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> > TROPICAL MEDICINE; A CLINICAL AND LABORATORY UPDATE
> > Montreal, McGill University
> > May 20,21,22
> >This is the 9th time this bi-annual course has been offered, once again
bringing together a list of excellent tropical medicine clinicians from
North America, with teaching faculty from the McGill University Centre for
Tropical Disease. The course objective is a review of basic and new concepts
of a range of tropical health subjects. The focus is on the diagnostic and
therapeutic with a background of public health. The practice of clinical
tropical medicine both with and without laboratory resources will be addressed.
> >
> >Subject matter will be:
> >
> Screening of returning travelers JD MacLean McGill U
> Death, dying and detention abroad D MacPherson U MacMaster
> Typhoid, prevention and treatment M Levine U Maryland
> Investigation of tropical fevers D Freedman U Alabama
> Tuberculosis in Travelers D MacPherson U MacMaster
> New drugs for old worms D Freedman U Alabama
> Cholera troubles M Levine U Maryland
> A review of recent epidemics M Libman McGill U
> Clinical vignettes
> Hands-on Laboratory: Helminths E Kokoskin McGill U
> >
> >Risk modification: Vitamin A, Zinc B Ward McGill U
> >Epidemiology of AIDS in the tropics R Bollinger Johns Hopkins
> Understanding the parasite serologies B Serhir McGill U
> >The limits of the O and P E Kokoskin McGill U
> >Drug resistance in malaria K Kain U Toronto
> >The immunocompromised traveller R Bollinger Johns Hopkins
> >African hemorrhagic fevers B Ward McGill U
> >Culturing intestinal bacteria M Libman McGill U
> >Diagnosing and treating malaria K Kain U Toronto
> >Clinical vignettes
> >Hands-on laboratory: Protozoa E Kokoskin McGill U
> >
> >Multiple drug resistance in TB L Poirier U Montreal
> >Chronic diarrhea B Ward McGill U
> >Tropical dermatology JD MacLean McGill U
> >The science of medical map making G Lonergan Public Health
> >Psychologic problems of the uprooted L Kirmayer McGill U
> >The global program in vaccines J Pickering McGill U
> >Travel on a limited vaccine budget D Tessier Hop St Luc
> >Internet resources Y Fortin Hop St Luc
> >Altitude sickness L Green McGill U
> >Clinical vignettes
> Hands-on Laboratory: Blood parasites E Kokoskin McGill U
> > \
> >For further information contact Kelly McCulloch Glover, Postgraduate Board,
> Montreal General Hospital, 1650 Cedar Ave, Montreal, Quebec H3G1A4
> > Telephone-(514)937-6011 (ext. 4173)
> > Fax (514)934-1779
> > E-mail [log in to unmask]
> > Web Site at http://www.mcgill.ca/mgh_pgb