A114 Guide to Travel Medicine
Course summary
This basic foundation course will equip you with essential information on travel-related medicine and enhance competency frameworks to support your practice. The course will combine structured and interactive teaching through lectures, group work and real-life scenarios.
Who should attend?
Qualified professionals such as nurses, doctors or pharmacists who are interested in or newly involved in travel health, risk assessments and vaccinations.
Aims / objectives
- Apply the basic principles of vaccinations;
- Have a better understanding of the importance of travel health and prevention of travel-related illnesses;
- Be confident in the principles and practices of vaccination schedules;
- Have a better insight into the supporting databases and information sources;
- Gain up-to-date meaningful training to:
- – help consolidate NMC and professional competencies;
- – support revalidation purposes.
- Have an understanding of non-vaccine-related illnesses such as insect-borne diseases and travellers’ diarrhoea;
- Be aware of your legal obligations and apply the necessary minimum standards to a health consultation;
- Know the procedures and processes for managing clinical incidents.
Course programme
- Refresher: basic principles of immunisation and immunology
- Vaccination schedules
- Cold chain, storage and handling of vaccines
- Managing adverse advents including clinical incidents
- Vaccine-related illnesses
- Clinical scenarios
- Travel risk assessments
- Legal requirements and professional obligations
- National and international guidelines and resources
- Insect-borne diseases:
- – malaria
- – Zika
- Food and water-borne illnesses
- Clinical scenarios
- Brief insight into a complex traveler
Led by
TBA