Learning Objectives

• Discuss the information to be gathered in a pre-travel consultation (the risk assessment)
• Analyse an itinerary in the light of a travel medicine website to plan appropriate malaria prophylaxis and vaccinations
• Identify common travel-related vaccinations and discuss the risks mitigated by their use
• Demonstrate the skills and knowledge needed to give appropriate travel advice to patients and colleagues planning international travel
• Analyse the ethical implications of working in LMIC countries

Pre-Travel Care

• what does pre-travel care involve?
• what does post-travel care involve?
• what happens in a pre-travel consult?
• when should this consult take place?
• what information do you ask about in a risk assessment?
• what the risk factors of high-risk travellers?
• how do you manage these risks?

Travel Immunisations

• what can cause traveller’s diarrhoea?
• how is COVID-19 prevented?
• how is hepatitis A prevented?
• how is typhoid prevented?