Subject: Time: 6:21 AM 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.