COMMFAM 225C
Travel Medicine at Duke Student Health
Melanie K. Trost
Description from DukeHub
Health education, immunizations, and medications pertinent to the traveler compose a distinct area of medical knowledge that has not been otherwise addressed in the curriculum. The medical student taking this course will review the major infectious illnesses of concern for each travel area. They will be responsible for the medical knowledge base and patient education needs about the mode of transmission and typical presentation of these illnesses, available behavioral intervention prevention methods, available vaccine prevention, options of chemical prophylaxis, and treatment if prevention is not successful. Students cannot take 1-week selective and 4- week elective. Permission of the instructor is required. Staff contact: Gretchen Oakley (contact listed in DukeHub) (contact listed in DukeHub) Meet at 8:30 am first day at Student Health 305 Towerview Dr. Credit: 2. Enrollment max: 1. Melanie Trost, MD (NOTE - Meeting location was added for consistency, ahead of course director's name - will need to be updated in DukeHub.)
Skills
AI-resilient: 2 of 5
- Yes: Physical, lab or field work · clinical rotation
- Yes: Live work with people · "patient"
- No: Judgment someone is accountable for
- No: A craft you practice with your hands or body
- No: Small, in-person format
The checks lean on Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025), which found generative AI applies least to physical work and hands-on work with people. A signal, not a promise. How the score works
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