July/August 2009

Contents - July/August 2009

• ISTM News
  Attend the 4th Regional Conference of the ISTM (RCISTM4) in Miami, March 9-12, 2010. The Conference will be conducted jointly as the II Congreso Latinoamericano de Medicina del Viajero and take place just before and during the 14th International Congress on Infectious Diseases. Hope to see you there.
• ISTM Committee Reports
  • Training and Education in Travel Health
    Interested in further training and education in travel medicine? This list has twenty programs in seven countries.
  • Professional Education
    Future issues of NewShare will provide a new feature, JournalWatch, an annotated bibliography of new and noteworthy travel health articles from peer-reviewed journals other than JTM.
  • Publications
    The impact factor for Journal of Travel Medicine has risen from 1.048 to 1.492!, an outstanding achievement... The first Expert Reviews of Evidence Bases for Clinical Practice have been published.
  • Examination and Certification
    The Certificate in Travel Health^TM (CTH^®) exam in Budapest attracted 232 candidates... The exam will now be given annually.
  • Journal of Travel Medicine
    The time required to process manuscripts has been substantially shortened... Two new programs, Early View and Fast Track, will further shorten the time. Two Expert of Evidence Bases for Clinical Practice have been published, both about traveler's diarrhea. A third one, on measures against mosquito bites will follow shortly.
• Expert Opinion Case
  A 38-year-old female presents to your office with a positive tuberculin skin test (TST) of 12 mm at 48 hours. She was born in Mexico and had Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccination in childhood. She is opening a home daycare center.
• Travel Medicine News
  • ISTM Pharmacist Professional Group Organizes
    Pharmacists, along with, physicians and nurses, are the third major professional group.
  • First Travel Medicine Textbook in Hungarian.