| Title: |
Travellers Health (posponed from 2021 to 22) |
| Keywords: |
Tropical medicine
Treatment
Disease prevention & control
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| Country: |
Switzerland
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| Institution: |
Switzerland - Swiss Tropical & Public Health Institute, Basel
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| Course coordinator: |
Dr. Andreas Neumayr
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| Date start: |
2022-01-17 |
| Date end: |
2022-01-21 |
| About duration and dates: |
one week |
| Classification: |
advanced optional
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| Mode of delivery: |
Face to face
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Course location:
Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel |
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| ECTS credit points: |
1.5 ECTS credits
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SIT:
30 hours lectures, 15 hours self-directed learning total 45 hours student investment time. |
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| Language: |
English
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Description:
At the end of this module participants should be able
• to critically appraise the essential aspects of advice for travellers going abroad, i.e. general issues (transport-related disorders, climatic and hygiene issues, behavioural matters, insurance and repatriation possibilities), animal hazards, sexually transmitted diseases, malaria and dengue prevention, and vaccinations.
• to provide special advice for particular risk groups, i.e. children, pregnant women, long-term expatriates, immune-compromised and chronically ill travellers, and the elderly.
• to communicate the relevant self-treatment issues during travel with regard to diarrhoeal and respiratory tract disorders, skin problems and fever.
• to triage the most commonly observed disorders among returning travellers, i.e. geographically targeted differential diagnosis of fever, diarrhoeal diseases, skin lesions and peripheral blood |
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Assessment Procedures:
A multiple choice (MC), open-book examination based on the contents of all interventions will take place at the end of the course on all topics of the course (2 hours exam)
If a student should fail any of the components they are allowed to resit the assessment once. |
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Content:
Pre-travel advice: goals of travel medicine, risk analysis, vaccinations, vector borne diseases prophylaxis, special risk groups, efforts to harmonize and standardize travel medicine,
information tools, communication information.
Health problems abroad: risk factors and common health problems during travel and their management
The returning traveller: differential diagnosis of travel-related diseases (fever, diarrhoea, skin disorders, eosinophilia) and their diagnostic and therapeutic approach. |
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Methods:
Lectures, discussions, individual reading |
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Prerequisites:
English requirements: TOEFL paper 550 / computer 213 / internet 79 – 80 or IELTS 6.0 or native speaker or completed higher education in English (with written proof) |
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Attendance:
Maximum number of students: 35 |
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Selection:
First come first serve |
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Fees:
CHF 1200, tropEd CHF 1000 |
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Major changes since initial accreditation:
In general no major changes over the last years, however fine tuning according the feedback of participants and changes in travellers health priorities did take place. |
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Student evaluation:
The participants evaluation is very positive on content and educational approach. Details about participant satisfaction are available in the course secretariat. |
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Lessons learned:
Concise teaching including practical aspects of advice and skills are essential for the participants |
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tropEd accreditation:
Accredited in Berlin 1998. Re-accredited in March 2005 and October 2011. Half year extension has been accepted in Amsterdam 2016. Re-accredited in June 2017. This accreditation is valid until June 2022. |
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| Email Address: |
courses@swisstph.ch |
| Date Of Record Creation: |
2012-01-12 10:00:54 (W3C-DTF) |
| Date Of Record Release: |
2012-01-12 16:10:16 (W3C-DTF) |
| Date Record Checked: |
2017-07-06 (W3C-DTF) |
| Date Last Modified: |
2020-09-15 15:01:37 (W3C-DTF) |
