| What is IHP-IFMSA | The International
Health Interest Group provides medical students
information about what it is like to work as a doctor
abroad as well ashow one can experience health systems
abroad as a student. Currently IHIG is planning on a
lecture series that would present different world health
issues, what doctors do abroad and how doctors work
abroad. In addition, IHIG is working on setting up a
program that will facilitate the process of international
away rotations through the IHP/IFMSA organization. The
current national newsletter can be found at the bottom of
this page. OFFICERS Local Exchange Officer-Derek M. Guirand |
| Links | AMSA international
electives: http://www.amsa.org/resource/intl/intlintro.html IFMSA webpage:www.ifmsa.org USA IHP webpage:www.usa-ihp.org |
NEXT MEETING
Quick Details:
* 70 countries (Europe, Asia, Middle East, Africa, North and
South America, Australia - list available)
* One month electives (available year round in most countries)
* $320 per elective (INCLUDES your housing, ALL of your food +
social events)
* English is sufficient for about 95% of the countries
* Setting up the elective is simple (we do most of the work)
* 40 spaces available for Chicago campus students for 2001-02
* Applications and info packets available at the info session
Interested? Read on:
The International Health Interest Group (IHIG) has successfully
established an exchange program here at the Chicago campus! We
will have two information/application sessions during the month
of January. I will show a presentation of how the program works,
deadlines etc., and will be taking applications for the class of
2002,(bring your checkbook for a down payment).
When?
January 18 at 6:30pm in Rm. 221
January 25 at 6:30pm in Rm. 221
M2's and M1's: These two info sessions are
mainly for M3's, but you can guarantee this years price for an
exchange in your M4 year if you begin an application now.
Current IFMSA Newsletter
Medical Education
| Location | Topics | Dates | Details | Cost | Contacts | |||||
| Alexandria, | Tropical Medicine | 1st-21st | Lectures | $250 Summer | Hazem El Mansy | |||||
| Egypt | Pediatrics | of each month | Clinical Training | $265 Winter | Tel +(203) 48 69 288 | |||||
| Chest | Outpatient Clinics | M: + (2) 010 144 54 24 | ||||||||
| Visits to specialized | e-mail: alexandriass@hotmail.com | |||||||||
| hospitals | http://www.ralex.cjb.net/ | |||||||||
| Cairo/ Sharm | Diving Medicine | Offered every | Lectures, Discussions, | $300 pre deadline | e mail: zmssa@net.com.eg | |||||
| El Shiekh | Tropical Medicine | month, varying | Clinical Rounds | $350 after | beetls@yahoo.com | |||||
| Zagazig/ | Pediatrics | days, contact | ||||||||
| Egypt | ||||||||||
| Kuopio, | Women and Health | July 23-27, | Lectures, Discussions, | $200 | e-mail: hamelaht@hytti.uku.fi | |||||
| Finland | 2001 | Workshops | www.helsinki.fi/jarj/lks/fimsic/ | |||||||
| Palestine | General Surgery | Aug-01 | teaching rounds | $300 | Anan B. Shtayya | |||||
| Internal Medicine | seminars | Fax: 00972923956610 | ||||||||
| Pediatrics | outpt clinics | Mobile: 0097252292030 | ||||||||
| case-based discussion | shtayya@hotmail.com | |||||||||
| Conferences | ||||||||||
| HIV and AIDS | ||||||||||
| London, England | ||||||||||
| Sept. 11-12, 2001 | ||||||||||
| contact: 9627167@iona.sms.ed.ac.uk | ||||||||||
| Jubilee 2000 Czech Republic | Jubilee 2000 is an international movement calling for the | |||||||||
| Prague, Czech Republic | cancellation of unpayable debt of the world's poorest countries | |||||||||
| Sept. 22-29, 2001 | by the year 2000. | |||||||||
| contact: prague@jubilee2000uk.org | ||||||||||
| International Public Health Congress "Health 21 in Action" | Aims include: | |||||||||
| Istanbul, Turkey | 1) share the vision of the "health for all" policy in the 21st century | |||||||||
| October 8-12, 2000 | 2) exchange innovative experiences in public health | |||||||||
| Application Deadline: October 8,2000 | 3) explore the future role and action potential of public health | |||||||||
| Contact: dekon@dedeman.com.tr | 4) strengthen cooperation among public health professionals | |||||||||
| www.publichealth2000.com | 5) update info and knowledge of modern technologies in public | |||||||||
| Cost: $225 | health | |||||||||
| "A Generation At Risk" | ||||||||||
| 1st International Workshop on Effects of War on Children | Aims include: | |||||||||
| Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1) To train students to recognize war reactions in children | |||||||||
