Tropical Medicine Abroad - Course with WEx
Introduction to Tropical Medicine Course, with Work Experience in Sri Lanka
Our Tropical medicine course and work experience placement in Sri Lanka provides both a theoretical and practical introduction to tropical diseases. This program is managed by GAFV and delivered through the University of Rajarata and Anuradhapura teaching hospital. It covers neglected tropical diseases, as well as snakebite and poisoning from plants. Sri Lanka, a tropical and sub-tropical region, as well as a low-income and low-resource developing country, is characterized by a unique set of health challenges, that its universal free healthcare and public health education meet effectively. Malaria has been successfully eliminated, (2016), along with lymphatic filariasis (2016), and has significantly reduced the rates of rabies with the aim of eliminating rabies from Sri Lanka are testament to its effective public health programs. Leprosy, officially eliminated from Sri Lanka in 1995, has like Dengue fever, which was first confirmed in Sri Lanka in 1962, recorded rising numbers of cases annual cases since those dates.
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) recommends that some of those healthcare professionals interested in joining them undergo specialized training in tropical medicine, and as access to these courses is limited, then our tropical medicine course with work experience could support applications by health professionals to join tropical medicine courses such as those offered at the LSTM, and LSHTM
Tropical Medicine for volunteer Doctors in Sri Lanka
for observerships and licenced Doctors
Location: Anuradhapura
Weeks: 2 - 12
Code: SL _TM _WEx
Project overview:
Our tropical medicine placement in Sri Lanka is for qualified practitioners seeking work experience, either for ‘relevant professional experience’ to support applications for acceptance onto course such as the PTDN, and DTN, and for those who have completed the PTDN and PTDMH offered at such institutions as the LSHTM, and LSTM.
Our linked university provides a 7 day course in neglected tropical diseases alongside your placement (depending on schedule), and you practice at the main hospital, which hosts a number of clinical departments including tropical medicine, as well as at the cottage hospitals serving the rural areas, where snake bites occur more frequently, particularly during harvesting, though these numbers are falling as less people work the land and harvesting becomes mechanized.
We look forward to welcoming you in Anuradhapura
“Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he… recovered.”
- Leo Tolstoy -