My Travel Medicine Journey

Today I decided to cover a section from the next category that is very different from the vaccine section that was covered last week.  03. PRETRAVEL ASSESSMENT/CONSULTATION (35%) 05. Athletes I wasn’t able to find a comprehensive discussion anywhere about pretravel consideration for athletes; however, the CDC Yellow book has an excellent section about adventure travel in Chapter 9.  Most of what I found available online was discussing preparations and treatments for jet lag and travel fatigue to help athletes…

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I feel like it gets a little daunting and is tedious to go through some of the sections in order so I decided to jump from section to section, covering what I felt like were the higher yield sections and mixing up the categories so that the information didn’t start to blur in my memory.  Having a solid understanding of travel medicine diseases, treatments, preventive measures and vaccines seemed the most relevant.  So, today I’m covering the next section under…

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The next section in the Body of Knowledge is 01. EPIDEMIOLOGY (10%)02. Geographic specificity/global distribution of diseases and potential health hazards This is a very general topic and too much to cover all at one time; however, further down is a review of diseases and health hazards so this information gets broken down later into manageable chunks. I decided to move on to the next section which is the basics of vaccines.  The topics specifically mentioned are live vaccines, inactivated…

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I had wanted to get this started up last year but was too busy between school and work so this year I’d like to start by covering some of the topics that appear in the Body of Knowledge for the Practice of Travel Medicine – revised 2017.  Reviewing the material that I compiled is what helped me to pass the Certificate in Travel HealthTM exam.  Additionally, I attended the review course, which I found extremely helpful.  I also had some…

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