For those following the FACTM pt 1 series, the next instalment is just around the corner, if you’re planning your diary for next week. The face-to-face session will take place at the later time of 7:30am next Tuesday (25th May) in the ED seminar room at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, and will run for an hour in its usual two topic format.
Next week’s session is open to junior medical staff and there will be a light breakfast as usual. The MicroGnome apologises for not having the unit notes ready in time for this post, owing to an encounter with arboviruses in Queensland earlier this week. He assures you that the lecture material will meet the usual standard, and was inspired by recent fieldwork in tropical Australia.
Tuesday’s units will cover Leptospirosis, Melioidosis and Scrub Typhus; three infections prevalent in the Australian tropics. Reading for this unit includes:
- Leptospirosis – Oxford Handbook of Tropical Medicine p694
- Manson’s Tropical Diseases p1161 ff;
- Melioidosis – Oxford Handbook p700, Manson p1127 ff
- Scrub Typhus – Oxford Handbook p687, Manson p 885 ff.
