Scholarships - Gorgas Course in Clinical Tropical Medicine, 10/01

Learn Tropical Medicine in the Tropics

Sponsored by the Gorgas Memorial Institute and given in Lima, Peru at the Tropical Medicine Institute, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia this unique tropical medicine training initiative combines an international faculty (North America, Peru, Africa) with didactic and formal bedside teaching right in the tropics. 380 contact hours (in English) - 160 formal lecture hours, plus diagnostic laboratory, daily ward rounds on a 36-bed tropical disease unit or daily out-patient clinic, and case conferences.

Two 4-day teaching trips to field clinics in the Andes and Amazon. On-site Education Resource Facility with Internet wired PC's, complete collection of reference texts, teaching slides, WHO/PAHO videos. Targeted towards physicians, and public health professionals interested in tropical medicine and emerging pathogens. Accredited by the University of Alabama School of Public Health and the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

Limited number of full expense scholarships available to individuals who are both nationals of and current residents of developing countries.

Scholarship application deadline is October 15, 2001.

Curriculum, course information, photos, scholarship eligibility requirements, and application forms available only at: http://www.gorgas.org Click on Scholarships mailto:info@gorgas.org

In the past 6 years we have awarded 30 scholarships to physicians from 26 developing countries. Please disseminate as you see fit to colleagues, collaborators, and potential applicants in your own or other countries.

-David Freedman mailto:dfreedman@geomed.dom.uab.edu>