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Tropical and Geographic Medicine 2024
Registration for the 2024 UBC Tropical and Geographic Medicine Intensive Short Course is now open!
Date: May 13-17, 2024
Time: 8:00 am – 4:00 pm Pacific Time
- May 13 only: 7:45 am start time
- May 17 only: 4:15 pm course adjournment
Location: This is a hybrid course. Participants select mode of attendance at time of registration.
In-person: Gordon and Leslie Diamond Health Care Centre, 2775 Laurel Street, Vancouver, BC (map)
Online: Zoom
Register early: by April 26, 2024
First of its kind in western Canada and offered since 2014, we developed the Tropical and Geographic Medicine Intensive Short Course to provide health professionals with training on a clinical approach to the evaluation and management of tropical diseases. A laboratory component in the curriculum allows learners to acquire practical laboratory skills to identify parasites important for the diagnosis of tropical disease. An important element in this course is the inclusion of a public health focus on management of tropical diseases including outbreak investigation.
Target Audience: Physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, medical trainees, pharmacists, public health practitioners, and other healthcare professionals who intend to practice in the tropics, resource-limited settings, or who require an update on infectious, parasitic and other major tropical diseases.
This course is approved for CME accreditation. To view details, please click on the banner ACCREDITATION below.
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Accreditation
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College of Family Physicians of Canada Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
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Accreditation/Certification statement: The Division of Continuing Professional Development, University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine (UBC CPD) is fully accredited by the Continuing Medical Education Accreditation Committee (CACME) to provide CPD credits for physicians. This activity is an Accredited Group Learning Activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and approved by UBC CPD. You may claim a maximum of 33.75 hours (credits are automatically calculated). This one-credit-per-hour Group Learning program meets the certification criteria of the College of Family Physicians of Canada and has been certified by UBC CPD for up to 33.75 Mainpro+® credits. Each physician should claim only those credits accrued through participation in the activity. CFPC Session ID: 202133-001 This program was co-developed between the UBC Faculty of Medicine, School of Population and Public Health and UBC Division of Infectious Diseases and was planned to achieve scientific integrity, objectivity and balance.
Medical residents may begin participating in the MOC and Mainpro+ credit programs during residency. Specialist residents may transfer up to 75 credits reported during residency into their first 5-year MOC cycle. |
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American Medical Association (AMA) European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS) Qatar Council for Healthcare Practitioners Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) |
The Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Canada has four international agreements in place for continuing professional development (CPD) and Maintenance of Certification (MOC) Program credits. Detailed information, including agreement expiration dates, is available here |
| College of Pharmacists of British Columbia | Completion of this course qualifies for 33.5 hours toward CE-Plus and one or more of your 6 Learning Records. Please check College of Pharmacists of BC website for PDAP criteria. |
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Canadian Nurses Association |
As part of their activities to maintain continued competency to practice, registered nurses may report participation in this course and the application of learning outcomes in their learning plan section of their annual self-assessment. In addition, RNs considering using this course as part of their continuous learning (CL) activities for CNA Certification Renewal should consult the CNA Certification Program renewal CL guidelines to ensure that this course meets the CL. |
Planning Committee
| Course Directors | Jan Hajek, MD, FRCPC, DTMH | Clinical Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, UBC, Vancouver BC |
| Katherine Plewes, BSc, MSc, MD, DTMH, DPhil, FRCPC | Clinical Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, UBC, Vancouver BC | |
| Laboratory Coordinator | Miguel Imperial, MD, MHSc, D(ABMM), FRCPC | Course Laboratory Coordinator, Medical Microbiologist, Northern Health Authority; LifeLabs; Clinical Assistant Professor, Dept. of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UBC, Vancouver BC |
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Other Planning Committee Members
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David Goldfarb, MD, FRCPC | Medical Microbiologist, Dept. of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, UBC; BC Children’s & Women’s Hospitals; Clinical Associate Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, Dept. of Paediatrics, McMaster University |
| Susan Hollenberg, MD, MCFP, Certificate in Travel Health | Clinical Assistant Professor, Dept of Family Practice, UBC, Vancouver BC | |
| Mary Kestler, MD, DTMH | Clinical Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, UBC; Oak Tree Clinic, BC Women’s Hospital and Health Centre, St. Paul’s Hospital, Infectious Diseases Division, Vancouver BC | |
