What is the Gorgas course? A basic overview of the tropical medicine course
Written by Clinton Colmenares
For 19 years, participants – mostly physicians but also nurses, physician assistants, public health workers and others – have come from around the world to attend Gorgas, the only course in tropical medicine, sponsored by an American university, that takes place in the tropics.
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