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  OFFICE MEMO         Gorgas Course in Tropical Medicine    Date:  12/20/96

Course Announcement

The Gorgas Course in Clinical Tropical Medicine
Learn Tropical Medicine in the Tropics!

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 (US,
Canada, Peru) with didactic and formal bedside teaching right in the tropics.
 Annual intensive 9 week Diploma course next available February 2-April 4
1998.  360 contact hours (in English)-160 formal lecture hours, plus daily
ward rounds on a 36-bed tropical disease unit or daily out-patient clinic,
diagnostic laboratory, and case conferences.  Two 4-day teaching trips to
field clinics in the Andes and Amazon.  Education Resource Facility with
internet wired PCÕs, 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.  Some full scholarships
available to residents of the developing world.  Note that the February/March
1997 course was completely enrolled by July 1996.


For a full information package:

Mail:
David O. Freedman, MD
The Gorgas Memorial Institute
University of Alabama at Birmingham,
Birmingham, Alabama 35294 2170
USA.

Telephone:  800-UAB-MIST (US) or 205 934 2687 (from overseas).
Fax: 205 933 5671
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
World Wide Web: http://medinfo.dom.uab.edu/Gorgas/Course.html (URL is
case-sensitive).  Full curriculum, photos of facilities, faculty CVÕs, and
logistical details available at this site.