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The objective of the Course is to prepare physicians for professional tasks in tropical and subtropical countries and to enable them to preventively care for visitors of warm climates, to diagnose and to treat imported tropical diseases and perform the relevant consultations.
Teaching concentrates on the pathogenesis, diagnosis, clinical entities, treatment, epidemiology, and prophylaxis of the parasitic, bacterial, viral and non-transmissible diseases of tropical countries. Addressed are the biology, epidemiology, and control of the causative agents, vectors and reservoirs. Additional topics include the characteristics of the various clinical disciplines in the tropical environment, problems of private and public health care in poor countries as well as structures and performance of developmental cooperation and disaster missions in medicine.
The central topic of the Course are human diseases characteristic for tropical climates. The curriculum is divided into twelve sections of one week each. Clinical differential diagnosis is the major guideline for the curriculum because most of the participants are practicing physicians. Taxonomy is the second criterion in order to facilitate systematic learning. Entomology is considered in its relation to the etiology and transmission of disease and therefore follows clinical classifications. Malaria because of its outstanding relevance is regarded as a separate topic.
The following curriculum is accepted by the German Federal Board of
Physicians to be part of the official training programme for physicians
to specialize in tropical medicine.
| Week 1: | Introductions and essentials, incl. principles
in epidemiology, health sciences etc.
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| Week 2: | Systemic infections 1: Malaria incl. entomology,
laboratory methods, exercises etc.
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| Week 3: | Systemic infections 2: Viral and bacterial infections
incl. entomology, laboratory methods, exercises etc.
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| Week 4: | Systemic infections 2: Other protozoal diseases,
systemic mycoses incl. entomology, laboratory methods,exercises etc.
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| Week 5: | Intestinal diseases by protozoa, bacteria and
viruses incl. laboratory methods, exercises etc.
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| Week 6: | Helminthic infections incl. entomology, laboratory
methods, exercises etc.
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| Week 7: | Skin diseases, ophthalmology, malignancies in
the tropics, etc.
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| Week 8: | Specific problems in certain disciplines incl.
venereal diseases incl. HIV infection, tuberculosis, neurology and psychiatry,
etc.
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| Week 9: | incl. paediatrics, malnutrition, mother-child-care,reproductive
health, vaccination programmes, etc.
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| Week 10: | Public health, planning, financing, and implementation
of health projects etc.
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| Week 11: | Epidemiology and control, hereditary diseases,
etc.
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| Week 12: | Differential diagnosis and rehearsels. |
1998 Course on Tropical Medicine and Medical Parasitology
Photographer: Klaus Jürries
The Course starts out with one week of introductions reaching from the technics of microscopy and fundamental immunology to basic epidemiology. In weeks 2 through 4, systemic febrile infections are dealt with, which are ordered according to relevance, clinical similarities and taxonomic aspects. They are followed by intestinal infections in week 5 and skin diseases in week 7, in between in week 6 helminth infections, which often share the hallmark of eosinophilia and primarily affect the intestine or the skin. In weeks 8 and 9, tropical peculiarities of the established medical disciplines are presented such as those in neurology, surgery, and gynaecology, and in weeks 10 and 11 specific problems in epidemiology, public health and developmental cooperation are being discussed. Week 12 contains summaries of clinical entities and exercises, and week 13 practical and theoretical examinations and celebrations.
Teaching is offered daily from 9 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. A total of 300 lessons are given, accompanied by 45 hours of practical, mostly microscopic exercises. Approximately 50 patients with tropical diseases are presented and discussed. In addition, the German reference library for literature on tropical medicine is available for private studies.
The Course of the year 1998 was held from April 1st to June 30th. Sixty
physicians, veterinarians, and biologists participated, and 57 participants
received diplomas.
