Abstract

Since 1991 ISTM has presented an International  Congresses  every other year in Europe or North America. The ISTM International Congresses offer travel medicine specialists the opportunity to learn the most up to date information in the field. In the past decade travel medicine has emerged as a distinct multidisciplinary medical specialty involving all travel related aspects of existing medical specialties such as infectious diseases, tropical medicine, gastroenterology, obstetrics and gynecology, occupational medicine, orthopedics, pediatrics. ISTM International Congresses share the advances in the science and art of travel medicine while allowing those new to the field an introduction to this exciting medical discipline.