<div class="gmail_quote">From: Social Medicine <<a href="mailto:social.medicine@yahoo.com">social.medicine@yahoo.com</a>><br><div><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt;color:#000000">
<div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span>We invite you to
apply for the third annual Beyond the Biological Basis of Disease: The Social
and Economic Causation of Illness, an on-site immersion course in social
medicine offered at Lacor Hospital in Gulu, Uganda from January 9, 2012 through
February 3, 2012.  This intensive course designed for 15 international
medical students (clinical years) and 15 Ugandan medical students (3</span>^{<span>rd</span>}<span>-5</span>^{<span>th</span>}<span> year) from Gulu University intersects the
study of clinical medicine in a resource-poor setting with social medicine
topics such as the social determinants of health, globalization, war, human
rights, community-based health care, and narrative medicine.  This
highly-interactive course is taught through a combination of lectures, small
and large group discussions, films, community field visits, ward rounds, and
clinical case discussions. Credit for away-rotations can be arranged.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#141414">For more information, we invite you to please see our
website at: <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/socialmeduganda/" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site/socialmeduganda/</a>.
In addition, short videos of our previous courses can be viewed by clicking the
desired year: 2010: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLHGpY4EDwg&feature=related" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLHGpY4EDwg&feature=related</a>
and 2011: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2UCUFcXAas" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2UCUFcXAas</a>.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span>If you have any
questions or are interested in applying, please email us at <a href="http://us.mc567.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=social.medicine@yahoo.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">social.medicine@yahoo.com</span></a>.  Applications are
due July 31, 2011.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span>Sincerely,</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span>Michael
Westerhaus, MD, MA</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span>Julian Jane Atim,
MD, MPH</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span>Amy Finnegan,
MALD, MA</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span>(course instructors)</span></p>




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