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?