Title: GLOBAL HEALTH COURSE MODULES PROJECT
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Section/SPIG: International Health
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The Global Health Education Consortium has initiated a project to develop, by late 2008, at least 50 teaching modules on global health topics. The modules will have the following features and characteristics:
· PowerPoint presentation with a common look-and-feel format.
· Supplementary notes, case studies, references, graphics, linkages.
· Suitable for students in diverse health professions.
· Suitable for introductory and second level courses.
· Desirable features such as learning objectives, quizzes.
· User-modifiable to meet individual instructor needs.
· Developed in partnership with student, professional, and educational organizations.
· Peer-reviewed and field-tested by students and faculty.
· May be packaged as part of an online certificate course or for CE units.
The central objectives are to improve the quality and efficiency of global health education. We seek to do this by providing high quality modules on a wide variety of topics which students can review either on their own or in instructor-led courses. By being assigned in advance of class, modules can reduce time spent in lectures, thus allowing class time to be used more productively in discussions, case studies, problem-solving, etc.
IH Section members interested in learning more about the project should go to GHEC's Web site at www.globalhealth-ec.org, and click on "Global Health Course Modules" in the "GHEC Projects" box. The three Word files provide full information. If interested in becoming an author and/or reviewer, contact Tom Hall at thall@epi.ucsf.edu (Note: Tom will be out of the country May 21 - June 24).
-- Thomas L. Hall, MD, DrPH, Phone: (415) 731-7944 (preferred); (415) 514-8020, E-mail: thall@epi.ucsf.edu