Component : DFR Health
Domain: Health
Mentions : Tropical Medicine
Nature : Diploma course.
Output level : BAC + 6
Location: Cayenne
Objectives
- Acquire the knowledge needed to care for people/populations living in or coming from tropical or subtropical areas.
- Acquire the knowledge needed to make decisions with a view to public health initiatives.
Target skills
- Knowledge of working in a development context and/or with limited resources.
- Ability to manage infectious diseases in tropical areas
- Ability to manage migrant pathologies
- Ability to take part in setting up and managing projects in a development context and/or with limited resources.
Admission
Access to the DU :
This course is open to :
- Non-medical staff (nurses, nursery nurses) ;
- Midwives ;
- And any other staff with the agreement of the Head of Teaching.
Conditions of admission
Admission is by application.
Registration
Instructions concerning the application procedure are posted on the Université de Guyane website during the annual admissions campaign. Applications and administrative registration are made online via e-candidat.
Programme
This DU will cover the diagnostic and therapeutic aspects of the major syndromes and pathologies frequently encountered in tropical environments. Wherever possible, the teaching approach will be practical, and the presentation will be in the form of a decision tree.
- The field of tropical medicine
- Epidemiology and diagnosis of malaria
- Tropical pathogen complex
- Laboratory techniques
- Malaria: clinical and therapeutic aspects
- Vector control and collective prevention of malaria
- Personal malaria prevention
- Typhoid fever and other bacterial infections
- Cerebrospinal meningitis
- Tuberculosis: epidemiology in French Guiana and worldwide
- Viral hepatitis
- Bacterial and nosocomial infections
- Human parasitic infections
- Specific parasitic infections in French Guiana: toxoplasmosis, Chagas disease
- Traveller and migrant diseases
- Fundamentals of epidemiology and public health
- Public health mediation
- HIV/AIDS infections
- Treatment of diarrhoea
- Skin infections, leishmaniasis, leprosy, pruritus
- Research protocol
Job opportunities
Sectors of activity
- Tropical Medicine
Health
Health UFR
Management
Prof. Pierre COUPPIE
Director
Prof. Mathieu NACHER
Deputy Director
Ms Sandrine ADONIS
Administrative and Financial Manager
Guillaume ICHER
MCF Associate Professor - Tutoring Manager
Scholarship
Mrs Romy BAAL-OTHILY
Schooling Manager
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Ms Véronique KONOE
Schooling Manager
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Ms Victorine MAZONOE
Schooling Manager
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Ms Raymonde ONOZO
Schooling Manager
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Endrow PHIBEL
Apparitor
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Reception
Troubiran Campus
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