May 25, 2026
8:00 AM
This is a hybrid course, offering both virtual (via Zoom) and in-person participation at the Gordon & Leslie Diamond Health Care Centre (DHCC), 2775 Laurel Street, Vancouver, BC
Course Goals
Through interactive lectures and small-group sessions, participants will:
- Gain practical, evidence-based approaches for diagnosing and managing common tropical and travel-related illnesses.
- Strengthen their ability to assess and treat refugees and returning travellers through improved recognition of high-risk presentations and appropriate screening strategies.
- Build confidence in applying tropical medicine principles to practice via case discussions, clinical algorithms and focused updates.
Key Topics
The course covers three core areas: Clinical Tropical Medicine, Migrant and Refugee Health and Tropical and Travel Medicine Immunization.
Topics include:
- fever in the returning traveller
- diarrhea in the returning traveller
- screening and treating refugees for parasitic infections
- tropical eye diseases
- tropical dermatology
- tropical medicine vaccine updates
- eosinophilia
- clinical vignettes