To suppport, encourage and foster continued teaching, research and learning in global health the Internationalization Committe of the College of Medicine has made funds available to support College of Medicine faculty, grad students and students.
For more information on the bursaries check out these links:
Faculty, Graduate Students, Students
photo by Gaetlan Lee
The World Health Organization released their 256 page report, Gap in a Generation: Health Equity through Action on the Social Determinants of Healthtoday, the product of a 3 year investigation by various policy makers.
The report calls for major change through action to close the gap between rich and poor within a generation. The report makes three overall reccommendations to close this gap:
2) Tackle the inequitable distribution of power, money and resources – the structural drivers of those conditions – globally, nationally and locally.
3) Measure and understand the problem and assess the impact of action.
Click here to read the full report or Click here to read the executive summary.
Okay, I am a librarian by training and find database alerts to be a simple and easy way to stay up to date with what's new in the literature.
If you are interested in keeping up with what's being published on the topic of social accountability and medical schools but just don't have the time to search yourself, follow the instructions on how to set up a database RSS alert in OVID Medline. Then every time a new article on the topic of social accounatibility and medical schools is entered into Medline you'll be the first to know. Plus you'll be able to do this for any other topic you're interested in.
Search terms to use in Medline: "Social Responsibility" AND "Medical, Schools"
Setting up the database alert:
1) Go to the U of S Library page and find Medline (Ovid) database
2) Click on Personal Account (for Searches) - If you do not have a personal account, click on Create a new Personal Account.
3)Log in with your Personal Account Name and Password.
4)Click on the Save Search/Alert.
5)Enter a name for the alert and select AutoAlert (SDI) from the drop-down Type menu.
6)Complete the AutoAlert Options and then click SAVE.
Need help setting up a feed reader? Keep reading...
How to use Bloglines as your RSS feed reader
1) Go to www.bloglines.com
2) Follow the step by step instructions to set up your account, this is basically the same as signing up for a yahoo or hotmail account
3) To add the feed - click on the Feeds tab
4) Click on Add found directly under the Feed tab
5) On the main part of the screen you will see a box Blog or Feed URL
6) Cut and paste the URL (the really long at the end of this posting) into the box
7) You're Done! Now at the beginning of every month should anything new be published and indexed into Medline it will show up your Bloglines feed.
8) You can use Bloglines to subscribe to other database alerts, newspaper feeds, or even this blog!
Welcome to the Social Accountability Blog for the College of Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan
Watch this space for current news, interest items and various other interesting tidbits related to Social Accountability in Medicine.
***photo by Laineys Repertoire***