This ACPE-accredited continuing pharmacy education program in International Travel Medicine has been designed to assist pharmacists in expanding their knowledge and skills related to improving care provided to patients traveling internationally. The pharmacist is in a unique position to help patients traveling abroad to fully prepare them by recommending appropriate immunizations, medications, and over the counter products, as well as to provide them with travel advice.
Target Audience
Pharmacists with an interest in providing travel health services that have preferably completed an immunization training program
Benefits for Patients and Pharmacists
- Optimal pre-travel health clinic preparation
- Preparation to sit for the international certificate examination
- Compensation for services on a fee-for-service basis
Components
The certificate program consists of:
- Home Study Program (15 hours, 1.50 CEUs) – Knowledge-Based Activity
Registrants will be emailed the web addresses and instructions for the required presentations and reading materials, as well as a 68-item pre-test and post-test; the minimum passing score is set at 75% for the post-test.
Credit
Earn 15 hours of continuing education credit
Cost
$400
Home Study Pre-recorded Online Modules
(approximately 30-60 minutes each)
- Module 1 Course Intro, Travel Mortality, Levels of Care
- Module 2 Epidemiology, Man, Microbes, and the Environment
- Module 3 Immunizations – Principles and Emergency Management
- Module 4 Immunizations – Documentation and Storage
- Module 5 Food and Water Precautions
- Module 6 Traveler’s Diarrhea
- Module 7 Other Diseases Spread by Food and Water
- Module 8 Diseases Spread by Person to Person I – Prevention, Pneumonia, Flu
- Module 9 Diseases Spread by Person to Person II –MMR, VZV, TB
- Module 10 Diseases Spread by Person to Person III – Meningitis, Diphtheria/Pertussis, STD, Hep B/C, Ebola
- Module 11 Vector Borne Diseases I – Preventative Measures
- Module 12 Vector Borne Diseases II – Malaria
- Module 13 Vector Borne Diseases III –Dengue, CHK, YF, JE, Ticks, Zika, Filariasis
- Module 14 Vector Borne Disease IV – Leishmaniasis, African Tryp, Oncho, Plague
- Module 15 Environmental Aspects – Jet Lag and Motion Sickness
- Module 16 Environmental Aspects – Aircraft Cabin Environment and VTE
- Module 17 Environmental Aspects – Altitude Heat and Cold
- Module 18 Environmental Contact (Schistosomiasis, Leptospirosis, Legionella, CLM, Tetanus)
- Module 19 Bites Stings Envenomations
- Module 20 Special Needs Traveler
- Module 21 Travel Health and Medical Kits, Traveling with Medications
- Module 22 Safety Security and Medical Care Overseas
- Module 23 Pre-Travel Consultation – Travel History Form Review
- Module 24 Pre-Travel Consultation – Informatics
- Module 25 Pre-Travel Consultation- Risk Assessment and Management
- Module 26 Travel Health Clinic Implementation
- Module 27 Diseases of the Returned Traveler
At the completion of this activity, the participant will be able to:
- Describe the concept and practice of travel medicine and pre-travel health
- Recognize factors associated with global climate change that affect travel risks
- Describe basic principles of epidemiology and interpretation of epidemiologic data
- Select from various electronic commercial and non-commercial resources that are necessary to evaluate a traveler’s risk of disease
- Describe the essential elements of the pre-travel consultation
- Describe elements of effective risk communication
- Compare the epidemiology, pathophysiology, and methods of prevention of specific vaccine-preventable travel-related illnesses
- Compare the epidemiology, pathophysiology, and methods of prevention of specific non-vaccine-preventable travel-related illnesses
- Compare the epidemiology, pathophysiology, and methods of prevention of non-infectious travel-related illnesses
- Discuss the travel health issues specific to special populations
- Discuss principles of immunization
- Differentiate between routine, required, and recommended immunizations
- Apply knowledge of patient-specific variables and travel-related illnesses to appropriately assess risks for travelers
- Discuss treatment approaches to self-treatable conditions for international travelers
- Outline essential counseling points for travelers with respect to personal safety, security, injury prevention, and crime avoidance
- Determine the need for treatment and/or referral for a returned traveler based on travel history, presentation, disease characteristics
- Describe collaborative practice regulations regarding travel health services within pharmacist scope of practice in your state
- Create a plan for implementing a practice in travel medicine including protocol, policy & procedures, and methods of compensation