Emergency Medicine is a relatively young specialty in the United States, but the concepts and practices of the American model of Emergency Medicine are quickly taking root in many countries interested in developing their own emergency care systems.1 International Emergency Medicine presents a unique opportunity to participate in a vital health care service developing in different cultural setti...

BACKGROUND Infectious disease specialists who evaluate international travelers before or after their trips need skills to prevent, recognize, and treat an increasingly broad range of infectious diseases. Wide variation exists in training and percentage effort among providers of this care. In parallel, there may be variations in approach to pre-travel consultation and the types of travel-related...

Introduction: High altitude destinations are popular among international travelers. Travel medicine practitioners should be familiar with altitude physiology and high altitude illness recognition, prophylaxis, and management. We performed the first bibliometric analysis of high altitude medicine research. Methods: All articles published in a specialist hi...

Introduction: Travel medicine has become firmly established as a medical discipline and, such, it should undergo periodic assessment of its productivity. Scientometrics is field study related to data science, which concerns itself with the measurement and analysis published scholarly literature. Methods: A scientometric evaluation was conducted all 240 articles through February 2021 in Internat...

Interest in tropical medicine began several hundred years ago, when Europeans, primarily, traveled to Africa, Asia, and Latin America in search of land, adventure, and riches. They often returned from their travels with tropical diseases. The diagnosis and treatment of these diseases became an important part of medicine in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Eventually, interest expanded from treat...

prevention of infectious diseases during travel but also with the personal safety of travelers and the avoidance of environmental risks. The major content areas of travel medicine include the global epidemiology of the health risks to the traveler, vaccinology, prevention of disease and pretravel counseling. Many of these risks can be minimized by precautions taken before, during and after trav...

Introduction: The number of foreign travelers arriving in India has shown an exponential increase from 1.2 million in 1981 to 8.03 million in the year 2015, with an annual growth rate of 4.5%. With the influx of internationally mobile students to developing countries such as India comes the responsibility of having to cater to the health needs of these visitors. The current stu...