I and Travel Medicine

When I graduated from HeBei medical University in 1999, I became a internal doctor in Armed Police. In 2006, I postgraduated from my alma Mater, majored in digestive medicine, and in 2008, I transferred to civilian work to China Inspection and Quarantine. At that time, I didn’t know about Travel Medicine, telling the truth, I know nothing about it.

There is a chance in 2008, I attended selective examinations sponsored by IMMAT. At that time, I knew about of Travel Medicine for the first time. Though I didn’t get the scholar to study Travel Medicine in US, I was really interested in it how ever, and the doctor must think the country which the traveler will go or ever went, symptom, laboratory investigation and vaccination histories over  before he diagnose. While in TianJin International Healthcare Center, which is the clinic I work, I take charge of physical check-up, having nothing to do with Travel Medicine. In our center, a consultant doctor provides simple Travel Medicine information to the travelers. When the traveller tells him where he wants to go, the doctor takes the continent into account, not the country, not to mention the city. My center only has the MMR, YF, typhoid vaccines and anti-malaria drugs.

This year, I got the chance of studying Travel Medicine in US by my endeavor. In Kaiser Permanente Travel Medicine Clinic, I know the truth of Travel Medicine and admire the knowledgeable doctor Ansdell and Yates. I hope I can be them by my study.