<br><div class="gmail_quote"> <span style="font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif;font-size:12pt">Mike Westerhaus</span><div><div style="font-size:12pt">
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<div style="font-style:italic;font-family:times,serif;color:rgb(69,69,69)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span><span style="TEXT-ALIGN:left;LINE-HEIGHT:22px"><var></var>SocMed invites students to apply for the fourth annual course Beyond the Biologic Basis of Disease: The Social and Economic Causation of Illness, a social medicine immersion experience conducted on-site at Lacor Hospital in Gulu, Uganda from January 7, 2013 to February 1, 2013. </span></span><span style="TEXT-ALIGN:left;LINE-HEIGHT:22px">This unique immersion course incorporates innovative teaching methodologies to merge teaching of clinical tropical medicine with understanding the socioeconomic, cultural, political, and historical underpinnings of illness. </span><span style="TEXT-ALIGN:center">Through a combination of lectures, small and large
group discussions, films, community field visits, ward rounds, and clinical case discussions, the study of clinical medicine in a resource-poor setting is intersected with social medicine topics such as the social determinants of health, globalization, war, human rights, community-based health care, and narrative medicine. </span><span style="TEXT-ALIGN:left;LINE-HEIGHT:22px">Enrollment is open to fifteen 3rd and 4th year medical students from across the globe, and includes equal participation of Ugandan medical students, and credit for away-rotations can be arranged.</span></font></div>
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<div style="font-style:italic;font-family:times,serif;color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="TEXT-ALIGN:left;LINE-HEIGHT:22px">This course is offered through SocMed, an organization that advocates for and implements global health curricula founded on the study of social medicine. By engaging medical students though careful examination of the social and economic contexts of health and immersing them in partnership with a diverse group of students from around the world, we aim to foster innovative leaders who are ready to tackle challenging health problems in communities around the world.</span><br style="TEXT-ALIGN:left;LINE-HEIGHT:22px">
<br style="TEXT-ALIGN:left;LINE-HEIGHT:22px"><span style="TEXT-ALIGN:left;LINE-HEIGHT:22px">SocMed utilizes a curriculum that places great importance on building personal partnerships and encouraging students to reflect upon their personal experiences with
power, privilege, race, class, gender, and sexual orientation as central to effective partnership building in global health. In the spirit of praxis (a model of education that combines critical reflection with action) these components of the course give students the opportunity to discern their role in global health and social medicine through facilitated, in-depth conversations with core faculty and student colleagues. Please feel free to visit our website, <a style="OUTLINE-WIDTH:0px;COLOR:rgb(35,71,134);TEXT-DECORATION:underline" href="http://www.socmedglobal.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="COLOR:rgb(54,99,136)">www.socmedglobal.org</span></a>, for more information about the course, its directors and guest lecturers, and SocMed. We have attached the 2013 Course Prospectus to this email for your convenience. Applications are due by June 30, 2012.</span></font></span></div>
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<div style="font-style:italic;font-family:times,serif;color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span><span style="TEXT-ALIGN:left;LINE-HEIGHT:22px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions you have at <a style="OUTLINE-WIDTH:0px;COLOR:rgb(35,71,134);TEXT-DECORATION:underline" href="mailto:inquiries@socmedglobal.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="COLOR:rgb(54,99,136)">inquiries@socmedglobal.org</span></a></font></span></span></div>
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