Postgraduate Certificate – Tropical Medicine and International Health

About

Are you a health professional interested in tropical medicine and international health, and you want to strengthen your clinical and research skills or to sow the seeds of your future academic career, including a Master or PhD training? Then this postgraduate certificate is for you

Course leader

Deogratias Katsuva, Sami Alcedo

Target group

This postgraduate certificate is for clinicians. Applicants must be holder of a university degree in medicine.

Course aim

This postgraduate certificate programme consists of three short courses:
- Research Approaches in International Health
- Challenges in International Health
- Tropical Medicine and Clinical Decision Making

The “Research Approaches in International Health” course focuses on different research approaches and their challenges. The course will provide you with the basic skills needed to apply descriptive epidemiology and inferential statistics, to visualise and interpret quantitative data and to recognise the value and good practices of a qualitative research approach. In addition, the course develops your competence to critically appraise research approaches (e.g. ethics, study design, methods and conclusions) and to interpret results in the scientific literature.

The “Challenges in International Health” course will provide you with a good understanding of the complex picture of health challenges globally in general and in deprived, vulnerable settings in particular. Through case studies from various settings, you will analyse the social, anthropological, political, economic and ecological determinants of health, and address health problems from different perspectives including disease control, health service organisation and health policies. You will gain understanding of the complexity of health challenges and learn how to develop, implement, and evaluate health interventions and formulate communication strategies. The course will give you both the theoretical and practical toolsets you need to advance your career.

The "Tropical Medicine and Clinical Decision Making" course focuses on descriptive pathology, laboratory practices and clinical decision-making adapted to low-resource settings and tropical district hospitals. This specialised clinical course is primarily designed for medical doctors who have no or little professional experience in (low-resource) tropical settings, who wish to work in reference labs, academic/research institutions and with health actors (NGOs) in the South.

The sessions are from Monday to Friday on campus.

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