Patterns of diseases in health students abroad: A systematic review

Different health risks are associated with international electives among medical students, including the transmission of infectious diseases and non-communicable diseases. This review aims to summarise evidence for illnesses travel in students taking part abroad. Articles were identified through a literature search two databases (until 30 July 2020) - PubMed Web Science. Sixteen articles included systematic review. The results classified into broad categories: communicable Gastrointestinal infections travellers’ diarrhoea most common reported by abroad, followed respiratory tract skin infections. Blood-borne sexually transmitted infection systemic febrile due vector-borne pathogens rarely reported. Only six 16 studies addressed microbial carriage. acquisition resistant bacteria appeared be frequent. Traffic accidents mental problems also One lessons learned from this is requirement large-scale epidemiological evaluate burden such as gastrointestinal, blood-borne microbiological documentation. In particular, emergence may lead theoretical risk spread community hospitals. Studies addressing issues context abroad needed.