BNITM DTM Course
The Diploma Course will train physicians to work in countries of the tropics or subtropics. The course will enable participants to diagnose and treat diseases in travellers and migrants from the tropics and subtropics and to provide preventive medical travel-related advice.
The course focuses on the aetiology, epidemiology, clinical presentation, diagnosis and treatment of tropical diseases and clinical work in low-resource settings. It also covers travel medicine and principles of global health.
Curriculum:This course will teach you the following knowledge and skills:• Epidemiology, diagnosis and treatment of tropical and travel associated diseases including bacterial, viral, mycotic and parasitic infections and venomous animal accidents.• Medical advice before travel and foreign assignments including prophylactic measures.• Prinicples of public health in low and middle income countries.• Principles of occupational health for travellers with long term stays.• Indications, proper sample collection and handling for laboratory examinations and classification of the results in the respective clinical profile.• Microscopic detection of protozoa, worms and parasites.
Teaching Mode:• Full-time on-site teaching• Lectures• Workshops• Small-group work• Self-study (with access to our German reference library for literature on tropical medicine at BNITM)• Laboratory practicals, microscopy and clinical teaching
Academic requirements:• The Course in Tropical Medicine & Hygiene is open to postgraduate medical doctors who hold a medical degree (MD/MBBS or equivalent) from a medical school in any country and who are licensed to practise medicine in that country.
All lectures will be given in English. You must have a good command of English to attend.
