TROPICAL MEDICINE EXPEDITIONS TO EAST AFRICA   (Since 1995)

Round-Trip Training Courses on Clinical Tropical Medicine and Travelers’ Health for Healthcare Professionals.

In collaboration with Kay Schaefer (MD, PhD, MSc, DTM&H), Consultant in Tropical Medicine and Travelers Health in Cologne, Germany and AMREF (Flying Doctors) in Nairobi (Kenya), the Joint Clinical Research Center in Kampala (Uganda) and the Flying Medical Service in Arusha (Tanzania)

Accreditation

60 CME contact hours on applied Clinical Tropical Medicine and Travelers’ Health

Summary report, publication and testimonials after 32 expeditions

Highlights
  
Two weeks round-trip to various teaching-hospitals, out-patient clinics and research projects in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania supervised by consultants on tropical medicine and travelers’ health from Germany and East-Africa
Individual on-site bedside teaching, laboratory manuals (hands-on microscopy on parasites in the blood, stool , urine and skin) and lectures in English
Field excursions to deserts (visceral leishmaniasis), rain forests (malaria, lymphatic filariasis, onchocerciasis, Dengue fever), fresh-water lakes (schistosomiasis) and national parks (antelopes: reservoir of African trypanosomiasis)
Training on DD of fever and diarrhoea in the returned traveller, WHO-vaccination guidelines, dive medicine, altitude sickness, venomous snakes, medical botany and visit to the "Flying Doctors".