COURSE DATES & FORMAT:

The annual ISTM TMRUC will be offered online 03 and 04 February 2023. This will be a hybrid virtual event of live and pre-recorded presentations. Participants will have ample opportunity to interact with the faculty through interactive sessions and informal discussions. The course will be available on-demand after the live event. 

COURSE DESCRIPTION

The Travel Medicine Review and Update Course is designed to review the ISTM Body of Knowledge for the Practice of Travel Medicine and to highlight recent developments in Travel Medicine. The curriculum will cover topics relevant to physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals who provide medical care and advice to travellers, expatriates, and migrants.

Sessions offered will include principles of immune response, risk assessment, and a travel vaccine overview. The expert faculty will present topics including adventure travel, bites and envenomation, cases, food and water exposures, ill returning travellers, risk assessment, malaria, yellow fever, special travellers, vaccines, and vectors. The care of special groups such as pregnant women, pediatric travellers, immigrants, VFR travellers, diabetics, and immunocompromised hosts will also be discussed. Recent developments and advances in travellers' diarrhea, immunizations, malaria medications, and navigating COVID in travel will be highlighted.

COURSE CHAIR

Elizabeth A. Talbot, MD

Travel Medicine Review and Update Course, Chair

Deputy State Epidemiologist, NH DHHS

Professor of Medicine, Infectious Diseases and International Health, Dartmouth, New Hampshire, USA

COURSE PLANNING COMMITTEE

Chair: Elizabeth A. Talbot, United States

Lin Chen, United States

Mary-Louise Scully, United States

Yen-Giang Bui, Canada

Sarah Kohl, United States

Sheila Mackell, United States

COURSE SPEAKERS

Aisha Khatib, Canada

Davidson Hamer, United States

Elizabeth Barnett, United States

Gerard Flaherty, Ireland

Henry Wu, United States

Elizabeth Talbot, United States

Lin Chen, United States

Mary-Louise Scully, United States

Christina Greenaway, Canada

Sapha Barkati

Sarah Kohl, United States

Sheila Mackell, United States

Natalie Prevatt, United Kingdom

Mui Bui

David Freedman

INTERNATIONAL PANEL ON YELLOW FEVER

Aluisio Segurado, Brazil

Leo Visser, Netherlands

Watcharapong Piyaphanee, Thailand

Mary-Louise Scully, United States

Salim Parker, South Africa

Summary by: Davidson Hamer, United States

Moderator: Yen-Giang Bui, Canada

INTERNATIONAL PANEL ON MALARIA

Dipti Patel, United Kingdom

Francesca Norman, Spain

Mike Starr, Australia

Shigeyuki Kano, Japan

Moderator: Kristina Angelo, United States

COURSE MODERATORS

Christina Coyle, United States

Francesca Norman, Spain

Gerard Flaherty, Ireland

Kristina Angelo, United States

Steven Schofield, Canada

Yen-Giang Bui, Canada

David Shlim, United States

CREDIT HOURS

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Amedco LLC and International Society of Travel Medicine.  Amedco LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Physicians (ACCME) Credit Designation

Amedco LLC designates this live activity/enduring material for a maximum of 16.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 

Nurses (ANCC) Credit Designation

Amedco LLC designates this activity for a maximum of 16.25 ANCC contact hours.

Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians (ACPE) Credit Designation

Amedco LLC designates this activity for a maximum of 4.00 knowledge-based CPE contact hours.

NOTE to Pharmacists: The only official Statement of Credit is the one you pull from CPE Monitor. You must request your certificate within 30 days of your participation in the activity to meet the deadline for submission to CPE Monitor. 

How to Get Your Certificate

• Go to http://istm.cmecertificateonline.com/
• Evaluate the meeting.
• Print all pages of your certificate for your records.
• If you lose your certificate, or need help, go to http://help.cmecertificateonline.com/

2.      Click on the “Enduring ISTM 2023 Travel Medicine Review and Update Course – Physicians and Nurses” or “Enduring ISTM 2023 Travel Medicine Review and Update Course – Pharmacists” link.

 Questions? Email Certificate@AmedcoEmail.com

 

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