CME: Global Health and Tropical Medicine
Training 2024
Global Health and Tropical Medicine Course (GHTM):
Learn the basics of practicing tropical medicine in low-resource settings
CHSC’s Global Health and Tropical Medicine Course (GHTM) course provides an overview of diagnosing and treating tropical diseases in a case-based format, using the application of evidence-based best practices.
Our tropical medicine course faculty have decades of combined experience practicing in low-resource settings. Students will learn necessary skills for short- and long-term global health work.
Course conducted virtually over Zoom and is spread over eight weeks, with 1-2 sessions per week.
July 9 - August 13, 2024
CHSC continuing education courses are offered at no cost to CHSC healthcare professionals and active CHSC volunteers serving with the CHSC Reserve Corps.
Course Faculty
Our course faculty collectively have decades of experience practicing and improving the quality of care in low-resource settings around the world.
Course Facilitator: Dr. Sarah Pruitt
Sarah Pruitt
PHd, do, mcs
Sarah is a board-certified ER physician who graduated from the Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine and then completed residency training at the Geisinger Health System in Danville, PA in 2011. She was awarded her PhD from Virginia Tech in Health Promotion with an emphasis on international health and completed her dissertation on HIV awareness and education in El Salvador in 2009. She has worked extensively around the world in low resource settings and has been a part of medical care in over 20 different countries, having engaged in several disaster responses including natural disasters and infectious outbreaks. She spent the last 6 years serving and working at the Hospital of Hope in Togo, West Africa as a staff physician. She has completed her Masters in Disaster Healthcare from the University of South Wales and has a passion to see high-quality care delivered, regardless of the setting. Her goal is to elevate the care that mission hospitals deliver through this new partnership with CHSC. “Quality care everywhere is achievable, and we exist to come alongside others to make this a reality. For we are all made in the image of God and what better way to honor that than to strive to deliver the very best care possible in each setting.”
Course Presenters:
Gregory Seager
RN, MSN
Greg holds a master’s in nursing and healthcare leadership from The George Washington University. His graduate thesis project was on patient safety in global health. Greg is a member of the Christian CEO peer group C12. Greg is a frequent keynote speaker on global health and international health development. His book When Healthcare Hurts: An Evidence Based Guide for Best Practices in Global Health Initiatives is the first book to look seriously at the challenges of supporting both patient safety and human dignity in global health volunteer work. It defines evidence-based guidelines through which we can address these issues.
Kelly Frazier
md
Kelly is a US Board Certified Pediatrician who completed training and residency at the University of Louisville. After residency she spent two years in Tsiko, Togo at the Hôpital Baptiste Biblique through Samaritan’s Purse’s Post-Residency program. At the completion of that program, she joined ABWE as a full-time medical missionary to serve at the Hospital of Hope in Mango, Togo. During her nine years in long-term missions she specialized in neonatal care and pediatric cancer care in the Low and Middle-Income Country (LMIC) setting. During this time she was also able to care for people with infectious diseases including Lassa Fever and Ebola. “I want to come alongside medical workers to teach, encourage and equip, so that we can together see quality healthcare reach those most in need, for the honor of Christ and His witness to the nations.”
Course Overview
- Best Evidence-Based Practice in Global Health
- Overview of WHO International Guidelines/ IMCI
- IMCI Approach to Cough/Difficulty Breathing
- IMCI Approach to Diarrhea
- IMCI Approach to Fever
- IMCI Approach to Sick Infants & Well Children
- Overview of World Health Problems & Trop Med
- Newborn Care/ Bubble CPAP
- Introduction to Case-Based Learning
- Sample Tropical Medicine Case
- Neglected Tropical Diseases
- Surgery in the Tropics
- Vaccine-Preventable Diseases-Based
- Ethical Considerations in International Practice
- Pharmacology Considerations in Intl Practice
- Fever in the Tropics
- Tropical Diseases Affecting the Neuro System
- Diagnosis of Malnutrition
- Management of Malnutrition
- Tropical Diseases Affecting the CV System
- Tropical Diseases Affecting the Pulmonary System
- Parasites
- Staying Safe/Traveler’s Health
Course Contact
For questions regarding this course contact us: [email protected]
Phone: 903-962-4000
For questions regarding financials or registration, please contact:
Candi Seager CFO