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The Gorgas Course in Clinical Tropical Medicine
Annual 9 week Diploma course
Available January 28-March 29, 2002
Sponsored by the Gorgas Memorial Institute in Lima, Peru at the Tropical Medicine Institute, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia. This training initiative combines an international faculty (North America, Peru, Africa) with didactic and formal bedside teaching right in the tropics. 380 contact hours (in English). 160 formal lecture hours, plus diagnostic laboratory, daily ward rounds on a 36-bed tropical disease unit or daily outpatient clinic, and case conferences. Two 4-day teaching trips to field clinics in the Andes and Amazon. On-site Resource Facility with Internet wired PC's, reference texts, teaching slides, WHO/PAHO videos. Targeted to physicians, nurses, public health professionals interested in tropical medicine and emerging pathogens. ME and up to 9 Graduate Credit hours available; accredited by the ASTHMA. Limited number of full scholarships for residents of the developing world.
David O. Freedman, MD
The Gorges Memorial Institute
U of Alabama (Birmingham)
Birmingham, Alabama 35294 2170 USA
Telephone: 800-UAB-MIST (US) or 205 934 2687 (from overseas).
Fax: 205 934 5600
E-mail: info@gorgas.org
World Wide Web: www.gorgas.org for curriculum, photos of facilities,
faculty CV's, and logistical details.
