POST GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN TROPICAL MEDICINE & HEALTH

This comprehensive module equips healthcare professionals with the advanced skills and knowledge essential for the assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of tropical diseases prevalent in resource-limited settings. Gain a deep understanding of:

Core Concepts: Epidemiology, transmission, and clinical manifestations of tropical infectious diseases. Evidence-Based

Interventions: Current treatment guidelines and preventive strategies tailored for tropical environments.

Parasitology & Vector Biology: In-depth exploration of the life cycles, biology, and control of parasites and their vectors.

Classroom time: 3 days in Pretty Bay, Malta

The module builds on the topics taught during TMH701, providing clinical laboratory skills that are needed for the laboratory diagnosis of tropical medicine and infectious diseases.

Delegates will learn to use desktop microscopes, smartphone microscopes and with other laboratory diagnostic capabilities to identify infectious agents that lead to the assessment and treatment of the infectious casualty found in tropical climates.

Classroom time: 3 days in Pretty Bay, Malta

This module builds on previous knowledge and focuses on case management of diseases in resource-limited and remote environments. Focus is placed on discussions, group exercises, and instructor-led case studies that use knowledge of tropical medicine, clinical laboratory diagnosis and clinical assessments learned in earlier modules.

This will be supplemented with presentations from CoROM lecturers and subject matter experts that are based on case studies focusing on the top ten tropical diseases found globally.