Introduction to Travel Health

The Trainer:

Cathy O’Malley RGN FFTM RCPS(Glasg) is a Travel Health Nurse Specialist with 14 years clinical experience in a travel clinic. She has a Travel medicine diploma and is a Fellow of the Faculty of Travel Medicine at the Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons Glasgow. She is an experienced trainer and is passionate about travel medicine and passing her knowledge on to others.

Course content:

• The travel consultation

• Tools and resources

• Risk assessment

• Vaccine preventable diseases

• Non-vaccine preventable diseases

• Other health risks

• Case studies and scheduling of vaccines

• Legal aspects and responsibilities of the travel health practitioner

• Malaria

• Mosquito borne diseases

• The complex traveller

• FGM & the travel consultation

• Covid-19 & advising travellers