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Tropical Medicine Expeditions to East Africa
| Location: | Uganda |
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| Categories: | Leisure, Outdoors, Charity |
| When: | Jan 28, 2007 to Feb 09, 2007 |
| Family: | No |
| Cost: | 3,490 euros |
In collaboration with Kay Schaefer (MD, PhD, MSc, DTM&H), Cologne, Germany and the Universities of Mbarara, Uganda and Nairobi, Kenya
Highlights
-Supervised by Consultants on Tropical Medicine from Germany and Africa
- Individual bedside teaching on-site, laboratory manuals and powerpoint presentations in English
-Two weeks round-trip to various hospitals and out-patient clinics in Uganda or Kenya Scientific excursions to various National Parks (e.g. Antilopes: reservoir in African Trypanosomiasis) and Rain Forests (e.g. Breeding site of simulium fly: Onchocerciasis)
-Visits to the 'Flying Doctors' (AMREF) and Joint Clinical Research Center (JCRC), where new HIV vaccine trials are carried out
-A certificate (50 contact hours on applied Clinical Tropical Medicine & Travellers' Health) is given by accredited authorities from Germany on completion of the course
