COURSE LENGTH:
Two Weeks

ID NUMBER:
USAF Course Number: B30ZY48X0-000

REGISTRATION FEE:
None

COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Course Objectives: The global medicine course is a continuing medical education program designed to train operational physicians as well as other medical personnel (the latter with course supervisor approval) to identify and plan for the infectious diseases and environmental conditions of medical and military significance worldwide. The course emphasis is for the physician to be able to successfully design and implement a plan which minimizes the health risk of the endemic natural biologic hazards to a deploying or deployed force. In order to achieve this objective, lectures in epidemiology, deployment preparation, medical intelligence sources, and many infectious diseases are presented. Hands-on laboratories on computer access to medical intel sources, malaria and intestinal parasite diagnosis and screening, and field epidemiology will be conducted. A practical group exercise (medical estimate of the situation) and a passing grade on the written final exam are required for course completion.

PREREQUISITES:
This is a physician directed, operationally oriented course. As such, the target audience includes officers or governmental medical personnel directly involved in deployment and/or travel medicine, preventive medicine, epidemiology, and patient care of military forces and personnel of governmental agencies.

SPONSOR:
U.S. Air Force, Brooks AFB, TX, USACHPPM, Residency Program

REMARKS:
CME Accreditation Statements: The office of the Surgeon General, United States Air Force, has designated this educational activity for a maximum of "60" hours in category 1 credit towards the AMA Physicians Recognition Award. Participation in all lectures and labs is necessary for course completion and CME credit. Partial credit is awarded only in exceptional cases (e.g. deployment) and must be approved by the course director.

This activity has been jointly planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Ancillary Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) by the Office of the Surgeon General, United States Air Force and the USAF School of Aerospace Medicine. The Office of the Surgeon General, United States Air Force is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians and takes responsibility for the content, quality and scientific integrity of this program.

The course has also been approved by the American Board of Preventive Medicine (ABPM) as a Lifelong Learning Module for Preventive Medicine recertification.

 

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