to-date scientific program on the market. Its most notable features are:

• The development of practical cases presented by experts in Pediatric 
• Infectious Diseases
• 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
• Latest development in Pediatric Infectious Diseases
• Practical exercises where the self-assessment process can be carried out to improve learning
• A special emphasis on innovative methodologies in Pediatric Infectious Diseases
• Theoretical lessons, questions to 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

This professional master’s degree is the best investment you can make in the selection of a refresher program for two reasons: in addition to updating your knowledge in Pediatric Infectious Diseases, you will obtain a qualification from TECH Technological University"

It includes, in its teaching staff, expert professionals who bring to this program the experience of their work, in addition to recognized specialists from prestigious reference societies and universities.

The multimedia content, developed with the latest educational technology, will provide the professional with situated and contextual learning, i.e., a simulated environment that will provide an immersive learning experience designed to 
prepare for real-life situations.

The design of this program focuses on Problem-Based Learning, through which the pharmacist must try to solve the different professional practice situations that arise. To do so, the specialist will be assisted by an innovative interactive video system developed by recognized experts in the field of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and with great experience.

Increase your decision-making confidence by updating your knowledge through this professional master’s degree"

Take the opportunity to learn about the latest advances in this field and apply it to your daily practice"

The objective of this professional master’s degree is to accompany and encourage them in a process of professional growth that will allow them to reach another level of performance, with the most interesting and up-to-date knowledge of the moment in a preparation focused intensively on practice.

A complete and efficient update that will propel you to another level of intervention"

General Objective

• Update the knowledge of the pharmacist who cares for children, through the latest advances in the field of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, in order to increase the quality of care and achieve the best outcome for the patient

Specific Objectives

Module 1. Current Overview in Infectious Diseases

• Describe the current epidemiology with the changes that have occurred in the last decade
• Identify the epidemiological situation of bacterial meningitis
• Explain the epidemiology of tuberculosis in our environment and the resistance to treatment
• Describe the microbiome, its relationship to health and disease
• Explain the role of fever associated with infection and antipyretic therapeutics 
• Describe the alterations of the immune system that contribute to vulnerability to infection

Module 2. The Laboratory in the Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases

• Explain the new methods used in blood culture and manage the sample processing technique
• Define the fundamentals, indications, limitations and cost-effectiveness of rapid virus identification methods and their use in daily practice
• Discern on the application of IGRAS
• Analyze the proper interpretation of an antibiogram
• Identify the limitations of serology
• Describe genetic methods for the diagnosis of infection

Module 3. Infection in the Neonatal Period

• Identify risk factors, microorganisms and prevention of infection in neonatology
• Identify congenital infections
• Describe the current situation of vertically transmitted infections 
• Practice the algorithms for action against infection in the neonatal period
• Identify early and late neonatal sepsis
• Address the diagnostic and therapeutic management of the main community-acquired infections in patients older than 30 days

Module 4. Eye, Skin, Soft Tissue and Skeletal System Infections

• Analyze the different complementary explorations to be used cost-effectively in community-acquired infections
• Describe the clinical manifestations of diseases affecting the skin and soft tissues
• Develop a correct strategy in the differential diagnosis of diseases with exanthema

Module 5. ENT and Respiratory Infections

• Identify complications of diseases such as community-acquired pneumonia or pyelonephritis
• Describe the appropriate management of tuberculosis: infection, disease and contact study
• Acquire current knowledge of Mycoplasma pathology

Module 6. Gastrointestinal and Urinary Tract Infections and STDs

• Define the procedure for exploratory and preventive actions for renal or urinary malformations, as well as Vesicoureteral reflux in urinary tract infections 
• Describe the management of severe sepsis and code sepsis

Module 7. Febrile Syndromes and Exanthems 

• Identify the updated diagnostic criteria for viral hepatitis and its current treatment

Module 8. Nosocomial Infections

• Discern the use of antibacterial treatments in surgical pathology
• Differentiate between viral and bacterial respiratory infections by clinical, epidemiological and complementary examinations
• Addressing hospital-acquired infection with outbreak control and the topicality of multidrug-resistant bacteria

Module 9. HIV Infection in Pediatrics and Adolescence

• Diagnose complications of viral diseases
• Develop a strategy to deal with suspected infection(s) with associated primary immunodeficiency
• Describe how to deal with vertically transmitted or adolescent HIV infection Describe the use of antiretroviral drugs, determination of resistance and side effects

Module 10. Systemic, Cardiovascular and Nervous System Infections

• Describe the management of central nervous system infections and the differential diagnosis with autoimmune encephalitis

Module 11. Infections Associated with Social Changes or Deficits

• Develop better skills and working methods related to immunosuppressed patients
• Describe how to deal with immunosuppressed, hemato-oncologic, transplanted, neutropenic, cystic fibrosis, asplenic or major burns patients
• Determine the infectological performance of children from low-income countries, sub-Saharan, refugees, affected by poverty

Take the step to get up to date on the latest developments in Pediatric Infectious Diseases"