tdr> 2001 Gorgas Courses
Jeffrey Shaw
jshaw at tba.com.br
Tue Mar 7 09:49:49 BRT 2000
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>Learn Tropical Medicine in the Tropics
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>1) The Gorgas Course in Clinical Tropical Medicine
>Annual 9 week Diploma course next available January 29-March 30, 2001.
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>Sponsored by the Gorgas Memorial Institute and given in Lima, Peru at
>the Tropical Medicine Institute, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
>this unique tropical medicine training initiative combines an
>international faculty (North America, Peru, Africa) with didactic and
>formal bedside teaching right in the tropics. 380 contact hours (in
>English)-160 formal lecture hours, plus diagnostic laboratory, daily
>ward rounds on a 36-bed tropical disease unit or daily out-patient
>clinic, and case conferences. Two 4-day teaching trips to field clinics
>in the Andes and Amazon. On-site Education Resource Facility with
>internet wired PC's, complete collection of reference texts, teaching
>slides, WHO/PAHO videos. Targetted to physicians, nurses, public health
>professionals interested in tropical medicine and emerging pathogens.
>CME and up to 9 Graduate Credit hours available; accredited by the
>American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Limited number of
>full scholarships available to current residents of the developing
>world.
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>2) The Gorgas Expert Course
>Next available January 15-26, 2001
>2 weeks of bedside clinical experience on a 36-bed tropical disease unit
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>Sponsored by the Gorgas Memorial Institute and given in Lima, Peru at
>the Tropical Medicine Institute (IMT), Universidad Peruana Cayetano
>Heredia. The aims are: 1) to provide clinicians experienced in
>tropical medicine intensive hands-on exposure to large numbers of
>patients in a short period of time in order to maintain clinical skills;
>and 2) to facilitate high level exchange of clinical accumen by
>assembling experienced clinicians together on a busy tropical disease
>unit in an endemic area. Strict admission criteria for participants.
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>Educational Format (in English): 1) Monday-Friday of 2 consecutive
>weeks; 2) 5 participants & 1 senior sub-specialty trained faculty per
>clinical group; 3) 3 hours/day seeing inpatients and 3 hours/day seeing
>outpatients; 4) Case conference/CPC every day; 5) Parasitology
>laboratory review sessions; 6) One formal lecture/day; 7) Weekend
>excursion to Andean villages endemic for bartonellosis and
>leishmaniasis. Peru has an unusually wide spectrum of tropical diseases
>(full listing in the registration package) and the IMT is the major
>tropical disease referral center for Peru. The patients seen by Gorgas
>physicians have access to advanced radiology and diagnostic
>laboratories, so that diagnoses are in most cases confirmed and not
>presumptive. 80 CME hours. No financial aid available. Course
>Directors: Dr. Eduardo Gotuzzo (IMT) <egh at upch.edu.pe>, Dr. David O.
>Freedman, (Gorgas/UAB).
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>For a full information package:
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>Mail:
>David O. Freedman, MD
>The Gorgas Memorial Institute
>University of Alabama at Birmingham,
>Birmingham, Alabama 35294 2170
>USA
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>Telephone: 800-UAB-MIST (US) or 205 934 2687 (from overseas).
>Fax: 205 933 5671
>E-mail: info at gorgas.org
>World Wide Web: http://www.gorgas.org
>Full curriculum, photos of facilities, faculty CV's, and logistical
>details available at this site.
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