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  OFFICE MEMO         Gorgas Expert Course                  Date:  1/20/98

The Gorgas Expert Course
January 18-29, 1999
2 weeks of bedside teaching on a 36-bed tropical disease unit

Sponsored by the Gorgas Memorial Institute and given in Lima, Peru at the
Tropical Medicine Institute (IMT), Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, the
aim is 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.  Teaching 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) One formal lecture/day; 6) 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 available.  No financial aid available.  Course
Directors: Dr. Eduardo Gotuzzo (IMT) <[log in to unmask]>, Dr. David O. Freedman,
(UAB).


For a full information package:

Mail:
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/expert.html
Full curriculum, photos of facilities, faculty CVÕs, and logistical details
available at this site.