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Global Health Program
About the Program
About the Program
Clinical Training Course In
Tropical Medicine And Travelers’ Health
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| Date: |
June 15, 2010 – August 6, 2010
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| Sponsored by: |
The WVU School Of Medicine Office Of Continuing Medical Education
The Global Health Program
and the
Department Of Microbiology
Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center Of West Virginia University
Morgantown, West Virginia |
Course Coordinators
Melanie A. Fisher,
M.D., M.Sc. |
Professor of Medicine
Director, Global Health Program
Director, "Clinical Tropical Medicine and Parasitology Course"
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Gregory Juckett,
M.D., F.A.A.F.P., M.P.H., D.T.M.&H. |
Professor of Family Medicine
Coordinator, Clinical Practice in the Tropics and Traveler’s Health Module
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Christopher Martin,
M.D., M.Sc. |
Associate Professor of Community Medicine
Institute of Occupational and Environmental Health
Coordinator, Introduction to International Public Health Module
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Arif Sarwari,
M.D., M.Sc. |
Associate Professor of Medicine
Co-Coordinator, Medical Entomology and Medical Parasitology Module
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Valerie Watson,
M.Sc. |
Lecturer, Department of Microbiology/Immunology
Co-Coordinator, Medical Entomology and Medical Parasitology Module
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Kathryn Moffett ,
M.D. |
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Coordinator, Infectious Diseases Module |
* Accredited by the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
The Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center of West Virginia University, through its Global Health Program, conducts an annual certificate-granting Clinical Training Course in Tropical Medicine and Travelers' Health, accredited by the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH).
Course Accreditation
- The WVU School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
- The WVU Office of CME designates this educational activity for a maximum of 50 AMA PRA Category 1 credits toward the AMA Physician’s Recognition Award.
- This continuing education activity has been provided by the WVU School of Nursing for 50 contact hours. The WVU School of Nursing is an approved provider of continuing education by the State of West Virginia Board of Examiners for Registered Professional Nurses, Legislative Rule #19CSR11-4 under provider number WV-1996-0120RN.
- The American College of Emergency Physicians has approved this educational activity for 50 hours of ACEP Category I credit.
- This educational activity has been reviewed and is acceptable for up to 150 credit hours by the American Academy of Family Physicians.
- Each participant should claim only those credits that he/she actually spent in the activity.
Objectives
Following this conference, participants should be able to:
- Identify major global issues in tropical public health.
- Discuss clinical tropical diseases frequently encountered in the developing world
Diagnose and treat these diseases
- Implement field-based preventive and control measures for major communicable/ infectious diseases.
- Prepare individuals for international travel and travel-related illnesses.
Description
The course will be open to family medicine practitioners, general medicine internists, internal medicine subspecialists, pediatricians, obstetricians/gynecologists, anesthesiologists, pathologists, surgeons, dentists, nurses, public health professionals, physician assistants, and to anyone interested in making a career change. As of November, 1996, it is a pre-requisite for the annual ASTMH certification exam. The course consists of four (4) major components, with a content of approximately 300.5 hours of didactic contact time as follows:
- Didactic lectures, seminars, and small-group discussions in infectious diseases and tropical medicine, and tropical public health [208 hours];
- Laboratory demonstrations and practicums in microbiology (e.g. bacteriology, parasitology, mycology, mycobacteriology, virology), hematology, serology, dermatology, surgery, radiology, primary health care techniques, and computers [40 hours];
- Flexible, supervised, educational training modules in: International travel medicine; computer modeling in epidemiologic field methods (eg. EPI INFO, biostatistics, etc.) and geographic information systems [GIS]; and infectious diseases and parasitology case studies (both slide- and video-based) [43.5 hours].
- Self Instruction Modules [9 hours]. Health Sciences Center and University facilities to be utilized will include the University Health Service (UHS) Travel Medicine Clinic, and the new Learning Center.
- The WVU Global Health Program can assist participants in arranging clinical field experiences in tropical medicine for those who have not worked overseas previously. WVU has affiliations with the following international institutions: The University of Guanajuato in Leon, Mexico; San Lucas Toliman Mission, Guatemala; Baptist Medical Center, Nalerigu, Ghana; and Honduras through University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and Shoulder to Shoulder, Inc.
The course focuses on the imparting of essential skills and competencies in clinical tropical medicine, laboratory skills in a low-technology setting, epidemiology and disease control, and travelers' health. The didactic portion of the ASTMH course is conducted by both full-time and clinical faculty at WVU, and by visiting faculty from several American and foreign schools of medicine and public health. The course runs for 8 weeks during the summer months each year. Lecturers and demonstrators have had significant overseas experiences in clinical tropical medicine and/or tropical public health, and/or are nationally or internationally recognized in their field of expertise. For the overseas field experiences, all participants are fully supervised by either academic faculty from WVU, University of Guanajuato, San Lucas Mission, Centro de Obras Sociales, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, or by medical missionaries recruited as voluntary field instructors. Up to 35 participants can be accommodated per module in the lecture course component.
Housing
On-campus and off-campus housing facilities are available to course participants with easy access to the Health Sciences Center, Morgantown stores, restaurants, and other facilities via walking, via the Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) connecting WVU and downtown, and via municipal bus lines. A listing of these on-campus and off-campus dormitories and apartment complexes will be provided. Housing accommodations will be the responsibility of the participant.
Additional Information
For more information on the course, contact Nancy Sanders at (304) 293-5916, fax (304) 293-2209, or e-mail nsanders@hsc.wvu.edu.
Important: If you are unable to attend the course after you have registered, you must notify us in writing six weeks prior to the start of the course to receive a refund. A $75.00 fee will be charged for all canceled registrations. We reserve the right to cancel individual sessions or the entire course. In the event of a course cancellation, a full tuition refund will be made.
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