This 8-hour course covers travel health essentials to help primary care providers confidently conduct basic travel health consultations for non-complex travellers.  

We assume core knowledge on foundation topics such as the immune system, cold chain, informed consent and screening, and so forth. For health professionals without vaccinator qualifications, we strongly recommend you complete our free foundation education course in advance of this course.  

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Note: 'Introduction to travel health' does not replace the need for those who will prescribe travel medicine to complete appropriate post-graduate education.

Also note that the 0800IMMUE phone line does not give specific travel health advice. The course includes other points of contact for specific travel health information.

Registration requirements  

You must:

• be an authorised or pharmacist vaccinator

• have a current annual practicing certificate  

• OR be otherwise involved in the delivery of travel health.

Course content: 

• An overview of travel health
• Setting up for travel health consults
• Travel-health risk assessment
• Safe travel advice
• Vaccine-preventable diseases - National Immunisation Schedule (NIS) and funded vaccines for special groups.
• Vaccine-preventable diseases – travel vaccines available in New Zealand.
• Other relevant infectious diseases
• Scenarios

Assessment

The assessment is a set of 30 multiple choice questions with 60 minutes to complete.

On completion, you can print out a certificate as evidence of learning.

The course provides 8 hours of continuing professional development.