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Summary

Course details

Course type:

Online course

Director of studies:

Ms Philippa Tubb

Director of studies email:

mylstm@lstmed.ac.uk

Duration:

4 weeks (online)

Home fee:

£360

Overseas fee:

£360

3 good reasons to study

You will develop your theoretical and practical knowledge and skills in advising travellers about travel vaccinations using a variety of interactive online education tools to facilitate learning with other health professionals.

The course is delivered by experienced clinical professionals from the Well Travelled Clinics at LSTM and Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust who have a wide experience of advising global travellers and teaching health professionals about travel health.

This interactive online learning with subject specialists and other students enables flexible study to suit your needs, and inlcudes practical case studies from travel health consultations and discussion forums.

COVID-19 UPDATE

LSTM online courses are planned to run as normal as staff can access and facilitate these remotely. We will be in regular communication with our applicants and offer holders to let them know of any changes.

If you are interested in these courses, please apply early as we are experiencing unprecedented interest and there may be some delays to processing your application.

This is also a module within the Professional Diploma in Travel Health

Course Outline

Travel health medicine is a fast-growing and fast-moving area of clinical practice. All health professionals providing travel health advice need to be familiar with current travel health issues, and be able to deliver correct advice using reliable information resources tailored to the individual needs of each traveller. More people with pre-existing illnesses or other special needs are travelling, so delivering advice is becoming more complex.

This online course aims to equip new and experienced practitioners in the development of their vaccination knowledge and skills within a travel health setting. It will provide a platform of confident practice, reflection and continuing professional development through interactive learning with subject specialists and peers.

The course covers:

Vaccine preventable diseases of importance to the travel health practitioner
Accessing reliable evidence based country specific vaccine information
The immune system and the interplay with vaccines
Types of vaccines
Practical aspects of administering multiple vaccines and vaccine scheduling
Application of knowledge using travel scenarios for vaccine administration
Factors that affect vaccine delivery including cold chain and traveller specific issues such as existing health problems.

Entrance Requirements

Academic requirements:

This course is suitable for anyone who works in the fields of travel health, nursing or travel medicine. GPs, practice nurses, travel health advisors, pharmacists, specialist infectious disease doctors in training and other related disciplines would find this course extremely useful.

Open to all health related disciplines, including medicine.

Work experience:

Students who have previously completed this course have a rich and varied background, including:

Doctors worldwide
NHS GP practice doctors and nurses
Travel Medicine Clinic staff worldwide

Health professionals have had backgrounds in Singapore, the UK, British Virgin Islands, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy and Australia.

English language requirements:

The course is taught in English. Students whose first language is not English should be aware that to gain maximum benefit from the course, you should have English language proficiency at the equivalent of an IELTS (International English Language Testing System) score of at least 6.5. More English language information can be found on our website - http://www.lstmed.ac.uk/study/how-to-apply/english-language-requirements

However, applicants will be considered if English Language competence is demonstrated by alternative means to the IELTS test. For example, this may include published papers in English, a work setting where English is the language of operation, or successful attendance on other courses held in English.

Other requirements:

IT system requirements for study

To enable you to participate and get the most out of the online course we recommend the following;

You will need access to a functioning desktop computer or laptop, Mac or Windows. Aspects of the course may be undertaken on an internet enabled portable device such as an iPad or tablet, however core learning will require a full computer with a keyboard, mouse and screen. Any typical computer produced within the last five years should be sufficient.

The computer will need to have a reliable internet connection sufficient for streaming online video content or two-way communication. This will require a minimum stable internet speed of 500Kbps (kilobits per second) usually provided through corporate LAN, broadband, ADSL, DSL, cable internet and most stable 3G connections. It is unlikely that dial-up modem connections will suffice. Internet speed tests may be undertaken online to determine your internet speed, for example www.speedtest.net/

You will need headphones or speakers connected to your computer. Standard earbuds will work fine. If you are unable to use audio devices, as part of LSTM policy we will make reasonable adjustment to the course such as providing transcripts of audiovisual media.

To get the most out of the course you will need to use a modern and up-to-date web browser such as:

Mozilla Firefox - Latest
Google Chrome - Latest
Apple Safari - Latest*

It is possible to use other browsers, but if you encounter problems we will ask you to try one of the freely available supported browsers listed above.

*If using Apple Safari, you may need to change your Preferences to allow all third party cookies.

Your web browser will need to have Javascript and Cookies enabled. You can conduct an automated system check to determine if you are using a supported browser, and to check if Javascript and Cookies enabled, here: https://brightspace.lstmed.ac.uk/d2l/systemCheck.

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Aims

This course aims to:

Explain the basic principles of the immune response to live and non-live vaccines

Describe the key features of the vaccine preventable diseases studied

List the vaccines relevant to your travellers in your practice setting and be able to summarise the schedules and efficacy of these vaccines

Demonstrate the application of your learning in travel health consultations

Testimonials

Beverley Gratwohl - Nurse Practitioner in the UK.

I really enjoyed the online lectures and being able to study at my own pace was great, this meant I could listen to them a couple of times if I didn't get all the info I needed the first time. The info given was relevant and up to date, I really enjoyed the complex traveler section. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend this course

The lectures were well structured, easy to follow, right amount of information to take in 1 week. Having the 1 week limit was a great idea as it helped and encouraged to keep up with everyone and not to fall behind. (January 2017 student)

Learning more about vaccine schedules, especially about those vaccines I'm not very familiar with was very useful. I found lectures very useful. Kept simple to give just to right amount of information (January 2017 student)

The best immunology lecture I have ever had (January 2017 student)

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Start date	End date	Home fee	Overseas fee
13 January 2022	10 February 2022	£360	£360	Apply

Start date:
13 January 2022

End date:
10 February 2022

Home fee:
£360

Overseas fee:
£360

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Travel Vaccinations: Principles and Practice