AFRO-NETS> Final Announcement-Intensive Introduction to Medical Informatics Workshop

["McGrath, Donnie" <DMcgrath2@lifespan.org>]

Final Announcement-Intensive Introduction to Medical Informatics Workshop 
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Workshop: Intensive Introduction to Medical Informatics (ITMI)
Date: January 28th-February 1st 2002  
Location: Nelson Mandela School of Medicine,


Hello all: 

The closing date for application to attend the Durban Informatics 
workshop is tomorrow, December 19th. The course is oversubscribed but 
we are accepting applications for review until tomorrow. Information 
on how to apply, the original announcement and course outline with 
faculty list are below.

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 

Based on the interest shown by potential participants, the course is 
oversubscribed and we will need to have a selection process. Some of 
you have requested financial assistance. Unfortunately we do not have 
funding to assist with either transport or accommodation costs. The 
hotel accommodation is now priced at about $40 a night. We will pro-
vide transport to and from the hotel each day. For those of you who 
have indicated interest on behalf of others, please forward this to 
them. 
The following information should be emailed to Professor Mau-
rice Mars (mailto:mars@nu.ac.za) by 6pm GMT Wednesday 19 December. 
1.Name: 
2. Present Job Title and brief description of job. 
3. Employer: 
4. Brief explanation (+ 250 words) as to why you want to take this 
    course and how you anticipate it will be of use to you and or your 
    organization. 
5. Brief summary of present computing skills 
6. Source of funding

ITMI Workshop Announcement 

Workshop: Intensive Introduction to Medical Informatics 
Date: January 28th-February 1st 2002  
Location: 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 ho-
tel in Durban and transport will be provided to the workshop daily. 
Anticipated room rate $60-70US.

Meals: provided at the workshop (breakfast -lunch-dinner) Total num-
ber 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 (see outline attached). 
Participants will be expected to have some basic computer skills (use 
of email, Internet, word-processing etc). The workshop will attempt 
to focus on applications and examples with the potential to impact 
public health problems in sub-Saharan Africa. The course is being of-
fered for 8 credits for students in the Master of Public Health de-
gree program at the University of Natal. Students registering for 
credit will be charged a registration fee of South African R350 and 
tuition of R520. 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 who are sub-Saharan 
African health science professionals. All such participants will be 
responsible 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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