Course Overview
This one-hour eLearning course is designed to introduce GPs to the types of sexual health concerns that may need to be discussed in relation to travel, and how you might address them. You’ll explore supporting patients before or after travel, and ways to include sexual health in the discussion. You’ll learn how to provide travel health care by assessing sexual health risks, identifying behaviours that may increase STI exposure during travel, recommending appropriate vaccinations or medications, applying STI testing and follow-up guidelines for returning travelers, and sharing reliable educational resources.
Course learning outcomes
On successful completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Identify travelers who might wish to discuss sexual health, and apply strategies for normalising these discussions
- Identify activities associated with increased STI risk during travel
- Recommend appropriate medications and vaccinations prior to travel based on a sexual health risk assessment
- Apply current guidelines for asymptomatic STI testing for returning travellers and outline post-travel STI care and follow-up, including referral to sexual health clinics
- Access useful written information to share with travellers.
CPD: This education is a CPD Activity under the RACGP CPD Program. This activity has been allocated 0.5 educational activity hours and 0.5 reviewing performance hours in the RACGP 2026-2029 triennium. Activity Id: 1567610
This education is a CPD Activity under the ACRRM CPD Program. This activity has been allocated 0.5 educational activity hours and 0.5 reviewing performance hours in the ACRRM 2026-2028 triennium. Activity ID 41365
Contact: Please email [email protected] if you require assistance or have a clinical question you would like to raise with a medical educator.
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Last updated: March 2026
Funders: This activity has been developed with funding provided by QLD Health.
