Travel Medicine at Duke Student Health

Catalog description

Health education, immunizations, and medications pertinent to the traveler compose a distinct area of medical knowledge that has not been otherwise addressed in the curriculum. The medical student taking this course will review the major infectious illnesses of concern for each travel area. They will be responsible for the medical knowledge base and patient education needs about the mode of transmission and typical presentation of these illnesses, available behavioral intervention prevention methods, available vaccine prevention, options of chemical prophylaxis, and treatment if prevention is not successful. Students cannot take 1-week selective and 4- week elective. Permission of the instructor is required. Staff contact: Gretchen Oakley [email protected] 919 681 3066 Meet at 8:30 am first day at Student Health 305 Towerview Dr. Credit: 1. Enrollment max: 1. Melanie Trost, MD (NOTE - Meeting location was added for consistency, ahead of course director's name - will need to be updated in DukeHub.)