Tropical Medicine Information
Tropical medicine is the branch of medicine that deals with health problems that occur uniquely, are more widespread, or prove more difficult to control in tropical and subtropical regions.
Many infections and infestations that are classified as "tropical diseases" used to be endemic in countries located in temperate or even cold areas. Examples of such diseases include leprosy, cholera, malaria, polio, measles, hookworm infestation, and amoebiasis, among others. Many of these diseases have been controlled or even eliminated from developed countries, as a result of improvements in housing, diet, sanitation, and personal hygiene. Since climate is not the main reason why those infections remain endemic in tropical areas, there is a trend towards renaming this speciality as "Geographic Medicine" or "Third World Medicine."[citation needed]
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Training
The training in Tropical Medicine is quite different between countries. Most doctors are trained at Institutes of Tropical Medicine. For example, the training of Dutch tropical doctors consists of two clinical years (Obstetrics & Gynecology, Paediatrics or General Surgery) and a three months course at the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) in Amsterdam.
Recently, the government of Bangladesh established the Institute of Tropical and Infectious Diseases in the port city of Chittagong.
Bibliography
- Jonathan Kaplan. The dressing station, a surgeon's oddysey. Picador, London, 2001.
- Anne Spoerry. Mama Daktari. The house of books, Vianen, 2000.
See also
- American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH)
- Anton Breinl Centre for Public Health and Tropical Medicine
- Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine
- Disaster medicine
- Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
- Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
- London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
- Prince Leopold Institute of Tropical Medicine - Antwerp, Belgium
- Research Institute for Tropical Medicine - Philippines
- Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
- The Australasian College of Tropical Medicine
- Travel medicine
- Tropical disease
External links
- The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
- Anton Breinl Centre for Public Health and Tropical Medicine - Australia
- Asia-Pacific Institute of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases
- The Australasian College of Tropical Medicine
- The Bangkok School of Tropical Medicine
- Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
- Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine-India
- Institute of Tropical Medicine - Serbia
- Institute of Tropical Medicine - Belgium
- Royal Tropical Institute - The Netherlands
- Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
- Doctors without borders
- Doctors of the World
- Tropical Disease and Medications Conditions
- Medair
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