ISTM News
ISTM Course 2008
The ISTM is pleased to offer Travel Medicine Review and Update 2008. The course will be held in Dallas/Ft. Worth, Texas, USA, March 14-16, 2008. This course provides a review of the Body of Knowledge for the Practice of Travel Medicine and highlights recent developments in Travel Medicine. The course can serve as a foundation to candidates beginning to prepare for the ISTM Certificate in Travel Health (CTH) Examination to be given in Budapest in May 2009. 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. Please visit www.istm.org for course schedule, faculty, CME and CE accreditation, and registration.
Professional Educational Committee (PEC)
The PEC is working on the following projects:
> Marc Shaw is spearheading a monograph of How to Start a Travel Clinic, which we hope to have available online soon.
Lin Chen is putting together another Travel Medicine Course, this one in Dallas/Ft. Worth. (See above.) Last year's course was so popular that participants had to be turned away.
> David Hill has updated the original Travel Medicine slide set - maps and facts. This is now available free to 2008 paid members via a download on the ISTM website.
> Michele Barry has finished a slide set on Travel during Pregnancy and one on Travel with Children. These will soon be available to membership
> Joan Ingram is working on a slide set on Altitude and Travel.
> Nancy Piper Jenks and Lin Chen continue to submit pertinent questions to experts to post on our interactive Expert Case Opinion. The last one, responded to by Elizabeth Barnett, deals with the nuances of yellow fever vaccination. The response is a well-referenced thoughtful opinion. See the PEC section on the ISTM website. Old cases are archived on the website for members. Mary-Lou Scully will be replacing Lin as Nancy's co-editor. This site has been extremely popular with our email listserve.
The PEC committee had recommended that all slide sets be offered free to members with a charge to nonmembers. This recommendation was accepted by the Executive Board in Vancouver.
Respectfully submitted
by Michele Barry,
Chairperson PEC
