The medical microbiology teaching path

Abstract

knowledge is a real torture! The emphasis in taxonomical aspects, molecular structures, biochemical reactions, detailed life-cycles for every bug, etc., far away from the role that microorganisms plays in the disease production and how to understand it to then know how to suspect, how to perform a diagnostic (microbiological demonstration) and at last, how to treat it and prevent it. I was so lucky, because my professors understood that a medicine student, a future doctor, needs specialized concepts in “medical” microbiology, not the huge background of knowledge that involve microbiological sciences, so, at my Medicine School (Jose Maria Vargas Med School, Medicine Faculty, Universidad Central de Venezuela), a new way to teach microbiology began, a path to follow the pathogenicity of the microorganism and its interactions with the human host (susceptible) to produce a specific disease, in different organs and systems, from hands of one great human being and professor, Dr. Felix Oswaldo Carmona Guillod, and the rest of the teaching group of medical microbiologist specialist that he led and trained in this successful path of bringing high quality scientific complex knowledge in a pleasant and useful way to the students.