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Intensive Introduction to Medical Informatics Workshop
2002-01-28 to 2002-02-01
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 hotel 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 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 Hospital-Harvard
Medical School, New England Medical Center-Tufts University 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 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 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 from 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 2604364
Fax +27 31 260 4455
mars@nu.ac.za
Read more at: http://www.nemc.org/itmi/
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