Notes on Maritime Medicine

Maritime medicine represents an area of medicine that has origins dating back to Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Viking and European times. Seafarers have been the pioneers in the exploration of new continents, they have accessed territories that have given mankind access to resources found in other regions. The practice of maritime medicine requires that the professional has a series of skills and competencies that include a deep knowledge of the subject, professional ethics, ability to work in teams and interact with professionals from different areas, an openness to multicultural treatment, relations with international organizations to meet requirements for the transport of people and goods at the international level. This work is a compendium of some of the training activities that should be developed by students of the maritime medicine specialty program at the UCA and can serve as a first contact with the subject and reference for people who start learning in this specialized medical area and unknown to most of the medical staff at international level, we hope it will be useful.