Travel Medicine
Travel Medicine Services
A consult with a travel medicine expert is designed to help travelers prepare for health needs in support of a safe and pleasant trip. Our travel medicine services at Mount Auburn focus on pre-planning and counseling about potential health and safety risks and ways to avoid them. This includes:
- Personalized counseling about health and safety concerns in planned areas of travel
- Guidance for emergency healthcare
- Medication and information to help deal with illness while overseas
- Assistance with special health-related travel needs, including counseling for pregnant women or individuals with allergies, chronic medical problems (e.g. cardiovascular disease, diabetes) or physical disabilities
- Up-to-date preventive information on mountain sickness, jet lag and diving
- Telemedicine consultations
Travel medicine consultations are offered in the Infectious Disease Clinic including pre-travel preparations, recommendations on vaccines, and post-travel evaluations. Recommended vaccines would be administered off-site. Alternatively, please check with your insurance carrier for other travel medicine providers in your network.
