GENA714 Travel Medicine 2: Applied Concepts

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.

Paper title	Travel Medicine 2: Applied Concepts
Paper code	GENA714
Subject	General Practice
EFTS	0.2500
Points	30 points
Teaching period	Second Semester
Domestic Tuition Fees (NZD)	$2,857.50
International Tuition Fees (NZD)	$10,363.00

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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.

Contact

travel.medicine@otago.ac.nz

More information link

View further information on Postgraduate Study in Primary Health Care

Teaching staff

Convenor: Dr Jenny Visser

Paper Structure

Core paper for the Postgraduate Cerfiticate 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

Three days of compulsory residential teaching in Wellington: Thursday 20 - Saturday 22 August. Other teaching done via Blackboard and online videoconferencing.

Study Skills support is provided through automatic enrolment in the no-charge Study Skills Blackboard GENA700, which contains resources and technology support.

Textbooks

All resources available either 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 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

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