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2 day Travel Health Foundation Course
Wed, 06 Nov
|Virtual Event
Please note this is a 2 DAY EVENT. By booking for this one event you will be registered and must attend BOTH DAYS in order to receive your certificate.
Time & Location
06 Nov 2024, 08:45 – 07 Nov 2024, 17:00
Virtual Event
About the event
This will be a highly interactive and engaging live streamed course delivered virtually.
The trainers will use an interactive tool which will facilitate voting, taking part in case studies, sharing ideas/opinions, Q&A’s and enables the delegates to ask questions and interact with the trainer.
Aimed at:
This two day Introduction to Travel Health course is intended for registered health professionals (Registered Nurses, Nursing Associates, Paramedics, Pharmacists & GP’s) who may be new to the field of Travel Health, those returning to travel health after a long gap, or for those already practicing who may not have undertaken formal training in the subject and who wish to update and expand on their current knowledge.
https://rcpsg.ac.uk/travel-medicine/good-practice-guidance-for-providing-a-travel-health-service (page 16) states that after the completion of the 2 days Travel Health Training Course it is essential that it is followed by a period of supervised practice before providing travel consultations, when signing up for this course please bare this in mind.
The 2 day Introduction to travel health course covers the syllabus recommended in appendix C, including covid-19 and travel, risk assessment, travel vaccines, non-vaccine preventable illnesses, malaria, professional issues, and the latest developments in travel health.
When delegates have completed the course, it is recommended that they have a period of supervision in clinical practice whilst they develop their clinical skills and are assessed by their supervising practitioner as competent to undertake a travel consultation.