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The
Gorgas Course in Clinical Tropical Medicine
Learn Tropical Medicine in the Tropics
Sponsored by The Gorgas Memorial Institute of Tropical &
Preventive Medicine in collaboration with UAB Division of Geographic Medicine
and Cayetano Heredia University, Lima, Peru.
Given in Lima, Peru, this unique tropical medicine training initiative combines
an international faculty with didactic and formal bedside teaching right
in the tropics. Intensive diploma course in English with 320 contact hours:
160 formal lecture hours, plus diagnostic laboratory, daily ward rounds
on a 36-bed tropical disease unit or daily out-patient clinic, and case
conferences. Two 4-day teaching trips to field clinics in the Andes and
Amazon. Scholarships are available to those who are both nationals and residents
of a developing world country. |