Master of Travel Medicine (MTravMed)

Summary

Master of Travel Medicine (MTravMed) graduates will have a thorough and rigorous understanding of the discipline of Travel Medicine, including tropical and migrant medicine, and a broad knowledge of health care systems and the place of Travel Medicine within those systems, particularly in relation to effective delivery in primary health care settings. They will be able to contribute significantly to new interdisciplinary developments in health care delivery, and to an increasing international body of knowledge in Travel Medicine. They will have an understanding of the principles of evidence-based practice, and of research methodology appropriate to the discipline, including both quantitative and qualitative methods.

Intending students should make early contact with the Department of Primary Health Care & General Practice (University of Otago, Wellington) regarding study plans.