Subject: Time: 1:37 PM OFFICE MEMO Gorgas Course in Tropical Medicine Date: 4/28/97 Learn Tropical Medicine in the Tropics! The Gorgas Course in Clinical Tropical Medicine Annual 9 week Diploma course next available February 3-April 4 1998. 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. 320 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 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; accredited by the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Limited number of full scholarships available to residents of the developing world. 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, faculty CVÕs, and logistical details available at this site. Note that for the February/March 1997 course, all 28 places were filled by July 1996.