TravelMed Forum
TravelMed Forum: What You Need To Know
The TravelMed Forum, the official ISTM listserv, allows ISTM members to discuss and share information on relevant travel medicine topics and questions.
To access this exclusive benefit, members must opt-in to receive updates and participate in discussions. Due to international privacy regulations, ISTM cannot enroll members automatically and must have members opt-in directly.
To ensure you’re getting email notifications about new posts, follow these steps:
- Log in to the ISTM Member Portal. Once logged in, select “TravelMed Forum” or click “Community” and select the TravelMed Forum link from the drop down menu.
- Scroll to the bottom of the page with the latest TravelMed Forum postings and select “Subscribe to This Forum” to receive email notifications for posts.
Please note: Each new post to the TravelMed Forum generates an email notification. To read the post, you have to click the link in the email and view it while logged into the Member Portal.
TravelMed Forum Best Practices
📌 To start a new discussion thread, click “Create New Topic” when logged in to the Member Portal. State the topic of your question or comment concisely and in the subject line. This will help members respond more appropriately to your posting and make it easier to search the discussions by subject.
📌 When creating a post, include your:
- First name
- Surname
- Professional affiliation(s)
- Country of practice (if not evident from the affiliation line) in the signature block of the posting
📌 Email signatures that include phone numbers and web addresses are perfectly fine to include — as long as they are relevant to travel medicine and not related to a completely distinct personal business.
📌 Search the archives for recent discussions regarding your posting before sending your query. Often a topic has already been discussed.
📌 Include only the relevant portions of the original message in your reply. Delete any header information, and write your reply before the original posting.
Posting Guidelines
Ensure your posts and replies are relevant and focused on professional topics.
✅DO post contributions adhering to the following:
- Discuss pre-travel and post-travel medical cases or general travel health issues.
- Share current and significant information from publications, websites, or other credible sources.
- Announce travel medicine conferences, workshops, and short courses.
- Recommend books, websites, publications, products, or services, and disclose any conflicts of interest is appropriate.
- Request information about Travel Medicine providers in locations not listed in the ISTM Global Clinic Directory.
- These requests should start with “Clinic Needed.” Responses to such postings should be sent to the questioner’s e-mail address only.
❌ To maintain a respectful and professional environment, please DO NOT do the following in your posts:
- Post administrative requests like “remove me from the list”; adjust your settings via the ISTM website or contact [email protected] for assistance.
- Write about books, websites, publications, products, or services in which you’re involved or have a financial interest, without disclosing any conflicts of interest when making recommendations.
- Discuss products carelessly; all posts are public and subject to libel, slander, and antitrust laws.
- Include slogans, taglines, quotes, or political or religious statements in your posts.
- Post defamatory, abusive, profane, threatening, offensive, or illegal content.
- Challenge or attack others; discussions should encourage knowledge-sharing, not conflict.
- Send personal messages such as “thanks for the information” or “me too” to the entire list; send these directly to the individual instead.
Additional Considerations
📌 ISTM and other TravelMed Forum participants have the right to reproduce postings.
📌 If your post is lengthy, warn recipients in the subject line or at the beginning of the message, by including “Long Message.”
📌 To maintain a respectful and productive environment, ISTM may suspend posting privileges for members who violate these rules. Members posting irrelevant content or using insulting language will receive a warning and face suspension for further infractions.
📌 If you have questions about the TravelMed Forum, please contact [email protected]. The TravelMed Forum is regularly monitored by the ISTM Professional Team for adherence to the rules.