Overview
Specific clinical concerns of travellers with special needs and specific clinical contexts, applying the principles from Travel Medicine 1.
This paper builds on the introductory concepts covered in GENA 713. The importance and prevention of non-intentional injury, safety and security issues during travel are explored. Specific clinical contexts to be covered include fitness to fly/aviation medicine, food- and water-borne disease, preventing food- and water-borne disease, preventing insect-borne disease, sexually transmitted infections, travel dermatology and tuberculosis. Management of the returning traveller is also covered. We encourage the participation of all health professionals who may have an interest in travel medicine.
About this paper
| Paper title | Travel Medicine 2: Applied Concepts |
|---|---|
| Subject | General Practice |
| EFTS | 0.25 |
| Points | 30 points |
| Teaching period | Semester 2 (Distance learning) |
| Delivery mode | The Distance Learning offering of this paper is a combination of remote and in-person teaching |
| Domestic Tuition Fees ( NZD ) | $3,486.75 |
| International Tuition Fees | Tuition Fees for international students are elsewhere on this website. |
- Prerequisite
- GENA 713 or GENX 713
- Restriction
- GENX 714, 715
- Limited to
- PGCertTravMed, PGDipTravMed
- Notes
- Includes residential period/s.
- Eligibility
Suitable for health professionals from a range of disciplines.
Enrolments for this paper are limited and it requires departmental permission. View more information about limitations of enrolment.
- Contact
- More information link
- View further information on Postgraduate Study in Primary Health Care
- Teaching staff
Co-convenors: Dr Jenny Visser
Claire Wong- Paper Structure
Core paper for the Postgraduate Certificate in Travel Medicine (PGCertTravMed).
Core paper for the Postgraduate Diploma in Travel Medicine (PGDipTravMed).Material is presented in self-directed learning modules covering the following topics:
- Fitness to fly
- Prevention of food- and water-borne disease
- Prevention of vector-borne disease
- Sexually transmitted infections and travel
- Travel-related dermatology
- Tuberculosis and the traveller
- The Returning traveller
- Injury prevention in travellers
- Teaching Arrangements
This Distance Learning paper is a combination of remote and in-person teaching.
The in-person component is a two-day block course held on-campus in Wellington (dates to be confirmed). The block course may be delivered online via Zoom depending on pandemic restrictions.
Other teaching, including regular evening sessions and one half day session, is delivered via Blackboard and online via Zoom.
Study Skills, technology support and resources are provided to students via a custom built site accessed through Blackboard.
- Textbooks
All readings are available for access, free of charge, via Blackboard or other online resources.
- Graduate Attributes Emphasised
- Interdisciplinary perspective, Communication.
View more information about Otago's graduate attributes.
Please also refer to the Department of Primary Health Care & General Practice Graduate Profile. - Learning Outcomes
Students who successfully complete the paper should:
- Understand the role that trauma and accidents play in international traveller mortality and morbidity
- Have an understanding and core knowledge of aviation physiology and fitness to fly issues
- Have core knowledge of the travel hazards associated with food and water exposure and their prevention and management, including traveller's diarrhoea, enteric fevers and schistosomiasis
- Have core knowledge of the travel hazards associated with insect-borne disease, including the epidemiology and prevention of:
- Malaria
- The arboviruses
- Dengue
- Japanese encephalitis
- Chikungunya
- Yellow fever
- Have core knowledge of the travel hazards associated with blood and body fluid exposure
- Have core knowledge of the management of the returning traveller, including post-travel screening and managing the ill returning traveller
Overview
Specific clinical concerns of travellers with special needs and specific clinical contexts, applying the principles from Travel Medicine 1.
This paper builds on the introductory concepts covered in GENA 713. The importance and prevention of non-intentional injury, safety and security issues during travel are explored. Specific clinical contexts to be covered include fitness to fly/aviation medicine, food- and water-borne disease, preventing food- and water-borne disease, preventing insect-borne disease, blood and body fluid borne infections (including sexually transmitted infections) and travel dermatology. Management of the returning traveller is also covered. We encourage the participation of all health professionals who may have an interest in travel medicine.
About this paper
| Paper title | Travel Medicine 2: Applied Concepts |
|---|---|
| Subject | General Practice |
| EFTS | 0.25 |
| Points | 30 points |
| Teaching period | Semester 2 (Distance learning) |
| Delivery mode | The Distance Learning offering of this paper is a combination of remote and in-person teaching |
| Domestic Tuition Fees | Tuition Fees for 2027 have not yet been set |
| International Tuition Fees | Tuition Fees for international students are elsewhere on this website. |
- Prerequisite
- GENA 713 or GENX 713
- Restriction
- GENX 714, 715
- Limited to
- PGCertTravMed, PGDipTravMed
- Notes
- Includes residential period/s.
- Eligibility
Suitable for health professionals from a range of disciplines.
Enrolments for this paper are limited and it requires departmental permission. View more information about limitations of enrolment.
- Contact
- More information link
- View further information on Postgraduate Study in Primary Health Care
- Teaching staff
Co-conveners:
- Paper Structure
Core paper for the Postgraduate Certificate in Travel Medicine (PGCertTravMed).
Core paper for the Postgraduate Diploma in Travel Medicine (PGDipTravMed).Material is presented in self-directed learning modules covering the following topics:
- Injury and trauma prevention in travellers
- Fitness to fly
- Prevention of food- and water-borne disease
- Prevention of vector-borne and zoonotic disease
- Prevention of blood, body fluid and sexually transmitted infections
- Travel-related dermatology
- The Returning traveller
- Teaching Arrangements
This Distance Learning paper is a combination of remote and in-person teaching. Study skills, module content and other course resources are provided via our web-based learning platform. The platform is also used by students to engage in discussion forums.
The in-person component is a two-day Block Course held on-campus in Wellington in August (dates to be confirmed). In-person attendance at the Block Course is strongly encouraged; however students can join via Zoom if necessary.
The two-day Block Course is supplemented with regular on-line evening sessions and one half day on-line meeting.
Assessment consists of two scenario based written assignments (both academic essays), participation in five discussion forums, submission of five associated tasks and completing five 15-minute online quizzes.
- Textbooks
There is no required textbook for this paper. All resources are available either via the Learning Management System, University of Otago Library or other online resources.
- Graduate Attributes Emphasised
- Global perspective, Interdisciplinary perspective, Communication.
View more information about Otago's graduate attributes. - Learning Outcomes
Students who successfully complete the paper should:
- Understand the role that trauma and accidents play in international traveller mortality and morbidity and how to prevent these in travellers
- Have an understanding and core knowledge of aviation physiology and fitness to fly issues
- Have core knowledge of the travel hazards associated with food and water exposure and their prevention and management, including traveller's diarrhoea, enteric fevers and schistosomiasis
- Have core knowledge of the travel hazards associated with insect-borne disease, including the epidemiology and prevention of:
- Malaria
- The arboviruses including dengue, Zika, chikungunya, Japanese encephalitis and Yellow Fever
- Rickettsial infections
- Have core knowledge of the travel hazards associated with blood and body fluid exposure including sexually transmitted infections
- Have core knowledge of the management of the returning traveller, including post-travel screening and managing the ill returning traveller
- Be able to critically discuss, in written form, the medical literature around these diseases