Travel Health – Preparing Your Patients to Travel Abroad Safely

CAN-eng

$0

free

CCCEP

45 min

Travel Medicine

0.75 Credits

Course Description

As international travel resumes, pharmacists have an increasingly important role in protecting Canadian travellers from travel-related illnesses.

This program will help pharmacists make pre-travel health recommendations and advise patients on appropriate prevention strategies to reduce the risks of common travel-related diseases (i.e. travellers’ diarrhea, hepatitis A&B, typhoid, and rabies) and to prevent mosquito-borne diseases during travel.


This program has received financial support and an unrestricted educational grant from Valneva

Course Details

Expiry Date: 2022-11-02

Professions: Pharmacy

Faculty

Michael Boivin, RPh

Kelly Haggerty, BScPhm, CTH, NCMP

Aisha Khatib, MD, CCFP (EM), CTravMed, DTM&H, CTropMed

Accreditation

Learning Objective(s)

Upon completion of this continuing education program, participants will be better able to:

  • Make pre-travel health recommendations based on the patient’s medical history, travel destination, and travel itinerary.
  • Implement prevention strategies to reduce the risks of common travel-related diseases.
  • Provide an overview of common mosquito-borne diseases and how to prevent them during travel.
  • Identify travellers requiring a referral to a travel medicine specialist or travel clinic.