| Shazia Masud, MD, FRCPC | Medical Microbiologist, Fraser Health Authority, Surrey Memorial Hospital, Surrey BC | |
| Yazdan Mirzanejad, MD, DTMH, FRCPC, FACP, MRCP (London) | Associate Professor, Division of Infectious Disease, UBC; Chair, Tropical Medicine Expert Group of BC | |
| David M. Patrick, MD, FRCPC, MHSc | Professor, School of Population and Public Health (SPPH), UBC; Director of Research, BC Centre for Disease Control, Provincial Health Services Authority, Vancouver BC | |
| Laura Sauvé, MD, MPH, DTMH, FRCPC | Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, UBC; Pediatric Infectious Diseases Specialist, BC Children’s Hospital & Oak Tree Clinic, BC Women’s Hospital, Vancouver BC; Medical lead (C&W), Infection Control, Provincial Health Services Authority | |
| Inna Sekirov, MD, PhD, D(ABMM), FRCPC | Medical Microbiologist & Program Head, TB/Mycobacteriology Laboratory, BC Centre for Disease Control Public Health Laboratory, Provincial Health Services Authority, Vancouver, BC | |
| Course Coordinator | Lydia Ma, MSc, PhD | Adjunct Faculty, Continuing Education, School of Population and Public Health, UBC |
Course Faculty
Listing in alphabetical order of last name:
| Christina Coyle, MD, MS | Professor, Dept. of Medicine (Infectious Diseases); Professor, Dept of Pathology; Assistant Dean for Faculty Development; Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA |
| Eleni Galanis, MD, MPH, FRCPC | Director General, Centre for Integrated Risk Assessment, Public Health Agency of Canada |
| Wayne Ghesquiere, MD, FRCPC | Infectious Diseases/Tropical Diseases and Internal Medicine Consultant, Royal Jubilee Hospital and Victoria General Hospital, Victoria, BC; Clinical Assistant Professor, Dept of Medicine, University of British Columbia |
| Aniruddha Ghose, MD, FCPS, FRCP Edin | Professor, Department of Medicine, Chittagong Medical College, Bangladesh |
| David Goldfarb, MD, FRCPC | Medical Microbiologist, Associate Head, Dept of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, BC Children’s & Women’s Hospital |
| Jan Hajek, MD, FRCPC, DTMH | Course Director; Clinical Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, UBC, Vancouver BC |
| David Harris, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, DTM&H | Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, UBC, Vancouver BC; Clinical Educator, Providence Health Care, Vancouver BC |
| Michael Hawkes, BEng, MD, PhD, DTM&H, FRCPC | Investigator and Pediatric Infectious Diseases Consultant, BC Children’s Hospital; Associate Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, Dept. of Pediatrics, UBC, Vancouver BC |
| Catherine Hogan, MD, FRCPC | Medical Microbiologist, BC Centre for Disease Control Public Health Laboratory; Clinical Assistant Professor, Dept. of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Vancouver BC |
| Miguel Imperial, MD, MHSc, D(ABMM), FRCPC | Course Laboratory Coordinator, Medical Microbiologist, Northern Health Authority; LifeLabs; Clinical Assistant Professor, Dept. of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UBC, Vancouver BC |
| Murray B. Isman, MSc, PhD | Dean Emeritus, Applied Biology (Entomology/Toxicology), Faculty of Land and Food Systems, UBC, Vancouver BC |
| Mary Kestler, MD, DTMH | Clinical Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, UBC; Oak Tree Clinic, BC Women’s Hospital and Health Centre, St. Paul’s Hospital, Infectious Diseases Division, Vancouver BC |
| Clara Komuhangi, MBChB, MMed (Paediatrics and child health) | Clinical Fellow, BC Children’s Hospital, Vancouver BC |
| Shazia Masud, MD, FRCPC | Medical Microbiologist, Fraser Health Authority, Surrey Memorial Hospital, Surrey BC |
| Rose McGready, MBBS (Medicine), PhD | Professor, Tropical Maternal and Child Health, Shoklo Malaria Research Unit, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford |
| Yazdan Mirzanejad, MD, DTMH, FRCPC, FACP, MRCP (London) | Associate Professor, Division of Infectious Disease, UBC; Chair, Tropical Medicine Expert Group of BC |
| Christopher Parry, BA (Hons), MB, BChir, PhD, FRCP, FRCPath, DTMH | Senior Clinical Lecturer; Programme Director, Diploma in Tropical Medicine & Hygiene; Clinical Director, Clinical Parasitology Diagnostic Laboratory; Honorary Consultant Microbiologist; Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK |
| Michael Payne, MD, FRCPC, DTMH | Medical Microbiologist, Providence Health Care, Vancouver, BC; Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UBC, Vancouver, BC |
| Katherine Plewes, BSc, MSc, MD, DTMH, DPhil, FRCPC | Course Director, Clinical Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, UBC, Vancouver BC |
| Wingfield Rehmus, MD, MPH, FAAD | Clinical Associate Professor, Division of Pediatric Dermatology, BC Children’s Hospital, Vancouver BC |
| Manish Sadarangani, BM, BCh, FRCPC, DPhil | Associate Professor, Pediatric Infectious Diseases, UBC; Director, Vaccine Evaluation Center, BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute; Sauder Family Chair in Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Vancouver BC |
| Laura Sauvé, MD, MPH, DTMH, FRCPC | Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, UBC; Pediatric Infectious Diseases Specialist, BC Children’s Hospital & Oak Tree Clinic, BC Women’s Hospital, Vancouver BC; Medical lead (C&W), Infection Control, Provincial Health Services Authority |
| Inna Sekirov, MD, PhD, D(ABMM), FRCPC | Medical Microbiologist & Program Head, TB/Mycobacteriology Laboratory, BC Centre for Disease Control Public Health Laboratory, Provincial Health Services Authority, Vancouver, BC |
* This list reflects information as at January 15, 2024 and any changes will be reflected in an updated listing.