Friday, November 7, 2008

New Conferences, Medical Education Links, Events

Monday, November 3, 2008

New Conferences, Medical Education Links, Events

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Conferences, Congresses, Symposia, Workshops, Events, Volunteer Opps

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Psychological Health: Special Session within iCBBE:

Call for Papers: Deadline Nov 30, 2008

http://www.icbbe.org

June 14-16, 2009 Beijing, China

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World AIDS Day on Dec 1st, See below for a list of ideas and check out our World AIDS Day Toolkit for a more comprehensive planning guide at

http://www.amsa.org/global/aids/wad.cfm

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Virtual congress of general practice/family medicine: E- health empowering towards operational knowledge from 21-9-2009 to 20-9-2009:
Family physicians/general practitioners/Doctors and postgraduates of all specialities are invited to participate: Free registrations at www.virtualcongressgpfm.com

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SICOBAIR is the continuation of Iranian Annual Conference for Students of Medical Sciences, hosted by a different university each year. In

2009, 20 - 22 May

Tehran, Iran.

http://www.sicobair.com/

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Falling through the Cracks: Access and the Underserved

AMSA Regions 5,7,9 Conference

December 5th-7th

register online: http://www.ttuhsc.edu/studentservices/AMSA.aspx

deadline, THIS Wednesday, November 5th!

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The 17th Annual International Ain Shams Medical Students' Congress is a medical conference where students and young doctors are empowered to present their results of their scientific research.

http://www.ausss.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3&Itemid=4

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Scaling Up Global Health Education and Training

and Global Health Career Clinic for Students and Residents

April 4 - 5, 2009: Theme: Transcending Global Health Barriers: Education and Action

University of Washington, Seattle, WA

www.globalhealthedu.org/Pages/e_2009_wp.aspx


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2008-2009 Health Care Justice Gathering

A gathering at the beautiful Gesundheit! Institute in West Virginia with programs from December 31th, 2008 - January 3rd, 2009.

Applications are due by November 10th. If you have any questions, please email HCJG0809@gmail.com

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Call for Abstracts: 14th Annual CyberTherapy (CT14) & CyberPsychology Conference, June 21st to 23rd 2009 in Lago Maggiore, Verbania, Italy: http://www.interactivemediainstitute.com

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17th Annual International Medical Students' Congress

Cairo, Egypt : 14-16 February 2009

http://www.ausss.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3&Itemid=4

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Call for Abstracts: 14th Annual CyberTherapy (CT14)

& CyberPsychology Conference, June 21st to 23rd 2009 in Lago Maggiore, Verbania, Italy: http://www.interactivemediainstitute.com

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National Coordinator on Education: national leadership position! Apps due by Midnight E.S.T. on Sunday, November 8th, 2008 ! For application form e-mail ramshors@bcm.edu

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27 October 2008: State of the World's Health, WHO releases the Global Burden of Disease study: www.who.int

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Clinical Tropical Medicine and Parasitology Course

Global Health Program, Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center

West Virginia University June 9, - July 31, 2009

email nsanders@hsc.wvu.edu

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36th Annual Conference - New Technologies + Proven Strategies = Healthy Communities May 26 - 30, 2009, Washington, DC

http://www.globalhealthconference.org

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Transcending Global Health Barriers: Education and Action: 18th Annual Conference of the Global Health Education Consortium, to be held from April 3-5, 2009, in Seattle, Washington:
www.globalhealthedu.org/Pages/e_2009_CallforAbstracts.aspx

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Winter School in Austria

Online-Registration:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=paPygsVtnR1YztIYG_HPKLg&hl=en

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Child Family Health International

www.cfhi.org

CFHI Spring 2009 Scholarships

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Africa: Training New Trainers workshop

amstc.training@gmail.com

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2009 Human Rights Advocates Program Human Rights Advocacy & Globalization Center for the Study of Human Rights ? Columbia University

Completed applications are due by December 19, 2008

http://hrap.hrcolumbia.org/application

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International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War

19th IPPNW European student conference: Deadline Oct 31, 2008

http://www.ippnw. org/

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Falling through the Cracks: Access and the Underserved

AMSA Regions 5,7,9 Conference: December 5th-7th

Register online: http://www.ttuhsc.edu/studentservices/AMSA.aspx

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2008-2009 Health Care Justice Gathering

A gathering at the beautiful Gesundheit! Institute in West Virginia with programs from December 31th, 2008 - January 3rd, 2009.

Email inquiries to hcjg0809@gmail.com

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AMSA Region X: Student Leadership Institute: Health Care For All: Where we are and Where we are going! Thursday November 20th, 4pm-9pm: Touro University Nevada jsamsaregionx@gmail.com

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THINK GLOBAL INITIATIVE PROJECT.

