<div class="gmail_quote"><div>December 17, 2012</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Dear Friends of SocMed,</div>
<div><br></div><div>We are excited to announce that in 2013 SocMed will be offering another course in addition to the annual course in Northern Uganda. We have partnered with the organization Physicians for Haiti to implement this course in July 2013 for medical students of all levels. The course in Haiti will utilize much of the same curriculum albeit adapted to the local context of Haiti. <i>Praxis, the Personal, and Partnership </i>will continue to drive the course pedagogy. Please find below the official publicity email about the course along with an attached course prospectus that gives more details about the course. We would greatly appreciate if you publicize amongst your networks of potentially interested students. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Sincerely, </div><div><br></div><div><img src="cid:ii_13b974b0e818679e" alt="Inline image 1"> <img src="cid:ii_13b974b6f2cd3308" alt="Inline image 2"><br></div><div>Michael Westerhaus MD, MA Amy Finnegan, PhD</div>
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<font color="#000000">SocMed and Physicians for Haiti (P4H) are pleased to announce the inaugural offering of “<i>Beyond the Biologic Basis of Disease: The Social and Economic Causation of Illness</i>” in Haiti. This annual three-week course, which will be held from July 8th to 26th in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, is designed for medical students of all levels and links tropical medicine with social medicine teaching. The course merges a number of unique pedagogical approaches including field visits, classroom- based presentations and discussions, group reflections, student presentations, films, and bedside teaching. These approaches are utilized to create an innovative, interactive learning environment in which students participate as both learners and teachers. We hope to advance the entire class’ understanding of the interactions between the biology of disease and the social, cultural, economic, political, and historical factors that influence illness presentation and social experience.</font></p>
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<font color="#000000">This course will utilize a curriculum previously developed and offered in Northern Uganda by SocMed, an organization which advocates for and implements curricula for health professional students that is founded on the study of social medicine. The Haiti course represents an expansion of SocMed’s activities to a new site in partnership with P4H. SocMed will continue to offer its annual course in Northern Uganda as well. More information on each organization can be found at <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.physiciansforhaiti.org/" style="text-decoration:underline;outline-width:0px;outline-style:initial;outline-color:initial" target="_blank">www.physiciansforhaiti.org</a> and <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.socmedglobal.org/" style="text-decoration:underline;outline-width:0px;outline-style:initial;outline-color:initial" target="_blank">www.socmedglobal.org</a> .</font></p>
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<font color="#000000">More information about the course and how to apply may be found at <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.physiciansforhaiti.org/socmedpage" style="text-decoration:underline;outline-width:0px;outline-style:initial;outline-color:initial" target="_blank">www.physiciansforhaiti.org/socmedpage</a>.</font></p>
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<font color="#000000">Eligibility criteria for applicants:</font></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;display:block;line-height:normal">
<font color="#000000">-Medical students of any year</font></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;display:block;line-height:normal">
<font color="#000000">-Fluency in French</font></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;display:block;line-height:normal">
<font color="#000000">-Availability for the entire length of the course (July 8th-26th, 2013)</font></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;display:block;line-height:normal">
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<font color="#000000">We have attached the <b>2013 Course Prospectus</b> for your convenience. We would greatly appreciate you sharing this information with your students!</font></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;display:block;line-height:normal">
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<font color="#000000">Please feel free to contact us with any questions. Thank you for your time and assistance in sharing this information about Physicians for Haiti and the Social Medicine Course.</font></p>
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<font color="#000000">Best wishes,</font></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;display:block;line-height:normal">
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<font color="#000000">The Physicians for Haiti and SocMed teams</font></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;display:block;line-height:normal">
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<font color="#000000">For more information or specific questions, please email </font><a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:rjoachim@physiciansforhaiti.org" style="text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(40,98,197);outline-width:0px;outline-style:initial;outline-color:initial" target="_blank">rjoachim@physiciansforhaiti.org</a> or <a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:pmathelier@physiciansforhaiti.org" style="text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(40,98,197);outline-width:0px;outline-style:initial;outline-color:initial" target="_blank">pmathelier@physiciansforhaiti.org</a></p>
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