Institute Faculty
Dr. Barbara Bröker
Privatdozent Dr. Gerd D. Burchard
Professor Dr. Dietrich W. Büttner
Dr. Joachim Clos
Professor Dr. Manfred Dietrich
Dr. Frank Ebert
Professor Dr. Bernhard Fleischer
Professor Dr. Rolf Garms
Dr. Annette Gelhaus
Dr. Ch. Hamelmann
Dr. Achim Hörauf
Dr. Thomas Hoppe
Professor Dr. Rolf Horstmann
Dr. Thomas Kruppa
Privatdozent Dr. Matthias Leippe
Professor Dr. Paul Racz
Professor Dr. Herbert Schmitz
Professor Dr. Justus Schottelius
Dr. Hinrich Sudeck
Privatdozent Dr. Egbert Tannich
Professor Dr. Rolf Walter
Guest Faculty
Dr. R. Bialek
Institut für Tropenmedizin
Keplerstr. 15
72074 Tübingen
Professor Dr.med. U. Bienzle
Institut für Tropenmedizin
Berlin
Spandauer Damm 130
14050 Berlin
Dr. M. Bodio
Schweizerishces Tropeninstitut
Socinstr. 57
CH-4002 Basel
Professor Dr. med. H. J. Diesfeld
Institut für Tropenhygiene
und Öffentliches
Gesundheitswesen, Universität
Heidelberg
Im Neuenheimer Feld 324, 69120 Heidelberg
Professor Dr. med. H. Ebert
Hafen- und Flughafenärztlicher
Dienst
Großmannstraße 10, 20539
Hamburg
Dr. Chr. Eggers
Universitätsklinik Eppendorf
Neurologische Klinik
Martinistraße 52, 20246 Hamburg
Dr. E. Hackenbruch
"Ärzte ohne Grenzen"
Adenauerallee 50, 53113 Bonn
Dr. med. M. G. Hartmann
Bardal 15, 21227 Bendestorf
Gertrud Helling-Giese
Am Weidenbach 41
50676 Köln
Dr. med. C. Herlt-Wolff
Mühlenkamp 1, 21397 Barendorf
Dr. Chr. Heuschkel
Hoheneckstraße 55, 81243 München
Dr. med. K. Hoffmann
Zentrum für Psychiatrie, Landeskrankenhaus
78477 Reichenau
Dr. R. Hofmeier
Institut für Afrika-Kunde
Neuer Jungfernstieg 21, 20354 Hamburg
Professor Dr. med. R. Hubmann
Urologische Abteilung, Allgemeines
Krankenhaus St. Georg
Lohmühlenstraße 5, 20099
Hamburg
Dr. med. Helmut Jäger
Deutscher Entwicklungsdienst (DED),
Ärztlicher Dienst
Kladower Damm 299, 14089 Berlin
Dr. med. T. Junghanns
Schweizerisches Tropeninstitut
Socinstraße 57, CH-4002 Basel
Professor Dr. med. V. Klauß
Augenklinik der Universität
München
Mathildenstraße 8, 80336 München
Dr. jur. B. Koch
Berufsgenossenschaft der Chemischen
Industrie
Stolberger Straße 86, 50933
Köln
Dr. Bernd Köhler
Missionsärztliche Klinik
Salvatorstraße 7, 97074 Würzburg
Privatdozent Dr. med. R. Korte
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische
Zusammenarbeit (GTZ)
Dag-Hammarskjöld-Weg 1, 65760
Eschborn
Professor Dr. M. Krawinkel
Institut für Ernährungswissenschaft
Wilhelmstr. 20
35390 Gießen
Dr. med. H. Kretschmer
Tropenklinik, Paul-Lechler-Krankenhaus
Paul-Lechler-Straße 24, 72076
Tübingen
Dr. med. G. von Laer
Auswärtiges Amt/Gesundheitsdienst
Tempelstraße 17, 53113 Bonn
Dr. Ph. Langenscheidt
Chirurgishce Universitätsklinik
Oscar-Orth-Str.
66424 Homburg/Saar
Professor Dr. med. R. Laufs
Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie
der
Universität Hamburg, Martinistraße
52, 20251 Hamburg
Dr. J. van Lunzen
Universitätsklinik Eppendorf
Martinistraße 52, 20246 Hamburg
Dr. Mattner
Frauenklinik Finkenau
Finkenau 35, 22339 Hamburg
Professor Dr. W. Meigel
Abteilung Dermatologie, Allgemeines
Krankenhaus St. Georg
Lohmühlenstraße 5, 20099
Hamburg
Dr. A. Plettenberg
Abteilung Dermatologie, Allgemeines
Krankenhaus St. Georg
Lohmühlenstraße 5, 20099
Hamburg
Dr. med. J. Richter
Institut für Tropenmedizin
Engeldamm 62-64, 10179 Berlin
Frau Dr. Rüsch-Gerdes
Forschungszentrum Borstel
Parkallee 1-40, 23845 Borstel
Professor Dr. Erich Schmutzhard
Neurologische Intensivstation, Universitätsklinik
für Neurologie, Anichstraße
35, A-6020 Innsbruck
Professor Dr. R. Schwarz
Institut für Geographie
Bundesstraße 55, 20146 Hamburg
Dr. Stark
Institut für Tropenmedizin
Spandauer Damm 130, 14050 Berlin
Dr. G. Strote
Schitag Ernst & Young Unternehmensberatung
70476 Stuttgart
Dr. med. Klara Tenner-Racz
Hämatologische Abt., Allgemeines
Krankenhaus St. Georg
Lohmühlenstraße 5, 20099
Hamburg
Dr. med. K.-J. Volkmer
Klecker Weg 5, 21244 Buchholz
Dr. R. Wabitsch
Joint Medical Service
WHO
20, Avenue Appia
CH-1211 Genf 27
Professor Dr. O. Wassermann
Universität Kiel, Medizinische
Fakultät
Brunswiker Straße 10, 24105
Kiel
Professor Dr. S. Wassilew
Stäst. Krankenhaus
Abt. Dermatologie
Lutherplatz 40
47805 Krefeld
