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Travel Counseling for Primary Care

Total Credits: .75 including .75 AOA Category 1-A Credit(s)

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State Associations:
GOMA - Georgia
Faculty:
Shirley Sharp DO
Duration:
51 Minutes
Expiration:
Never Expires.
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Description

With increased international travel and migration, it is very important that family physicians are able to counsel and potentially manage issues related to diseases as a result of travel and prevention strategies. This is not widely taught in primary care. https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/page/yellowbook-home

Learning Objectives:

  1. Identify basic pre-travel evaluation to help identify risk factors based on geographical areas traveling patients are visiting.
  2. Analyze management and prevention of potential infections traveling patients may be exposed to overseas.
  3. Evaluate treatment and prophylactic options for common traveler’s infections.
  4. Assess preventative safety travel tools for traveling patients.
  5. Use principles of managing the patient as a whole, considering prevention of tropical diseases, while considering traveling conditions and activities. 
     
Accreditation Statement:
The Georgia Osteopathic Medical Association is accredited by the American Osteopathic Association to provide osteopathic continuing medical education for physicians. The Georgia Osteopathic Medical Association designates this program for a maximum of .75 AOA Category 1-A credits and will report CME and specialty credits commensurate with the extent of the physician’s participation in this activity.
 
Conflict of Interest Statement:
Shirley Sharp, DO, has no conflicts for this presentation. 

Grievance Policy
All grievances may be directed to GOMA's Executive Director at gomaosteo@outlook.com. All grievances will receive an initial response within 30 days of receipt.  If the participant does not receive a satisfactory response, they can submit a complaint to the Bureau of Osteopathic Education of the AOA at 142 East Ontario Street, Chicago, IL 60611.

Handouts

Travel Preparation for Primary Care physicians (12 MB) 35 Pages Available after Purchase

Faculty

Shirley Sharp DO Related Seminars and Products

Dr. Sharp is originally from Bogota, Colombia and moved to the United States to earn her bachelors at Georgia State University in 2007, she then attended the Georgia campus of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and earned her master’s in biomedical sciences in 2008 as well as her Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine in 2014. She completed a combined residency in Family Practice and Emergency Medicine at Jefferson Health Northeast in Philadelphia PA in 2019.

She worked as a family physician in Philadelphia for several years and worked for 3 years as an emergency medicine physician in New Jersey and Tennessee during the COVID pandemic before returning to Family Medicine at Wellstar-MCG.

She is currently the associate program director and director of Osteopathic education of the Department of Family and Community Medicine. She actively participates in resident education in the department as well as medical student education through the DCFM clinic and the medical school through Patient Centered Learning simulation education.  

She is a fellow of the American College of Osteopathic Medicine (ACOFP) where she has participated for several years as a lecturer and Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment (OMT) trainer.

She enjoys mentoring future and current physicians and volunteers as a specialty chair for family medicine for the Latino medical student association and through the Women in Medicine and Science society (WMS).  

She spent several years traveling to El Salvador to provide medical care to communities in need prior to the COVID pandemic and gained experience in underserved and marginalized medicine.

Her interests include OMT, tropical and travel medicine and support of underrepresented minorities in medicine.  She is happily married and is mom to a tireless daughter and a 4-legged child. 

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