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Hyun Lim (Community Health & Epidemiology) for his collaborate work with Jilin University School of Public Health in China.
José Téllez-Zenteno (Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, Royal University Hospital/Assistant Professor of Medicine) for his work with High-Specialty Hospital in Oaxaca Mexico.
Vivian Ramsden (Department of Family Medicine) for her collaborative work the Omayal Achi Health Centre in Chennai, India.
Carl D’Arcy (Department of Psychiatry/College of Medicine and School of Public Health) for his collaborative work with Jilin University School of Public Health in China.
Graduate Students:
Ryan Wright, a graduate student in the College of Kinesiology.
Vincent Terstappen, a Masters of Science candidate in the Department of Community Health & Epidemiology.
Congratulations to medicine student Kieran Conway and nursing student Brenda Jackson for theirwinning submission Community Wishes. The award was presented on December 2nd, 2008 at the Social Accountability special event From Paper to Practice. Both Kieran and Brenda are dedicated SWITCH volunteers and graciously donated the $1000 prize to SWITCH.]]>
Calling all Health Science Students, you are all invited to submit entries to the Social Accountability Art Competition. The winning entry will receive $1000. Read the guidelines here Submissions are due November 21st, 2008.]]>
Making the Links is accepting applications for its 2008-2009 intake. All first year medicine students are elgible to apply. For more inforamtion check out the Making the Links website.]]>
For more information and to register check out the poster: Download file
image by John Collier Jr. an American photographer, this is a photo of a nurse working in 1943 in New Mexico at a clinic operated by the Taos County cooperative health. association.
AIDS Saskatoon is also taking applications for the position of Executive Coordinator. Check out the posting for more information.
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But what's Making the Links (MTL)? MTL is a U of S College of Medicine service learning elective program for undergraduate medicine students. Selected students have the opportunity to experience community health and development in the contexts fof rural/remote health in northern Saskatchewan, an urban underserved community at SWITCH (Student Wellness Intiative Towards Health) in Saskatoon and in the Global South in Mozambique.
Check out the Making the Links website for more information.
In case you want to print the poster:Download file
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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.
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.
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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 reader1) 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 ***photo by Laineys Repertoire***
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