Travel Medicine for Traveling Patients

Online CME

16.25 AAFP
Prescribed Credits

Access Through
January 23, 2027

This course, formerly known as Travel Medicine Course — Self Study, will enable you to feel more confident offering the most informed immunization and other preventive health guidance and recognizing travel-related diseases in your traveling patients.

This online intensive activity features new recordings designed to help you:

Counsel patients regarding strategies to prevent foodborne illnesses
Create strategies to recognize neglected tropical diseases
Establish management strategies for emerging infections
Establish protocols supporting parents and their newly adopted children

See full list of topics below.

AAFP Member: $525

New Physician: $475
Student or Resident: $345
Other Health Care Professional: $525
Nonmember: $665

Topics with Faculty

A Hot Time in the Old Town: Fever
Mark K. Huntington, M.D., Ph.D., FAAFP

Bumps and Rashes and Ulcers, Oh My! Dermatologic Issues in the Returning Traveler
Sommer Aldulaimi, M.D., FAAFP

Dizzying Heights: In-flight Medical Emergencies
Benjamin Silverberg, M.D., M.S., FAAFP

Ethics of Travel
Mark K. Huntington, M.D., Ph.D., FAAFP; Calvin Wilson, M.D.

Globetrotting in a Pink Bunny Suit: Queer and Solo Female Travel
Benjamin Silverberg, M.D., M.S., FAAFP

Guarding the Gut: Preventing Foodborne Illnesses
Jeff Hall, M.D., FAAFP

Guts and Globetrotting: Navigating GI Distress in the Returning Traveler
Sommer Aldulaimi, M.D., FAAFP

Incidents Abroad I: Safety While Traveling
Mark Shaffer, M.D.

Incidents Abroad II: Getting Help
Mark Shaffer, M.D.

International Adoptions
Brent Burket, M.D., FAAFP

Intro to Care of Returning Travelers — When to Treat, When to Turf
Jeff Hall, M.D., FAAFP

Loneliness and Liquor: Sex and International Travelers
Benjamin Silverberg, M.D., M.S., FAAFP

Long-term Travelers: Diplomats, Missionaries, Business, etc.
Brent Burket, M.D., FAAFP

Malaria
Brent Burket, M.D., FAAFP

Mountains and Oceans: Environmental Hazards
Jeff Hall, M.D., FAAFP

Needles, Nebulizers, Pups and Chairs: Travel With Chronic Conditions
Benjamin Silverberg, M.D., M.S., FAAFP; Patient Voice

On Different Soil: Working Thoughtfully With Refugees
Benjamin Silverberg, M.D., M.S., FAAFP; Fern Hauck, M.D., FAAFP

Other Travel-related Illnesses
Mark Shaffer, M.D.

Stranger in a Strange Land: Primary Care and Travel Medicine
Mark K. Huntington, M.D., Ph.D., FAAFP

The Trip and the Traveler: The Foundation of a Pre-travel Consultation
Jeff Hall, M.D., FAAFP

Travel in The Era of Pandemics
Mark K. Huntington, M.D., Ph.D., FAAFP

Travel Medicine — Translation to Practice^®(T2P)
Mark K. Huntington, M.D., Ph.D., FAAFP

Travel With Children, In Utero or Ex Utero
Brent Burket, M.D., FAAFP

Vaccinations: Safeguarding Travelers From Preventable Threats
Sommer Aldulaimi, M.D., FAAFP

What Else Is Bugging You? Other Vector-borne Diseases
Mark K. Huntington, M.D., Ph.D., FAAFP

*Enhance your patient care today and earn up to 2 additional AAFP Prescribed credits when you complete the Translation to Practice^®(t2p^®) process.

Learning Objectives

At the end of the activity, you will be able to:

Develop protocols to identify destination and patient-specific risk factors for travel, including when to refer for subspecialty consultation.
Construct appropriate behavioral and pharmacological prevention strategies for travel-related infections.
Develop and evaluate an appropriate differential diagnosis for common post-travel complaints.
Create strategies to recognize neglected tropical diseases, including their diagnosis and treatment, and both biological and social determinants contributing to them.
Establish management strategies for emerging infections, including outbreaks and insidious spreading.
Recognize the complementary role of clinical care and public health efforts in attaining health for all.

System Requirements

CME Credit Statement

The AAFP has reviewed Travel Medicine for Traveling Patients and deemed it acceptable for up to 16.25 Enduring Materials, Self-Study AAFP Prescribed credit. Term of Approval is from 1/23/2024 to 1/23/2027. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

The AAFP is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The American Academy of Family Physicians designates this Enduring Materials, Self-Study for a maximum of 16.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

CME activities approved for AAFP credit are recognized by the AOA as equivalent to AOA Category 2 credit.

Following this CME activity, participants will have the opportunity to earn an additional two Prescribed credits for participation in each Translation to Practice^®exercise. Information on Translation to Practice^®will be shared within the activity.

Travel Medicine for Traveling Patients

Online CME

16.25 AAFP
Prescribed Credits

Access Through
January 23, 2027

Topics with Faculty

Learning Objectives

System Requirements

CME Credit Statement

Additional Resources and Education

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Travel Medicine for Traveling Patients

Online CME

16.25 AAFP Prescribed Credits

Access Through January 23, 2027

Topics with Faculty

Learning Objectives

System Requirements

CME Credit Statement

Additional Resources and Education

Already Purchased This Activity?

16.25 AAFP
Prescribed Credits

Access Through
January 23, 2027