This course aims to equip medically qualified clinicians to work in tropical countries and to better understand tropical infections presenting in other countries. Students will gain essential skills and competence in clinical tropical medicine, the epidemiology of tropical diseases and their control, diagnostic laboratory skills in low technology settings, and travel hygiene. The course is designed for medical doctors in full-time work. We use a mix of online webinars, and face-to-face and self-directed learning to ensure the syllabus is covered with flexibility.

Detailed Description

Webinar-based and face-to-face teaching

The core of the course involves seminars from 7pm - 9.30pm (6pm - 8.30pm UK time) every Tuesday evening between September and May. The teaching seminars will be delivered as interactive webinars using the University of Sheffield Blackboard Collaborate system. These webinars will also be recorded and available for review from 24 hours following the teaching.

During the course, face to face teaching will take place at the 4 day Parasitology Laboratory Diagnosis course in the National Institute for Communicable Diseases in Johannesburg in January or February 2027.

During the teaching days, you will receive practical training in the use of basic microscopy to diagnose tropical infection, in line with DTM&H exam requirements. This will teach you to prepare and read stool, urine, CSF and sputum slides, and perform diagnostic parasitology and entomology, including making and reading blood films for malaria.

Successful completion of this course qualifies you to take the exam with the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries.

PLEASE NOTE:
The course fee does NOT include the exam registration fee. The exam is handled completely by the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries. Taking the exam is optional. You are eligible to sit the exam for 5 years following the successful completion of the DTM&H course.
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