| October 19-23, 2000 | including: PTSD, depression, crisis, anxiety | |||||||||
| Application Deadline: Sept. 15, 2000 | 2) Train students to cope with direct trauma when working w/ children | |||||||||
| http://www.geocities.com/sarajevows | 3) Raise awareness among students about cultural differences | |||||||||
| Cost: $120 | ||||||||||
| *Travel assistance fund available for students from countries in | ||||||||||
| transition | ||||||||||
| 3rd National Medical Students International Network | Aims include: | |||||||||
| "Globalisation: A Challenge to Health Equality?" | 1) Explore the various interconnected issues related to | |||||||||
| Edinburgh, Scotland | globalisation and its ultimate impact on people's health | |||||||||
| October 28-29, 2000 | ||||||||||
| http://www.medsin.org/ | ||||||||||
| Cost: 15 pounds sterling | ||||||||||
| Youth Programme On Human Rights Education | Aims include: | |||||||||
| Budapest, Hungary | 1) Opportunity for participants to share experiences on human rights | |||||||||
| November 7-12, 2000 | 2) Develop human rights activities | |||||||||
| www.coe.fr/youth/english/hre/enter.htm | ||||||||||
| contact: secretariat@eycb.hu | ||||||||||
| 24th International Medical Student's Scientific Congress | Aims include: | |||||||||
| Ohrid, Macedonia | 1) Opportunity for presentations of scientific work | |||||||||
| May 11-14, 2001 | 2) To create a scientific and friednly atmosphere among | |||||||||
| Application Deadline: | 10-Apr-01 |
students from all over the world | ||||||||
| contact: mmsa@mt.net.mk | ||||||||||
| www.mmsa.org.mk | ||||||||||
| Cost: $80 | ||||||||||
| 6th International Workshop of Medical Education | ||||||||||
| "Advances and Challenges" | ||||||||||
| Cairo, Egypt | ||||||||||
| May 15-17, 2001 | ||||||||||
| contact: | mededu@crosswinds.net | |||||||||
| http://mededu.tripod.com/ | ||||||||||
| 2nd International Congress for Medical and PhD Students | ||||||||||
| "Stop TB" | ||||||||||
| Iasi, Romania | ||||||||||
| May 11-13, 2001 | ||||||||||
| contact: ralucam@iasi.mednet.ro | ||||||||||
Projects |
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| SCORA | IFMSA-USA National Officer for SCORA: Reena Gulati: | ifmsausanora@yahoo.com | ||||||||
| Peer Education Project on Sexual Health of Young People | Status: Proposal to be completed by Sept.21 | |||||||||
| August 2001, Denmark | Anyone interested in organizing should contact Selma | |||||||||
| contact: Selma.mujezinovic@studmed.uio.no | ||||||||||
| Teenage Pregnancy Workshop | Purpose: Examine the issue of teen pregnancy in | |||||||||
| August 2001, Denmark | the context of different regions of the world. | |||||||||
| Contact: kandrusky@hotmail.com | ||||||||||
| Anyone interested should subscribe at: | Students will explore social, religious, and cultural aspects. | |||||||||
| http://www.egroups.com/group/ga2001ws-07 | Groups will choose a region and develop a concrete project | |||||||||
| action plan on how to address that region's problems. | ||||||||||
| AIDS and Human Rights Project | ||||||||||
| August 2001, Denmark | ||||||||||
| Subscribe at: AIDSandHR@egroups.com | aidsandhr@egroups.com | |||||||||
| SCOPH | IFMSA-USA National Officer for SCOPH: Carrie Thiessen: | ifmsausanpo@yahoo.com | ||||||||
| Calcutta Village Project | Purpose: | |||||||||
| Ongoing | A public health project that provides Primary Health | |||||||||
| www.calcuttavp.org | Care to the poor and sick people of remote rural areas | |||||||||
| contact: calcuttap@ifmsa.org | in Southern Calcutta | |||||||||
| Burmese Refugee Project | Purpose: | |||||||||
| Ongoing | BRP sends its students to the hospital to live and | |||||||||
| Mae Sot, Thailand (Burmese-Thai border) | learn about different medicine, learn about different cultures | |||||||||
| contact: betel.nut@mf.uni-lj.si | and about being a refugee | |||||||||
| akles@hotmail.com | ||||||||||
| http://www.slomsic.org/burma | ||||||||||
| PROJECT FAIR: | ||||||||||
| A world exhibition of all of IFMSA's projects and events which is planned to start after the project fair in Malta. It is planned | ||||||||||
| to travel through 10 different stations in 10 different big cities in Europe and end in Denmark for the 50th anniversary. | ||||||||||
| If you have suggestions or a project you would like displayed should contact | pc@ifmsa.org | |||||||||
| Any further questions regarding the above announcements can be directed to Jennifer Cheng MS IV, Director of Communications | ||||||||||
| and Publications at | ifmsausacommunications@yahoo.com | |||||||||