Introduction to Travel for Healthcare Professionals

Day 1

09.15 Registration

09.30 Introduction and course objectives

09.45 What is travel medicine?

10.30 Risk assessment; the traveller, and the destination

11.00 Coffee

11.20 Travel risk management – Vaccine preventable diseases

12.30 Lunch

13.15 Immunisation theory

14.00 Refresher on Cold Chain and Anaphylaxis

14.20 Coffee

14.40 Health promotion and preventative measure for non-vaccine preventable diseases

15.15 Q&A - Setting tasks before Day 2

15.45 Close

Day 2

09.15 Registration

09.30 Introduction and course objectives

09.45 Risk assessment; the vaccines

10.30 Vaccine schedules

11.00 Coffee

11.20 Mosquito-borne diseases / Malaria

12.30 Lunch

13.15 Special needs and complex travellers

14.20 Coffee

14.40 Group work / shared learning

15.15 Providing safe effective travel service within Primary care – Q and A session

15.45 Close

Learning Outcomes

To understand the overall principle of travel medicine
Understand the importance of a risk assessment, the traveller, the destination, the vaccines.
Review the general immunisation theory – including resources that are available.
Learn the vaccine preventable travel diseases, relevant vaccinations, and their schedules.
Recognise the relevance of mosquito borne diseases / Malaria.
Discover how health promotion and preventative measure for non-vaccine preventable diseases can reduce disease incidence.
Analyse how we can care for special needs and complex travellers.
Gain an understanding of how providing safe effective travel service within Primary care can be undertaken, using key resources and competency frameworks.

Introduction to Travel Health