Combined seminars: covering diseases specific to tropics and common infections that occur in rest of world (e.g. acute gastroenteritis, pneumonia) but pose particular management problems in tropics; clinical classes at Hospital for Tropical Diseases, options available in infectious diseases, paediatrics, respiratory medicine; laboratory work: training in basic skills, parasitology, entomology, immunology, medical microbiology, chemistry pathology, tropical histopathology, haematology; community health: epidemiology, statistics; research: evaluation of medical literature and preparation of short reviews for discussion, weekly research seminars, research project; examinations (written, clinical, practical, oral), project report.