A comprehensive overview of clinical travel medicine from the clinical management of imported diseases and pre-travel assessment to the multidisciplinary approach to migrants and refugees in the European context.
- Dates
- 4 November 2024 - 4 April 2025
- Tuition
- 750 EUR
- Schedule
- Part time
- Mode
- Online - asynchronous with some live online sessions
- Language
- English
Pre-registration for this course is CLOSED.
Travel Medicine and Health in Mobile Populations is aimed at clinicians seeking advanced studies in travel medicine and health in mobile populations. The course complements the training of medical doctors increasingly confronted with the diagnosis and management of neglected, tropical, and vector-borne diseases.
Participants who successfully complete the course requirements will receive a certificate from ISGlobal.
Course dates: 4 November 2024 - 4 April 2025
Tuition: 750 EUR
The course is divided into three modules, designed to fit the schedule of professional students. These modules can also be taken as independent courses:
1. Pre-travel Medicine and Consultation / Atención en la Consulta Previaje (offered in English and in Spanish)
Course dates: 4 - 29 November 2024
Tuition: 200 EUR
2. Migrant Health
Course dates: 8 January - 5 February 2025
Tuition: 200 EUR
3. Management of Travel-Related Diseases
Course dates: 17 February - 4 April 2025
Tuition: 350 EUR
Coursework and activities can be completed in a way that adapts to the participants’ schedules. During the course, participants will be invited to take part in live online webinars with clinicians and researchers for an in-depth discussion of the diagnosis and management of diseases in the context of travel medicine and health in mobile populations. The sessions will be recorded and made available to those who cannot attend the live session.
Learning Objectives
- Perform a full risk assessment prior to travel
- Perform individualized screening of imported infections in high-risk populations
- Implement the diagnosis and management recommendations for the main clinical presentations of returning travelers, migrants, and refugees
Course Director
Dr Jose Muñoz is a medical doctor specialized in internal medicine and infectious diseases. Having worked as a physician and researcher in Ivory Coast and Mozambique, he is now employed at the Hospital Clinic-Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal). His work here focuses on clinical and epidemiological research of tropical imported diseases among travelers and immigrants and neglected tropical diseases, in particular Chagas disease and helminthiases.
Dr Muñoz has taught in the Master of International Health at the University of Barcelona since 2005 and he is currently a lecturer in the Master of Global Health of ISGlobal-University of Barcelona. He also teaches several courses related to imported diseases. He is a board member of Federation of European Societies of Tropical Medicine and International Health (FESTMIH).
Faculty Coordinators
Dr Daniel Camprubí Ferrer is an Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases specialist working in the International Health Department of Hospital Clínic of Barcelona since 2017.
As a medical research fellow from ISGlobal, his primary research interest focuses on tropical imported diseases among travelers.
Dr Natalia Rodríguez Valero is an Internal Medicine specialist working in Travel Medicine since 2015 in the Department International Health and Tropical Diseases (Hospital Clinic Barcelona) after her specialization in Tropical Medicine & International Health in London in 2014 and several international stages.
She performs her research as a fellow in ISGlobal. Her main current research fields are emerging diseases and new technologies in Travel Medicine.
Module 1: Pre-Travel Medicine & Consultation / Atención en la Consulta Previaje
- Initial risk assessment in pre-travel consultation
- Traveler's immunization
- Yellow fever vaccine
- Malaria counselling
- Traveler's diarrhea and mountain sickness
- Environmental hazards & other special considerations
- Popular itineraries
- Practical case scenarios
Module 2: Migrant Health
- Introduction and initial approach to migrant and refugee health
- Chronic infections in migrant population (I): helminth infections
- Chronic infections in migrant population (II): Chagas disease
- Chronic infections in migrant population (III): HIV and Tuberculosis
- Non-communicable diseases in migrants and refugees
- Screening in migrants and refugees
Module 3: Management of Travel-Related Diseases
- What should be considered in the initial evaluation of returning travelers and migrants?
- Fever in the returning travelers and migrants
- Management of imported malaria
- Bacterial fever in the returning travelers: DRI and enteric fever
- Management of traveler's diarrhea
- Imported arboviral infections and autochthonous transmission
- Imported skin lesions
- Management of imported eosinophilia
- Imported pulmonary mycoses
- Imported neurological diseases
- Management of imported liver parasites
- Surprising diagnosis in tropical medicine
Entry Requirements
Candidates for Travel Medicine and Health in Mobile Populations must:
- Have a medical (MBBS, MBChB, MBBCh, BMBS, MD or equivalent). Candidates who are health professionals with different profiles will be considered based on their level of knowledge and experience.
- Be currently working (or have previous work experience) in a clinical setting;
- Have an advanced level of English sufficient to postgraduate level coursework.
Application
To apply for the course, candidates should submit the course pre-enrolment form, indicating the correct course and attaching a C.V. and a brief (one page or less) letter of motivation.
