Capacité de médecine tropicale at Université Sorbonne Paris Nord

The Capacité de médecine tropicale (inter-university) gives doctors the clinical, therapeutic, epidemiological and biological knowledge to practise in resource-limited countries and remote tropical areas, and also covers imported pathology and travel medicine. It is organised at Université Sorbonne Paris Nord by the infectious and tropical diseases department of Avicenne hospital and the IMEA-Fondation Internationale Léon Mba.

Faculty: UFR de santé, médecine et biologie humaine  |  Duration: 2 years  |  Intake: October  |  Study mode: Continuing education; taught in French  |  Location: Villetaneuse, Île-de-France, France

What you will study

Year 1: 245 hours, comprising 120 hours of theory in 7 modules (public health, major tropical health problems, water and health, tropical paediatrics, daily medicine in resource-limited settings) and 125 hours of practical seminars (travel medicine, medical communication tools, clinical case analysis, health systems, malaria control). Year 2: a compulsory 6-month full-time placement in a health setting handling tropical pathology and a dissertation of about 30 pages.

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