Duration: Monday
- Friday of 2 consecutive weeks.
Rounds: 5
participants and 1 senior sub-specialty certified faculty per group
Patients: Many
illustrative patients to be called in to coincide with the course
- 3 hours/day seeing inpatients
- 3 hours/day seeing outpatients
- Parasitology demonstrations
- Case conference/CPC every
lunch hour
- Late afternoon case presentations
by enrolled participants and faculty
Saturday Excursion to The
Andes:
Verruga
Bridge and villages in the inter-Andean valleys endemic for bartonellosis
and leishmaniasis (see photos); ascent
to 15,800 feet .
**Ward rounds to include for each group, one session each in tropical neurology,
tropical opthalmology, tropical pediatrics, and tropical gastroenterology.
Out-Patient Clinics and Ward
Rounds: (see
participants & faculty on rounds)
Clinical exposure is not
merely observational. 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 diagnoses are in most cases confirmed and not merely presumptive.
Intensive interactive clinical teaching by one of the listed course
clinical
faculty is
done in
small groups
of five. In addition
to the 36-bed tropical/infectious disease ward, participants will round
on the most interesting patients gathered from other sub-specialty services
of the 400-bed Cayetano Heredia Hospital. 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.
Case Conferences (30
minutes/day):
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.
Didactic Lectures (1
hour/day):
Traditional lecture format covering uniquely Peruvian experiences with
specific diseases.
Independent Study: (see
participants in our Study Center)
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. |