Tropical Travel & Expedition Medical Skills Course
Tropical Travel & Expedition Medical Skills (TTEMS)
- Remote and Offshore Planning
- Head and EENT Emergencies
- Feet and Skin Issues
- Dental Emergencies
- Orthopaedic Injuries
- Critical Care and Aviation Medicine
- Altitude Medicine
- Dive Medicine
- Analgesics and Antibiotics
- Genitourinary and
- Sexual Health
- Snakebites
- Stings and Wee Beasties
- Expedition Health and Hygiene
- Joint Reductions
- Long-term Wound Care
- Steri-strips and suturing
- Introduction to Tropical Medicine Austere Clinical Laboratory
- Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Influenza, Ebola and Avian Flu
- Infectious Skin Diseases
- Tropical Water Supply and Sanitation
- Top Ten Tropical Diseases
- Diarrhoea and the Management of Acute Dehydration
- Tropical Pharmacology
- Tropical Medicine Case Studies
The College of Remote and Offshore Medicine Foundation offers Intro TTEMS and Advanced TTEMS onsite in Malta for a challenging week of learning and hands-on skills.
Tropical, Travel and Expedition Medical Skills focuses on wilderness, tropical, expedition, and travel medicine. The course is based on disease and non-battle injury (DNBI) research found in the review of recent expeditions and military deployments. It focuses on the top twenty injuries and ailments found in remote clinics worldwide as well as the top ten tropical disease killers. The module culminates with a prolonged field care exercise.
Online Prep Course
Must be completed prior to on-site start date. Purchase the TTEMS Online Prep Course here (€95)
Intro TTEMS Course
The first week of this programme covers the basics of tropical medicine, expedition medicine and the practice of healthcare in remote and austere environments. We include prolonged field care experience working on live casualties.
Advanced TTEMS
The second week of this programme covers the advanced topics in tropical medicine, expedition medicine and the practice of healthcare in remote and austere environments. This week includes an introduction to the use of Ultrasound for diagnostics on tropical diseases and in expedition medicine.
Tuition: €1250
- Accreditation: Approved by the Fellow of the Academy of Wilderness Medicine™ (FAWM) through the Wilderness Medical Society
- Programme Length: 5 Days
- Course Delivery: On Campus
CoROM Podcast Channel
The College releases a new podcast each Friday discussing wilderness medicine, austere healthcare and emergency medicine. We have four presenters including an MD PhD cardiologist, COL(ret) anaesthetist burns and pain specialist, a critical care paramedic and an offshore medic.
Listen to CoROM's podcast with expedition ship medic
Get CPD Credit
You can earn free Continuing Professional Development credits by listening to these podcasts and taking a short quiz on the content. Only current Members of the College will be eligible to sit these quizzes and earn CPD credit.
Join the college of remote and offshore medicine foundation
Discover, develop or re-ignite your passion for austere medicine!