Cell and Tissue Biology

Module code: MHT5007-B

Module Aims

The aim of this linked module is to make students familiar with basic cell and tissue biology which are directly related to engineers.

Students will learn both biology and engineering aspects of cells and the main aim is to make students understand the link between cell biology and other applications in medical engineering. On the other hand, because invasive medical devices are often associated with infection, it is also important that medical engineering and clinical technology students have a good understanding of other microorganisms such as bacteria, viruses, parasites and etc. Infection control is the discipline concerned with preventing HAI, a practical sub-discipline of epidemiology. It is an essential, though often under recognized and under supported, part of the infrastructure of health care.

Infection control and hospital epidemiology are akin to public health practice, practiced within the confines of a particular health-care delivery system rather than directed at society as a whole. Infection control addresses factors related to the spread of infections within the healthcare setting (whether patient-to-patient, from patients to staff and from staff to patients, or among-staff), including prevention (via hand hygiene/hand washing, cleaning/disinfection/sterilization, vaccination, surveillance), monitoring/investigation of demonstrated or suspected spread of infection within a particular health-care setting (surveillance and outbreak investigation), and management (interruption of outbreaks).

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