Certificate of Knowledge Review Courses
Travel Medicine Review and Update
This course provides a review of the Body of Knowledge for the Practice of Travel Medicine as well as updates on recent advances in Travel Medicine.
Using a combination of lectures, question and answer sessions and mock tests, the expert faculty will present a curriculum covering topics relevant to physicians, nurses and other health care professionals who provide medical care and advice to travelers, expatriates and migrants.
The next review course will be held in early 2011, information will be posted as available.
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Course Description
The Travel Medicine Review and Update course offered by the International Society of Travel Medicine is designed to review the Body of Knowledge for the Practice of Travel Medicine and to highlight recent developments in Travel Medicine. The curriculum will cover topics relevant to physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals who provide medical care and advice to travelers, expatriates, and migrants.
The expert faculty will present topics including epidemiology, immunizations, enteric infections, travelers' diarrhea, malaria and other vector-borne disease, environmental exposures, travel clinic management issues, and evaluation of illness in returning travelers. The care of special groups such as pregnant women, pediatric travelers, immigrants, VFR travelers, diabetics, and immunocompromised hosts will be discussed. Recent developments and advances in travelers' diarrhea, immunizations, malaria medications, and emerging infectious diseases will be highlighted.
Participants will have ample opportunity to interact with the faculty through question and answer sessions and informal discussions.
Course Objectives
This course provides a review of the Body of Knowledge for the Practice of Travel Medicine as well as updates on recent advances in Travel Medicine. At the conclusion of the course, participants should be able to:
- Describe the current epidemiology of common health risks affecting travelers
- Choose which travelers should receive vaccines relevant for travel
- Discuss the prevention and self-treatment of common travel-related illnesses such as travelers' diarrhea
- Identify current malaria epidemiology and discuss chemoprophylaxis regimens
- Advise travelers on the prevention of disease, including being able to advise pregnant women, pediatric travelers, immigrants, VFR travelers, diabetics, and immunocompromised hosts
- Recognize illness in travelers returning from overseas travel
Who Should Attend
Health care professionals interested in Travel Medicine who require a thorough review and update of Travel Medicine to enhance their knowledge, and health care professionals preparing to take the Certificate of Knowledge in Travelers' Health Examination (CTH® Program):
- Travel Medicine Practitioners
- Primary Care Physicians
- Family Physicians
- Infectious Disease Specialists
- Occupational Health Specialists
- Specialists with an Interest in Travel Medicine
- Mid-level practitioners
- Nurses
- Pharmaceutical Specialists