Our Tuberculosis Short Course is part of the Health Academy Short Course series and provides clinicians with essential travel health and occupational knowledge related to TB risk, prevention, screening, and BCG vaccination considerations. This programme covers global TB epidemiology, high-risk groups, UK screening policies, and key components of TB risk assessment for travellers and workers.
Causative organism (Mycobacterium tuberculosis)
Transmission and infection risk
Global epidemiology and high-incidence regions
Latent vs. active disease, symptoms, complications
High-risk traveller groups (long-term travellers, healthcare workers abroad, fieldwork, humanitarian missions)
Occupational exposure risks within UK health and laboratory settings
Screening requirements for healthcare workers
Current UK BCG recommendations
Eligibility and age considerations
Mantoux testing and IGRA testing
Contraindications (including pregnancy and immunocompromise)
Administration technique and expected reactions
Infection control principles
Environmental and behavioural prevention for travellers
NaTHNaC, UKHSA, Green Book, WHO TB resources
Multiple-choice assessment
Yes, you will receive a certificate on successful completion of the course.
This e-learning course provides 1 CPD hours and is fully self-paced.
Welcome to this tuberculosis vaccine course which discusses travel and occupational health risk and provides clinicians with specific information relating to the Tuberculosis vaccine (BCG) and screening tests available in the UK.
This course is suitable for any experienced vaccinators who’s role will involve administering the BCG vaccine. Or anyone who wants to improve their knowledge on tuberculosis. Therefore this could include immunisation nurses, practice nurses, travel health nurses, pharmacists or any healthcare professional 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. This course provides 2 hours of CPD.
Course content:
Please note: This is a stand alone tuberculosis short course. It is therefore NOT a substitute course for BCG vaccine administration training.
It is also 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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Alys Bunce –
Everything one should know about TB in a clear and well-presented way. As a tutor who delivers BCG training I find this to be the perfect accompaniment to the practical courses
Andrew Hunter –
Would like to see more information on how to care for a positive mantoux test
Heather Clark –
The course met my expectations, it was interactive and ease to navigate.
Robin Warming (verified owner) –
I really liked how user friendly this course was, very simple to navigate and the information was clear and laid out well.
Robin Warming (verified owner) –
I really liked how user friendly this course was, very simple to navigate and the information was clear and laid out well.
Tina Mark –
Very user friendly, and met all my expectations.