Other Short Courses
Three special short courses for elective students:
The Faculty of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, conducts special short courses for elective students twice a year on mental health and self-harm, tropical diseases, and their management, and community-based primary health care and primary care
- Mental health and self-harm (Duration 2 weeks)
This short course includes;
- Seminar/Workshops on mental health national and regional mental health burden and mental health services in Sri Lanka
- Seminars/Workshops on the national and regional burden of deliberate self-harm and substance misuse
- Seminars/Workshops and field visits on community-based interventions to prevent deliberate self-harm and substance misuse.
- Meeting and discussions with community-based organizations, research organizations and non-governmental organization members and activists on deliberate self-harm and substance misuse prevention and field visits to observe community-based interventions
- Field visits to observe psychiatry community-based preventive and curative services.
- Field visits to observe intermediate psychiatry units and rehabilitation centres
- Visit to forensic medicine museum
- Visit the teaching hospital, meet and discuss with healthcare professionals, and observe the management process
- Tropical diseases and their management (Duration 2 weeks)
This short course includes;
- Seminars/Workshops on the Sri Lankan health care system
- Seminars/Workshops on the national and regional burden of snakebites and other insect bites
- Seminars/Workshops on the national and regional burden of neglected tropical diseases (i.e. dengue, malaria, filariasis, leptospirosis, leishmaniasis, tuberculosis, leprosy, etc.)
- Meeting and discussions with leading research teams (runs with international collaborations) on snakebite and neglected tropical disease management
- Field visits to observe tertiary care, secondary care and primary care healthcare institutions
- Field visit to meet and discuss with traditional practitioners caring for patients presenting following snakebite
- Visit to snake museum and clinical pathology museum
- Visit to observe an Ayurvedic hospital
- Visit the teaching hospital, meet and discuss with healthcare professionals, and observe the management process
- Community-based primary health care and primary care (Duration 2 weeks)
This short course includes;
- Seminars/Workshops on Sri Lankan primary health care system
- Seminars/Workshops on the national and regional burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases and epidemiological transition
- Seminars/Workshops on community-based maternal and child health programme
- Field visits to observe primary health care structure, infrastructure facilities and services
- Meeting and discussions with community-based primary health care team members.
- Field visits to observe primary care institutions
- Visit to observe Ayurvedic community-based preventive services
- Visit the teaching hospital and peripheral hospital Out Patient Department (OPD), meet and discuss with healthcare professionals, and observe the management process
Furthermore, the FMAS, RUSL is planning to introduce a new short course on Ayurvedic and Traditional Medicine.
Fees
130 USD/Week (No registration fee or other fees)
Admissions and Inquiries
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Facilities for international students
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