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Specialist Certificate in Travel Medicine (SC-TRAVMED)
Specialist CertificateYear: 2017 Delivered: On Campus (Parkville)
About this course
Coordinator
Dr. Tim Moore
Contact
School of Melbourne Custom Programs
Currently enrolled
- General information: http://www.commercial.unimelb.edu.au/travelmedicine/
- Email: TL-DTMH@unimelb.edu.au
Future students:
- General information: http://www.commercial.unimelb.edu.au/travelmedicine/
- Email: TL-DTMH@unimelb.edu.au
Overview
Award title | Specialist Certificate in Travel Medicine |
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Year & campus | 2017 — Parkville |
Fees information | Subject EFTSL, level, discipline and census date |
Study level & type | Graduate Coursework |
AQF level | Non-AQF |
Credit points | 25 credit points |
Duration | 6 months part-time |
Please note that the course is currently under review. For more information please contact the School of Melbourne Custom Progarms.
Health practitioners caring for new arrivals from endemic areas of tropical disease, or for travellers, require deep working knowledge of infectious and other disease to which exposure is common in the tropics. Furthermore, travel itself presents specific hazards and considerations for health.
This Specialist Certificate course encompasses a range of presentations and interactive activities which will cover:
- the epidemiology of tropical disease,
- prevention, diagnosis and management of tropical disease,
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- vector-borne diseases
- food and water borne disease, parasitic disease
- dysentery and protozoal disease
- (for example, malaria, dengue, leishmaniasis, filiariasis, schistosomiasis, tetanus, tuberculosis, acute respiratory disease and sexually transmitted infections/HIV)
- parasitology, entomology and helminthology,
- pre-travel consultation and post-travel triage, determination of fitness to travel,
- vaccination, prophylactic medication and other strategies of disease prevention (travellers’ information and databases),
- accidents and emergency repatriation, and
- high altitude sickness, pregnancy (and other pre-existing health conditions) and travel.
This course will be taught on campus in block mode (10 days during a 2-week period).
Links to further information
Last updated: 18 December 2020