Travel & Geographical Medicine Seminars
- WHAT: 2 day WORLDWISE ONLINE Travel Medicine Conference
- Level 2
WHEN: Christchurch 19 - 20 June 2010
Travel and Tropical Medicine is a growing specialization. With around 2 million kiwis travelling overseas per year, Travel Health Professionals need to be regularly updated in global travel health information.
The WORLDWISE ONLINE Seminars have been annually presented for the last 12 years, and are the longest ongoing regular ‘open’ travel health meetings in Australasia.
This year’s WORLDWISE ONLINE conference offers Health Professionals a solid platform on which to learn and up-skill knowledge in this exciting specialization. It is aimed at all Primary Health Care Practitioners (General Practitioners, Public Health Physicians, Infectious Disease Specialists,
Military medical Staff, Pharmacists) with an interest in travel medicine. Primary Healthcare Nurses who have attended previous WORLDWISE ONLINE Level 1 courses are also invited to attend this annual meeting.
This year, the primary focus of the Conference will be on Corporate travellers and families travelling to the Asia - Pacific region. Special focus will be on- ‘rabies in our region’
- the safety of travel
- how to develop a risk analysis of a travel itinerary
- women and children travellers
There are to be special sections on ‘country based requirements’ for travel to South East Asia and Oceania.
- TRAVEL MEDICINE SEMINAR 2010 -
Level 2 - Auckland 22 June
Travel and Tropical Medicine is a growing specialization. With around 2 million kiwis travelling overseas per year, Travel Health Professionals need to be regularly updated in global travel health information.
The WORLDWISE ONLINE Seminars have been annually presented for the last 12 years, and are the longest ongoing regular ‘open’ travel
health meetings in Australasia.
This year’s WORLDWISE ONLINE seminar in Auckland offers Health Professionals a solid platform on which to learn and up-skill knowledge in this exciting specialization. It is aimed at all Primary Health Care Practitioners (General Practitioners, Public Health Physicians, Infectious Disease Specialists, Military medical Staff, Pharmacists) with an interest in travel medicine. Primary Healthcare Nurses who have attended previous WORLDWISE ONLINE Level 1 courses are also invited to attend this annual meeting.
This year, the primary focus of the Seminar will be on travellers to the Asia - Pacific region with an interesting sprinkle of other destination areas, travelling types, disease information and updates.
The seminar will be hosted at The Marion Davis Centre at the Auckland City Hospital in Auckland.
We look forward to seeing you there!