Learn Tropical Medicine in the Tropics

1)  The Gorgas Course in Clinical Tropical Medicine
Annual 9 week Diploma course next available January 29-March 30, 2001.

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

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.

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) <[log in to unmask]>, Dr. David O. Freedman, (Gorgas/UAB).

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://www.gorgas.org
Full curriculum, photos of facilities, faculty CV’s, and logistical details available at this site.