Monash Medical Centre – Online Collaborative Teaching

Collaborative Teaching
Please register for the Monash Health Primary Education Network Online Tutorial Sessions with the link below. These hour-long tutorials are based around unpacking your responses to pre-determined SAQs on defined syllabus topics with either a Consultant Intensivist, or a Senior Trainee recently successful at the Primary Examination. Some sessions may include an unseen SAQ written to time during the session. The topic, facilitator, and their contact details are given below.
Topic: Microbiology and immunology
Facilitator: Adrian Pakavakis
Contact Email: adrian.pakavakis@monashhealth.org

SAQs
1. Describe the different types of hypersensitivity reactions including an example of each.
2. Classify antibiotics with respect to their mechanism of action (50% of marks). Outline the mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance (50% of marks). Give specific examples of each.
3. Classify bacteria according to the Gram stain system and the shape of the bacteria, and give two examples for each classification (40% of marks). Outline the different mechanisms of bacterial antibiotic resistance and an antibiotic for which that mechanism may apply (60% of marks).
4. Compare the pharmacology of fluconazole and amphotericin
5. Describe the immunology and drug treatment of anaphylaxis.