Aims & Objectives

The main objectives are to make practitioners aware of:

• The role of practitioners in protecting the health of the traveller
• Major risks associated with travel and the skills involved in communicating these risks
• Appropriate methods for reducing and managing travel associated illness and hazards
• Communication skills to enhance their abilities as health educators
• The role of information technology in travel medicine

The course will cover a range of topics pertinent to the everyday practice of travel medicine, including:

• Principles of travel medicine
• Accessing travel health information
• Consultation and communication skills
• The epidemiology of travel
• Fitness to travel and repatriation
• Medico-legal issues
• Preparing the long term traveller
• Vaccines in practice
• Vector-borne disease; malaria, dengue, Zika virus, Yellow Fever
• Rabies and other infections from animal bites
• Haematological problems and travel
• Vulnerable travellers; children, pregnant/breast feeding, immunosuppressed, multiple co-morbidities
• Travel-related dermatology
• Sexual health and travel
• Food & waterborne disease
• Mass gatherings, Migrant health and VFR
• Bites, stings, envenomation and marine poisoning
• Altitude and diving medicine
• Fever in the returning traveller