Art Contest/Win Free Student Registration for the Network: TUFH 2006 Conference in Belgium

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ART CONTEST
WIN FREE STUDENT REGISTRATION FOR
THE NETWORK: TUFH 2006 CONFERENCE IN BELGIUM

Global Health through Education, Training and Service (GHETS) is sponsoring a contest to design the front of our 2007 holiday greeting card. Any individual health professions student from any institution worldwide may submit either their own original artwork, or artwork created by children or youth from their communities. The individual student whose entry is selected by the judging panel will be awarded free student registration for The Network: TUFH conference in Belgium in September 2006. The winning design and information about the artist will appear on GHETS' 2007 New Year's greeting card, which will be sent to nearly 200 partners and donors worldwide. Packages of greeting cards will also be sold to raise money for GHETS and our international partners, so your artwork could be seen by hundreds of people!

All entries must be received by Friday June 16, 2006.

Drawings, paintings or other similar artwork in any medium (pen, pencil, paints, etc.) are acceptable. Entries should reflect general themes related to global community health, but should not include the name GHETS or holiday greetings (which will appear inside the card). The final size of the greeting card will be no larger than 13 cm x 20 cm, so your design should fit into this space, either horizontally or vertically. All entries should be original work, either of the student making the submission, or of another young person who has agreed to let you submit the artwork on his or her behalf. Students may submit more than one design, but all entries become the property of GHETS and will not be returned.

Please include the following information with each entry, on a separate sheet of paper:

Artist information: Full name, sex, age, and place of residence (city/town, country)
Your information: Full name, name and location (city and country) of your school, email address, postal address and telephone number

Send your artwork via postal mail to:

GHETS
8 North Main Street, Suite 404
Attleboro MA 02703
USA
http://www.ghets.org/

If you have questions, or if you would like information on how to submit your entry by email, please email info@ghets.org

GHETS is a non-governmental organization based in the USA and a program development partner of The Network: TUFH. GHETS and The Network: TUFH have joined forces to promote strategies for change that address the health-related challenges of poor and underserved communities in developing countries.

Help from SNO requested

I write to you to see if you can give me your opinion of I want to do in my region.

First I want to say you that I have the opportunity to attend the national congress for education and investigation in psychology and the congress of the Latin American federation of associations in psychology. These congresses will be in the month of May 2006

I have begun to investigate the possibility of looking spaces in these congresses to share information about The Network: TUFH and SNO with the student participants and in that form to motivate them to make Local SNO’s in Latin-America.

I would like to receive more information and materials like photos of local SNO around the world, tutorials ABP, or other things that you see that could be important for motivate them.

I think that it is important to begin with my University for that reason I make a presentation, but only I have Ramullah`s photos (about the community interventions, PBL in Uganda, and different pictures, but I need pictures from other regions and if it is possible about Locals SNO around the world.

Reactions can be sent to: liliana_liz21@hotmail.com

Best Regards

Liliana Jiménez Galván, Mexico

Proposal of student exchange and elective program (SEP)

INTRODUCTION:

The Gezira student Network organization (SNO) has being an active member of the Network organization .One of the major target of Gezira SNO is the student exchange program. The SEP aims to give student the experience of studying in another school in abroad and being part of another culture.

The SEP would enable student to develop an alternative perspective on health care and education from their own country.

In addition the elective in other countries may contribute to better mutual understanding and exchange of ideas, values and knowledge

BACK GROUND:

THE MEDICAL SCHOOL:

Gezira medical school started at 1975 and take the problems base learning and community orientation as strategic of learning from start. Students have 10 semesters before graduate with integration between basic and clinical science

THE COMMUITY:

Wadmadani town, where the university of Gezira located, being a center of many villages in the heart of the beiges agriculture scheme in the world. The commonest illnesses are malaria portal hypertension, tuberculosis and rheumatic heart disease. The population in the area about 120000

OBJECTIVES OF SEP ARE TO:

1- Activation of the elective through student body
2- Experience problems based learning and working in small tutorial groups.
3- Pass information and exchange ideas about the future of SNO.
4- Get acquainted with the major health problem in different communities.
5- Offer SNO student some experience in primary health care (PHC).
6- Facilitate SNO student's participation in network tufh activities.
7- Experience SNO student's social live.

MODE OF ACTIVITIES:

1- Clinical courses in clouding problems based learning .
2- Community medicine courses.
3- Basic science and skill courses.
4- Activities organized by local SNO projects, seminars, workshops, convoies and research.

COORDINATION:

The SEP will be coordinating by Education development center and the local SNO exchange office under chair of the Dean of the faculty and the Network.

PERIOD OF EXCHANGE:

Will be organized according to the SNO student curriculum. With alternative variation e.g. (2 week, 4 week, 8 week, 16 week).

ESTIMATION COST:

The estimation cost for one Sudanese student is:
Travel (two ways) 1000$
Accommodation for one week 200$
Transport and meals for one week 150$

Gezira University can provide tickets for its student and accommodation and sundries for the student from collaborative school on the SEP.

CONCLUSION:

This program is intended o form that vital link between different countries, that the network is formed to maintain.

AUOTHER

Mr. Ahmed Fanabee
Contact person
Email: ahmed914@hotmail.com

SUPERVISOR
Dr. Mohamed Al Sanosy