3rd Northern European Conference on Travel Medicine (NECTM), Hamburg 26-29 May 2010
Abstract submission until 19 Feb 2010 www.nectm.com

The programme will include all aspects of travel medicine including the “basics“ such as vaccinations, malaria prophylaxis and travellers diarrhoea – but we will also try to substantiate travel medicine advice on a sound scientific basis and on good epidemiological data. In our opinion, travel medicine in a globalised world also includes migration medicine, occupational medicine and environmental issues. Practitioners giving pre-travel advice also see patients returning with unfamiliar and tropical diseases – differential diagnosis in these travellers will also be an important topic. A special local conference theme will be maritime medicine. Last but not least we think that the conference is a forum to establish standards for training and education in travel medicine.