Our Rabies Short Course provides clinicians with essential travel health and immunisation knowledge to confidently deliver pre-exposure rabies vaccination and give evidence-based bite prevention and post-exposure advice. This programme covers rabies disease, transmission risks, vaccine schedules, wound care, and UK recommendations for travellers and occupational groups.
Overview of course structure and learning objectives
Lyssavirus transmission
Symptoms and disease progression
Global epidemiology and high-risk regions
Animal exposure risks
Long-stay travellers, VFRs, field workers, and humanitarian staff
Travellers with limited access to medical care
Current UK recommendations for pre-exposure vaccination
Dosing schedules, including rapid schedules
Administration, storage, and handling
Contraindications and precautions
Expected adverse reactions
Immediate wound care
Advice for travellers abroad
Vaccine vs. HRIG requirements (country-dependent)
NaTHNaC, Green Book, UKHSA rabies guidance
Multiple-choice assessment
Yes, you will receive a certificate upon successful completion of the course.
Assessment is completed through integrated quizzes and a final online assessment.
This course aligns with UK travel health and immunisation guidance. However, clinicians must complete supervised practice in their workplace and should only deliver Rabies vaccinations independently when both they and their employer are confident in their competence.
This rabies vaccine short course is part of the ‘Health Academy Short Course’ series and provides clinicians with specific information related to Rabies and Rabies vaccines available in the UK.
This course is suitable for any experienced vaccinators who’s role will involve administering rabies containing vaccines. Therefore this could include immunisation nurses, practice nurses, pharmacists or any healthcare professional, or healthcare support worker administering vaccines.
We have designed the vaccine short courses to cover all the key information for understanding the fundamentals of the disease, and the available vaccines. Therefore this course includes information on the live vaccine and it’s risks. You should complete the course in approximately 60 minutes.
Course content:
Please note: This is a stand alone rabies vaccine short course. Therefore this is not a Foundations of Immunisation Course for those new to immunising or an Annual Immunisation Update Course.
We also recommend completing a comprehensive Fundamentals of Travel Health course if you are going to be delivering a travel health service. This is in line with Good Practice Guidance for Providing a Travel Health Service (RGPSG, 2020).
Further travel health related short courses are also available here.
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Kate Plahe –
very informative and easy to follow, good course, thank you.
p.price810 (verified owner) –
Very interesting and informative. Highly recommend
varnejo (verified owner) –
very interesting, informative and easy to follow. Thank you. Highly recommended.
louiseh1410 (verified owner) –
Basic information for already competent immunisers. Easy to use and follow. Thank you.