The world is getting smaller. Prior to the pandemic, increasing numbers of people traveled internationally for business and leisure. When the crisis is past, this exponential growth in travel will resume.
“Travel medicine” used to be deferred to infectious disease specialists. However, the reality is that it involves far more than mere infections and is essentially a health maintenance encounter: identifying risks, providing patient counseling, optimizing chronic disease management, and offering prophylactic interventions. Is this not the very essence of family medicine? With the availability of evidence-based, point-of-care references, this is an area of medical practice that family physicians can and should offer to their patients.
This new educational activity is strongly case-based/problem-based and emphasizes travel consultations at the domestic family medicine practice. It is aimed to give practical guidance on travel risk stratification, disease prevention, and seeking care while abroad.
Physicians can expand their knowledge in counseling families journeying with young children, or patients planning to engage in adventure travel, or those having special needs or preexisting medical conditions. Bridge any knowledge gaps in tropical medicine, travel immunizations, and immigrant and refugee health. Identify those for whom their family physician is the right choice for care, and those few for whom specialty referral is appropriate.
Learn from travel medicine experts from home, office, or on-the-go.
This livestream continuing medical education course has been approved for 12.5 credits and will be held Friday-Saturday, March 19-20. Register today.
Questions? Please contact Alex Ivanov or Ashley Poole.