MCQs in Travel Medicine

by Dom Colbert

Overview

Specifically written for those preparing for examinations and practitioners in travel medicine, MCQs in Travel Medicine contains over 600 multiple choice questions with detailed explanations which both teach and challenge the reader. Questions are group by topic which is ideal for revision, enabling you to focus on specific areas including adventure travel, travellers' diarrhoea, malaria, sexually transmitted disease, and drugs used in travel medicine. The style and format of the questions mirror the format of the exam questions, and the book includes a self-test to aid revision. This easy-to-read comprehensive book is ideally suited for those in busy day-to-day practices and those preparing for examinations in travel medicine including the Certificate Exam of the International Society of Travel Medicine.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780191641596
Publisher:	OUP Oxford
Publication date:	12/20/2012
Series:	Oxford Specialty Training: Revision Texts
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Dom Colbert has worked extensively in Africa, the Far East and the Caribbean in a voluntary capacity in mission hospitals and has served in many famines and disasters. In 1977 Dom founded the VSA (Voluntary Service Abroad) so that medical electives could work in poor countries. As part of the College of Surgeons of East, Central and Southern Africa (COSECA) he regularly teaches basic science to trainee surgeons and future trainers in that continent. He co-founded the Travel Medicine Society of Ireland and was on the exam board of the International Society of Travel Medicine. Dom regularly delivers lectures at national and international conferences, including delivering grand rounds at the Mayo Clinic in 2009 and delivering the inaugural Eric Walker lecture to the Northern European Conference on Travel Medicine in 2012. He is also an examiner in primary FRCSI and/or Medical students, Benghazi, Kuwait, Khartoum and Dar es Salaam.

Table of Contents

Section 1: Setting up a Travel Clinic
Section 2: Epidemiological and Geographical Considerations
Section 3: Selected Arthropods
Section 4: Common Gastrointestinal Worms
Section 5: Vaccines
Section 6: Pre-Travel Consultation
Section 7: Protecting the Skin
Section 8: Special Groups
Section 9: Adventure Travellers
Section 10: Special Activities
Section 11: Fish Hazards
Section 12: Air Travel
Section 13: Medical Care Overseas
Section 14: Specific Medical Risks for the Traveller
Section 15: Selected Medical Risks in the Tropics
Section 16: The Returned Traveller
Section 17: Psychiatric and Behavioural Problems
Section 18: Drugs and Travel
Section 19: Self-Test
Appendix