PMO 992 Travel Clinic Practicum
This course is an optional clinical practicum course for students who are taking or who have taken PMO 990 Travel Medicine. It demonstrates and teaches best practices in counseling pre-travel patients in a clinical setting. The Travel Clinics at the National Naval Medical Center and the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, and eventually at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, are used to teach the clinical requirements for preparing tourists and business travelers of all ages and health states to travel safely abroad. Students assist scheduled staff physicians in seeing patients in these clinics. A minimum of 6 patient appointments must be seen, with appropriate preparation and follow-up. The expected total time requirement is approximately 12 hours.