Two Day Introduction to Travel Health

Course Content:-

An interactive and engaging approach to delivering a live streamed training session via Zoom. The trainer uses an interactive tool which can be used for voting, taking part in case studies, sharing ideas/opinions, Q&A’s and makes the course more interesting by being interactive. Delegates can ask questions and interact with the trainer.

Aimed at:

This two day Introduction to Travel Health course is intended for nurses/health professionals who may be new to the field of Travel Health, those returning to travel health after a long gap, or for those already practicing who may not have undertaken formal training in the subject and who wish to update and expand on their current knowledge.

https://rcpsg.ac.uk/travel-medicine/good-practice-guidance-for-providing-a-travel-health-service (page 16) was states that 2 days travel health training is essential followed by a period of supervised practice before providing travel consultations. The 2 day Introduction to travel health course covers the syllabus recommended in appendix C, including covid-19 and travel, risk assessment, travel vaccines, non-vaccine preventable illnesses, malaria, professional issues, and the latest developments in travel health.

When delegates have completed the course, it is recommended that they have a period of supervision in clinical practice whilst they develop their clinical skills and are assessed by their supervising practitioner as competent to undertake a travel consultation.

Course content:

• The travel consultation
• Tools and resources
• Risk assessment
• Vaccine preventable diseases
• Non-vaccine preventable diseases
• Other health risks
• Case studies and scheduling of vaccines
• Legal aspects and responsibilities of the travel health practitioner
• Malaria
• Mosquito borne diseases
• The complex traveller
• FGM & the travel consultation
• Covid-19 & advising travellers

Points to consider:

Delegates will require:

• To access course on a computer, laptop, tablet, or iPad with a large screen (i.e. bigger than a phone) with working speakers & microphone
• A separate mobile phone (We use menti.com for the interactive element of the course). The trainer will provide a code for this when the meeting starts.
• A good internet connection
• To be in an environment where you will not be disturbed, as you will need to be present for the whole course (as it is interactive & live).
• After the course: you will require a colleague to be your supervising practitioner to help develop your skills in clinical practice and assess your competency prior to you undertaking travel consultations alone.