Any Nurse Practitioners work in Tropical Medicine?

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Hi, I have a BSN and I am planning on going into a FNP role. I would like to somehow specialize in Tropical Medicine. I am really interested in parasitology and infectious diseases. Does anyone know any Advanced Practice nurses who have been able to specialize or work with a group of Tropical Medicine physicians. I have searched online and haven't found much. I would like to find a program that would let me take some of these type of courses but it seems like you have to be a Med or Veterinary student to get into the grad level parasitology or tropical medicine type courses. Tulane has a MPH/MD type program, obviously for doctors/med students etc. It seems like ARNPs are branching out more and more into specific specialties but I can't find much concerning this one.

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I studied tropical diseases at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine - both are in England. Both had class and lab components. My wife is a Certified Nurse Midwife and she studied in Liverpool with me. I do recommend both institutions. Our overseas work experience has taken us to the Indian Subcontinent and Belize, Central America. In every case we have gone as volunteers at our expense.

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Specializes in NICU, Trauma, Oncology.

I have my MPH from Tulane. There were as many nurses in my program as MD students as there were non-medical students. It's a great program though - highly recommended :)

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@keylimesqueez - What are you doing now that you have completed the program? What was your background before you entered?

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