Call for the Regional Assistants & Coordinators for the project:
Deadline for applications is November 7th!! www.ifmsa.org

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INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS' MEETING ON PUBLIC HEALTH (ISMOPH) Satellite Event of the 12th World Congress on Public Health

April 26th-27th, 2009

Istanbul, Turkey

Application form is available on our website: http://www.ismoph2009.org

The deadline for application: November 16th 2008

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Medical Mass Causality and Special Needs Training Courses Fall 2008 www.HomelandDefenseJournal.com

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1st Medical Students Conference with International Participation

April, 2009 in Chelyabinsk, Russia

Please, use this e-mail address if you have any question:

nore@hccm.ru, adastramnd@mail.ru, evgenikud12@hotmail.com

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First Annual Conference on Engaging Reflection in Health Prof Educ & Practice, May 13-15/09. CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: Engaging Reflection in Health Professional Education and Practice, hosted by The University of Western Ontario's Faculty of Health Sciences, Faculty of Education, and Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry. London, Ontario, CANADA, on May 13-15, 2009. Detailed information about the conference http://www.reflectivepractice.ca). Submission Deadline is December 15, 2008

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Second annual AACR Conference on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities. This event is being held in Carefree, AZ on February 3-6, 2009. Abstracts are due November 17, 2008. Please go to the website

http://www.aacr.org/home/scientists/meetings--workshops/cancer-health-dispar
ities.aspx

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U.S.-MEXICO BORDER HEALTH SCHOLARS PROGRAM

http://steer.uthscsa.edu for information and a downloadable application

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Tulane University: Southern Group on Educational Affairs (SGEA) Regional Conference in New Orleans, April 2-4, 2009.

http://tulane.edu/som/sgea/

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Falling through the Cracks: Access and the Underserved AMSA Regions
5,7,9 Conference December 5th-7th register online:
http://www.ttuhsc.edu/studentservices/AMSA.aspx

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18th Annual GHEC Conference & 7th Annual Western Regional International Health Conference April 4 - 5, 2009 Theme: Transcending Global Health
Barriers: Education and Action: Location of 3-day event: University of Washington Seattle, WA: Abstract submission, go to:
www.globalhealthedu.org/Pages/e_2009_CallforAbstracts.aspx

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Canadian Society for Life Science Research's 3rd Annual Conference

3rd Annual meeting/conference (Toronto): November 7 & 8, 2008

http://www.cslsr.ca/

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The 13th Annual Meeting of the International Association of Medical Science Educators, Leiden University Medical Center, June 29-July 3, 2009, Leiden, The Netherlands. www.iamseconference.org

http://www.iamse.org/

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Risk Management Seminar for Health and Safety 2009 (RMSHS2009)

Period: March 26 (Thurs) to March 30 (Sat), 2009

Venue: The University of Tokyo, Medical Campus, Tokyo, Japan

Host organizer: Union of Risk Management for Preventive Medicine (URMPM).

http://www.urmpm.org/

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ECRI Institute, in cooperation with the Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy, the Milbank Memorial Fund, Health Affairs, the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Center for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health at Tufts Medical Center, is planning this year's annual conference for December 2-3, 2008, in Washington, DC.

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Improve Your Teaching: 2-day Medical Education Teaching (MET) Workshops

When: Negotiable

Where: At your university

Who: MET workshops are intended for Faculty, Residents, Fellows and Students seeking to improve medical education and clinical teaching skills.

How: contact violato@ucalgary.ca

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Lead Change: Engage and Mobilize Your Campus or Community To Make A Global Impact: If you would like to be a Global Impact Corps volunteer:

http://www.uniteforsight.org/fundraise/signup.php

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VIPSI-2009 BELGRADE, April 2-5 (10th anniversary, with Nobel Laureate Martin Perl): The main goal of this conference is to bring together the elite VIP scientists from all over the world, and to provide a forum for exchange of ideas in a number of related fields that interact.

If you are interested (www.internetconferences.net),

please submit title-abstract to vipsi.conferences@gmail.com

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The 2009 USPHS Scientific & Training Symposium

June 1-4 at the Atlanta (GA) Marriott Marquis. The theme:

Leading the Public Health Workforce in America.

abstract submissions deadline: November 14, 2008 (5 PM ET).

www.phscofevents.org

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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS The MedBiquitous Annual Conference 2009

April 28-30, 2009, Baltimore Maryland

MedBiquitous is seeking high-quality abstracts for half-day workshops,

panel presentations, and technology demonstrations on a variety of

topics related to the use of learning technologies and technology

standards for healthcare education and competence assessment.

