This course aims to equip medically qualified clinicians to work in tropical countries and to better understand tropical infections presenting in the UK. 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 6pm - 8.30 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, three face-to-face teach-in days will take place in Sheffield. These will be used to deliver practical teaching and training and be an opportunity for the class to get to know each other. The first, focused on Malaria will be near the beginning of the course - Friday September 11th 2026. This will be followed by a dinner in the evening.
The second and third will be two consecutive days of teaching on a Thursday and Friday in January for half the class, with the same sessions repeated on the subsequent Thursday and Friday for the other half of the class.

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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