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Travel Medicine<br />

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Scholarship<br />

<strong>The</strong> GP will demonstrate the ability to:<br />

• undertake further education in travel medicine<br />

• educate or encourage education of practice staff on travel<br />

medicine consultations, as appropriate<br />

• keep comprehensive notes on travel consultations to<br />

ensure all risks are covered<br />

• record accurate details of immigration medical<br />

consultations.<br />

Context of <strong>General</strong> <strong>Practice</strong><br />

<strong>The</strong> GP will demonstrate the ability to:<br />

• balance the risks and benefits <strong>for</strong> families/whānau visiting<br />

relations in overseas countries with <strong>New</strong> <strong>Zealand</strong>-born<br />

children<br />

• discuss the cost versus benefit of travel medicine<br />

preventive measures<br />

• recognise who are the local general practitioners and<br />

other health professionals with interests and skills in<br />

travel medicine and refer where necessary<br />

• establish a working relationship with an infectious<br />

diseases consultant or microbiologist in the local or<br />

regional area <strong>for</strong> discussion on presentations that require<br />

their input.<br />

Management<br />

<strong>The</strong> GP will demonstrate the ability to:<br />

• describe and maintain ‘cold chain’ processes in the<br />

practice<br />

• consider the implications <strong>for</strong> the practice community of<br />

communicable diseases that may have been brought in<br />

from overseas.<br />

This curriculum statement links with:<br />

• Gastroenterology - Page 73<br />

www.rnzcgp.org.nz<br />

<strong>Curriculum</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>General</strong> <strong>Practice</strong><br />

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