Syllabus - Travel Medicine and Tropical Medicine

Time schedule
 
Syllabus

  • Introduction to travel medicine, survey of health risks, health competence for international travel, examination before and after travel (doc. Marešová)
    Travelling of children, pregnant women and people with chronic diseases (doc. Marešová)
     
  • Alimentary infections - traveller´s diarrhoea, enteric fever, viral hepatitis A and E (dr. Ambrožová)
    Slides of tropical infectious diseases (dr. Stejskal)
     
  • Blood borne diseases (viral hepatitis B, HIV and other STD, Ebola and Lassa fever)
    The most important tropical infections caused due to parasites including malaria and its chemoprophylaxis
    Risk of snake bite, injury caused by venomous animals, first aid and treatment
     
  • Diferential diagnosis of fever after return from the tropics including schistosomosis, leishmaniosis, dengue fever and other arboviral infections
    Vaccination on the way to foreign countries
    Current epidemiological situation in occurence of diseases in the world, risk of bringing infectious diseases into Czech republic
    International surveillance (characterization of yellow fever, plague, leprosy)
     
    Test

Time schedule:

4. 2. 2013
Dpt. of Inf. Dis.
Hospital Bulovka
7th floor
 		 Alimentary infections excepting parasitic infections (traveller´s diarrhea, typhoid fever, paratyphoid fever, viral heptitis A and E) 13,30 - 15,00
(dr. Ambrožová)
International surveillance (characteristic of yellow fever, plague and leprosy)
 		 15,00 - 16,00
(dr. Trojánek)
 
5. 2. 2013
Dpt. of Inf. Dis.
Hospital Bulovka
7th floor
 		 Infections transmitted by blood and secretions (viral hepatitis B, C, HIV and other STD)
Risk of snake bite and injury caused by poisonous animals, a first aid treatment
 		 15,00 - 17,00
(doc. Machala)
 
6. 2. 2013
Dpt. of Inf. Dis.
Hospital Bulovka
7th floor
 		 Travel medicine problems
Summary of health hazzards
International travel competence
Examination before and after travel
Travelling of children, pregnant women, persons with chronic diseases and old persons		 14,00 - 16,30
(doc. Marešová)
Actual epidemiological situation in the world. Risk of infectious diseases, risk of importation of anusual diseases to the Czech Republic.
 		 16,30 - 17,30
(dr. Stejskal)
 
7. 2. 2013
Dpt. of Inf. Dis.
Hospital Bulovka
7th floor
 		 The most important parasitic infections of the tropics and subtropics, malaria including chemoprophylaxis.
Differential diagnosis of fever from tropics including schistosomiasis, leishmaniasis, dengue fever, haemorrhagic fever Lassa and Ebola and other arboviral infections. Important viral and bacterial tropical diseases
 		 13,30 - 17,00
 
8. 2. 2013
Dpt. of Tropical Medicine
Studničkova 7
Prague 2		 Tropical skin infections
Test
 		 13,30 - 16,30
(dr. Stejskal)

 
Submitted by (Study Department), 1. 2. 2013.