Abstracts are due November 1. For details, visit:

http://www.medbiq.org/callforabstracts

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The Argentinian Association for Mental Health

http://www.aasm.org.ar/en/template.php

2009 conference

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28th International Education Exhibition

International Gathering of Globally Recognized Universities,

Business Schools and Colleges for New Admissions of students

November 8-9, 2008 Expo Center, Karachi

http://www.admissionsexpo.com http://www.asianstudentfair.com

For Reservation Application, please click to:
http://www.admissionsexpo.com/reservation2.html

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6th Asia Pacific Medical Education Conference (Feb 2008) at the National University of Singapore. We had about 500 visitors from 35 countries during the 5th APMEC. during Please visit the website http://medicine.nus.edu.s
g/meu/apmec6/index.shtml
for further information.

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HEART (Humanistic Elective in Alternative medicine, Activism, and

Reflective Transformation), the American Medical Student Association???s

(AMSA) fully-accredited, student-organized elective

WHEN: March 30-April 24, 2009

WHERE: The beautiful Sequoia Retreat Center in Ben Lomond, CA

http://www.sequoiaretreatcenter.com/

http://www.amsa.org/heart to apply now!

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Duquense's new certificate program in healthcare ethics.

Great training in teaching ethics, serving on ethics committees, etc.

The website is: www.duq.edu/chce

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The Innovations in Medical Education conference hosted by the Division of Medical Education, University of Southern California Keck School of

Medicine, will be held March 14-15, 2009 at the Pasadena Hilton.
http://mededonline.usc.edu/upcomingconf.html

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Conference on Families and Health

*Coming Back to Family: Nurturing Relationships in the Medical Home*

March 5-8, 2009 ~ Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront ~ Jacksonville, FL - Submission Deadline: September 8

Submit Online at:
http://www.stfm.org/stfmpresenter/submission/start.cfm?confid=158

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Physicians for Social Responsibility's Pediatric Environmental Health Toolkit.

The Toolkit can be downloaded or ordered free of charge directly through our website www.psr.org/site/PageServer?pagename=pediatric_toolkit

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Check out the new GHEC website, www.globalhealthedu.org

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Child Family Health International www.cfhi.org

Announcement: Child Family Health International programs from fall / winter are open for registration. Sale is on!

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COB Events

http://www.cob-eg.org/events.html

A whole list of international medical conferences

For example with varying deadlines:

18th World Congress of the International Association of Surgeons , Gastroenterologists and Oncologists.

Etc.

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International Conference on Gender-based Violence and Sexual and

Reproductive Health: 15 - 18 February 2009, Mumbai, India

The abstract (about 300 words) typed on plain paper, Send by e-mail to the organizing secretary.

gbv2009@yahoo.co.in or bdonta2007@yahoo.co.in

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RESOURCES

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AMEE

The Association for Medical Education in Europe is a worldwide organization with members in 90 countries on five continents. Members include educators, researchers, administrators, curriculum developers, assessors and students in medicine and the healthcare professions.

http://www.amee.org

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A comprehensive list of current conferences are posted at these site and one of them permits posting for free as a public service to announce your conference events:

http://mededonline.usc.edu/upcomingconf.html

http://www.aacom.org/education/conferences/reports.html

http://www.cma.ca

http://www.oucom.ohiou.edu/fd/conferences.htm

http://www.medicalconferences.com/

http://www.medical-events.com/

Mental Health

http://www.wfmh.org/conference/

http://www.aasm.org.ar/en/template.php

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Volunteer

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Contribute to a new project that you might find called Medpedia.com, which is being introduced to a select group of clinicians, researchers, expert patients, and medical students. Its Board of Advisors includes some of the top people in medicine, and it's an exciting time to join the Medpedia community. http://www.medpedia.com/

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Ongoing Volunteer Opportunities

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Dominican Medical Association invite you to experience our hands-on elective programs, cross-cultural training and help our communities as a medical volunteer.

For additional information, please visit our website at www.aaahealthcenters.com and www.multiculturalcouncil.org.

Child Family Health International - www.cfhi.org

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South eastern Senegal - email: dab2108@gmail.com

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SERVE & LEARN POSITION WITH THE GHANA HEALTH AND EDUCATION INITIATIVE - http://www.ghei.org

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Unite For Sight Volunteer Abroad Opportunities: As Featured Weekly On CNN International and Recently in The New York Times

Volunteer Abroad in Summer, Fall, Winter, or Spring

http://www.uniteforsight.org/intl_volunteer

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Please reply with any additional information you know about!

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