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CME Activity
Management of adolescents and adults with febrile illness in resource limited areas
Course Directors
William D. Carey, MD
Director, Center for Continuing Education
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio
Kirsten Patrick
Assistant Editor, British Medical Journal, London
Faculty
John A Crump
Associate professor of medicine and pathology,
Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health,
Department of Medicine, and Department of Pathology,
Duke University, Durham, NC;
Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University, Durham, NC;
Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, Moshi, Tanzania;
Kilimanjaro Christian Medical College, Tumaini University, Moshi, Tanzania
Sandy Gove
Team leader,
Integrated Management of Adolescent and Adult Illness (IMAI),
World Health Organization, Department of HIV/AIDS,
Geneva, Switzerland
Christopher M Parry
Senior clinical consultant,
Wellcome Trust Major Overseas Programme,
Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit,
Bangkok, Thailand;
Angkor Hospital for Children, Siem Reap, Cambodia
Accredited by
BMJ Learning
Course Description
Learning outcomes:
1) Recognise which febrile adult and adolescent patients can be treated adequately at a first level healthcare facility and which patients should be referred to a higher level health facility; 2) Name the barriers to making an aetiological diagnosis in a patient with a febrile illness in a resource limited setting; 3) Recognise the advantages and limitations of treating patients with empirical antimicrobial therapy; 4) Outline the ways in which local epidemiological data may be acquired and used to inform local management guidelines for patients with febrile illness in a resource limited setting.
Activity Details
| Credit Types: | CME |
| Credit Amount: | 1.0 Credits |
| Release Date: | 2011-Aug-03 |
| Expiration Date: | 2012-Aug-03 |
| Estimated Time for Completion: | 1 hour |
| Registration Required: | Yes |
| Cost: | £81/yr |
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