Postgraduate Diploma in Travel Medicine (PGDipTravMed)

Summary

The Postgraduate Diploma in Travel Medicine (PGDipTravMed) builds on the PGCertTravMed. It adds to the foundations of travel medicine by exploring tropical infectious diseases in greater depth. Elective papers cover wilderness and expedition medicine and migrant and refugee health. As such, the diploma is an advanced nationally-recognised qualification for health professionals who practise in the field of travel medicine.

Graduates of the programme will have in-depth knowledge of the epidemiology, diagnosis and management of tropical infectious diseases. Depending on elective paper choice they will have skills in advising travellers planning extreme travel to resource poor and/or wilderness environments. The health needs of refugees and migrants and their management within the New Zealand context is covered in another elective paper.

Students come from differing professional backgrounds (including medical, nursing and pharmacy), as a consequence of this interprofessional nature of the course, the graduate will learn skills with respect to their individual disciplines

The Postgraduate Diploma in Travel Medicine (PGDipTravMed) is available through Distance Learning.

Schedule of papers (not exclusive)Core papers

• GENA 713 Travel Medicine 1: Introductory Concepts (30 points)
• GENA 714 Travel Medicine 2: Applied Concepts (30 points)
• GENA 719 Tropical Infectious Disease (30 points)

Elective papers

• GENA 720 Refugee and Migrant Health (30 points)
• HASC 417 Health Sciences Research Methods (30 points)
• PRHC 702 Wilderness and Expedition Medicine (30 points)
• Appropriate Primary Health Care, Aviation Medicine and Public Health papers (subject to individual application to the Board of Studies in Primary Health Care).