AFRO-NETS> Workshop: Intensive Introduction to Medical Informatics

[Donnie McGrath <DMcgrath2@lifespan.org>]

Workshop: Intensive Introduction to Medical Informatics
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Hello all:

Below is an announcement about a workshop in Durban in January. If 
you know someone working in the health sciences in sub-Saharan Africa 
who might be interested in attending please forward the information 
to them. There will be a limited number of places held for partici-
pants from other African countries. There will be no charge for these 
participants unless they wish to take the course for credit. 

Thanks,

Donnie McGrath MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Tufts University School of Medicine
Director, Tufts-NEMC ITMI Program
Box 41
New England Medical Center
750 Washington Street
Boston MA 02111, USA
http://www.nemc.org/itmi

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ITMI Workshop Announcement

Workshop: Intensive Introduction to Medical Informatics
January 28th - February 1st 2002

Nelson Mandela School of Medicine
University of Natal
Durban, KZN, South Africa

Cost: 
No registration fees or tuition for African participants UNLESS they 
wish to take the course for credit (see below). 

Housing: 
A block booking of rooms will be made in the Holiday Inn hotel in 
Durban and transport will be provided to the workshop daily. Antici-
pated room rate US$ 60-70. 

Meals: 
Provided at the workshop (breakfast-lunch-dinner) 

Total number of participants: 25

The New England Medical Center-Tufts University School of Medicine 
International Training Program in Medical Informatics in conjunction 
with the Nelson Mandela School of Medicine at the University of Natal 
is hosting this intensive one-week workshop. The workshop will be 
taught by faculty from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The 
Brigham and Women's Hospital-Harvard Medical School, Children's Hos-
pital-Harvard Medical School, New England Medical Center-Tufts Uni-
versity School of Medicine (all in Boston, USA) and faculty from the 
University of Natal and the Medical Research Council of South Africa.

This is an intensive 5-day workshop aimed at introducing participants 
to the major areas of medical informatics science through a series of 
lectures, lab session's and evening tutorials. Participants will be 
expected to have some basic computer skills (use of e-mail, Internet, 
word-processing etc). The workshop will attempt to focus on applica-
tions and examples with the potential to impact public health prob-
lems in sub-Saharan Africa. The course is being offered for 8 credits 
for students in the Master of Public Health degree program at the 
University of Natal. Students registering for credit will be charged 
a registration fee of South African Rand 350 and tuition of ZAR 520. 
It is also being offered for 8 credits for students who subsequently 
enter the new ITMI sponsored post-graduate degree program in Medical 
Informatics at the University of Natal, scheduled to begin in July 
2002.

A limited number of places are being held in the workshop for ITMI / 
NIH funded participants and other participants from sub-Saharan Afri-
can health science professionals. All such participants will be re-
sponsible for their own travel to and from Durban and hotel charges.

For further information please contact:
Professor Maurice Mars
Department of Physiology
Nelson R Mandela Medical School
University of Natal
PVT Bag 7 Congella 4013
South Africa
Tel +27-31-260-4364
Fax +27-31-260-4455
mailto:mars@nu.ac.za

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