AFRO-NETS> Supercourse Update

[Ronald E Laporte <ghnetu+@pitt.edu>]

Supercourse Update
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http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/


Dear Friends,

Eun Ryoung Sa has joined us in Pittsburgh as a doctoral student in Epi-
demiology. She is from Korea and will be working with us on the contin-
ued development of the Supercourse. She has created a series of slides 
that summarise the concept of the Supercourse. If you would like a copy 
of the slides, please send her an e-mail:
mailto:eunsa@imap.pitt.edu

In September, Deb will be presenting the Supercourse at the 1999 Con-
gress of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine in Sao Paulo, Brazil. We 
hope to set up a meeting for the Brazilian Supercourse faculty at that 
time. If you are interested in meeting with other Supercourse faculty 
in Sao Paulo, please send Deb an e-mail:
mailto:debaaron+@pitt.edu

We have been contacting people within individual countries to see how we 
might best be able to implement the supercourse. We are also talking 
with people who are in the medical library associations of the world. 
There is the interest in working with them to mirror the supercourse. 
In addition, there is the possibility of developing a supercourse for 
medical librarians which would be wonderful. If you have contact with 
people in a medical library, it would be good to get you involved.

Benjamin has located a fantastic resource for translation, it will 
translate a web page from English to French, German, Spanish, Portu-
guese, and Italian and from each of those languages to English:
http://translator.go.com

The number of faculty members and lectures continues to grow. We cur-
rently have 1018 participants from 98 countries. Below, Akira has pro-
vided an update of the new and revised lectures we have received since 
our last e-mail.

NEW LECTURES

(1) Epidemiology of Diabetes Complications - I
        http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec0771/index.htm
(2) Epidemiology of Diabetes Complications - II
        http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec0781/index.htm

Dr. Trevor Orchard writes these two lectures, who is a principle inves-
tigator of DiaComp (Diabetes Complication Study of DiaMond Project). 
These lectures cover the topics of type 1 and type 2 diabetes as well 
as results of recent interventional studies in the field.

(3) Epidemiology of Transfusion Transmitted Disease
        http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec0741/index.htm

Dr. Sharyn Orton writes the lecture, who had worked as a Medical Tech-
nologist in the field of Blood Banking more than 20 years, and now pur-
suing a degree in Epidemiology.
You will learn scientific as well as epidemiologic facts about transfu-
sion transmitted diseases in this lecture.

(4) Epidemiology of hypothyroidism
        http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec0791/index.htm

Dr. Refaat Hegazi writes the lecture, who joined us as a co-ordinator 
of the Supercourse lately. He is a physician from Egypt and now re-
searching in Pittsburgh. Do you know that hypothyroidism is one of the 
major health problems globally as well as one of the diseases which 
could be prevented cost effectively? Everyone of us in the health field 
must recognise the problem.

REVISED LECTURES

(1) How to Read an Article on a New Diagnostic Test
        http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec0342/index.htm

This is the revised lecture by Dr. John Pearson. He has many years ex-
perience in teaching this topic to medical students.


Best wishes,

Ron, Deb, Akira, Benjamin, Eun
mailto:ghnetu+@pitt.edu

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