Didactic lectures (see participants at lecture)
Traditional lecture format given in 1 hour blocks for 2 hours each morning and in 1.5 hour blocks on some afternoons.

Small Group Tutorials
Small-Group Tutorials are clinically-oriented problem solving sessions where a senior faculty member presents and leads an interactive discussion on a series of 5 short standardized cases illustrating different aspects of a disease, syndrome, or group of therapeutic agents.

Diagnostic laboratory Course (see participants & faculty in teaching lab)
Part of each day's laboratory block will consist of a didactic presentation on diagnostic helminthology, protozology, bacteriology, or mycology.

Laboratory practical (see participants & faculty working in the lab)
Hands-on microscopy, preparation of blood films, gram stains, acid fast stains, KOH preps, stool concentrations for O & P, trichrome stains. Each participant receives an individual slide box to be kept for the duration of the course.

Out-patient Clinics and Ward Rounds (see participants & faculty on rounds)
2.5 hours per day either doing ward rounds, in an outpatient clinic, or at a subspecialty clinic on a rotating basis. Clinical exposure is not merely observational. Intensive interactive clinical teaching by one of the listed course clinical faculty is done in small groups. Each participant will attend at least one clinic in each of the tropical subspecialties listed, and highly illustrative patients will be arranged for those days. Clinics and rounds in Cuzco and in Iquitos will feature pre-arranged highly illustrative cases. Unlike in many other on-site tropical training settings, the patients seen by Gorgas physicians have full access to advanced diagnostic microbiology, immunology pathology and radiology so that dagnoses are in most cases confirmed and not merely presumptive.

Case Conferences
Most of these sessions are in CPC format. A written case protocol is presented by a faculty member who then leads an interactive discussion of differential diagnosis and diagnostic workup. Other case conferences will involve teaching cases in a specific subject area collected over time by a faculty member.

Special Activities
Epi-Info training, visit to the Iquitos Primate Center, visit to UPCH primary care projects in the community, visit to traditional healers, nightime field entomology exercise.

Independent Study (see participants in our Educational Resource Facility)
In addition to the 382.5 contact hours of formal teaching, participants can utilize the Educational Resource Facility during off hours and weekends. PC's, reference texts, atlases, teaching slides, WHO/PAHO videos & manuals, Epi-Info, and travel medicine software are all available.