The Gorgas Course in Clinical Tropical Medicine
Course Photographs & Evaluations from Our Graduates

Photographs: Teaching Field Trips

5 days are spent in Iquitos in the heart of the Amazon jungle.
Ward rounds at local hospitals, field entomology exercises, and visits to primary care programs are included.

Iquitos hospital - Malaria ward
Dr. Pedro Legua leads rounds.

Diagnosing malaria at laboratory in Iquitos.
Rob Tingley (Canada) at the microscope.

Malaria Village
In this teaching exercise Col. Alan Magill of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research leads a teaching visit to Padre Cocha, a riverine study village with hyperendemic malaria.
Field entomology - Anopheles breeding site in malaria village.

Village health post in Iquitos

Regional hospital of Cusco at an altitude of over 11,000 feet in the Andes.
Ward rounds in Cuzco take place at this local hospital.

Non-traditional medicine:
visit to medical plants market in Iquitos

Nighttime field entomology exercises
U.S. Naval Medical Research Center Detachment (Iquitos field station).

Nighttime field entomology exercises

Visit to Community Health Center in an impoverished area of Lima.

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