Lectures by IDCU to Family Doctors

The Department for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, in collaboration with the Malta College of Family Doctors, is organizing a certificate course on public health topics that are of interest to family doctors. These will include Food borne illnesses, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, HIV and Aids, Hepatitis A, B and C, Influenza/avian flu, Antimicrobial resistance and other infectious diseases.

The course will consist of 14 lectures, two evenings per month on Tuesdays from March to June and September to December.

The venue is the Victoria Hotel, Sliema at 8.30 p.m. sharp. Refreshments sponsored by GlaxoSmithKline will be available after each talk.

Lectures held at Victoria Hotel, Sliema 2005

Lectures on 15.03.2005

         Communicable Disease Surveillance by Dr. C. Gauci

         Confidentiality & Public Health Notification by Dr. P. Mallia

Lecture on 29.03.2005 

         Epidemiology in Medical Practice by Dr. J. Mamo

Lecture on 13.04.2005

         Respondng to the Bioterrorism Threat - by Dr. N. Lightfoot,

                                                                Director of Emergency Response Team

                                                                Health Protection Agency,

                                                                London, UK

Lectures on 26.04.2005

          Foodborne Illnes - Clinical Aspects - by Dr. P. Sciortino

          Foodborne Illness Empidemiological Aspects - by Dr. C. Gauci