Epidemiology Course on the Internet (51)
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Dear Friends,
There continues to be rapid development, whew.
1. National Institutes of Health Grant:
I have been busily writing a grant to submit to the NIH to provide sup-
port for our group here in Pittsburgh so that we can maintain this ef-
fort into the next few years. We plan to expand the effort so that we
can have 200 reviews/lectures. In addition, we want to develop what is
called Statistical Quality Control procedures for monitoring the qual-
ity of the lectures based upon the ratings of the lectures. It is still
rough, but if you are interested in seeing it, please let us know and
we will send you a copy of the grant. Also, feel free to use parts of
it for your own grants.
2. References:
We may be contacting some of you regarding the grant to ask if you
would say in a few sentences why you think the reviews/lectures may be
important in your country or specialty area. Also, I want to show NIH
how many people would be willing to continue to review, write lectures,
translate, and use the supercourse.
3. Distance Education and Instructional Expertise:
As part of the grant we would like to find people who are experts in
distance education and/or instructional development (not necessarily in
health, but in education). We want to demonstrate that we have this
type of talent who are willing to give us advice. If you know of any
expert in this area, we would like to discuss with them the possibility
of their joining us in the development of a small task force. We would
like international participation.
4. Introductory Slides:
We have developed a set of slides that people can use to present the
Supercourse to Ministries of Health, Universities, etc. around the
world. The slides can be downloaded from the Supercourse home page. We
would be pleased to make up any other slides to assist you in promoting
the development of the Supercourse in your region.
5. Lectures to overview:
We have posted 2 beautiful new lectures and we are in need of reviews.
The lectures are on Malaria by Humberto Guerra, and Foodborn Outbreaks
by Ralph Cordell.
6. Translations:
Lecture 1 is now available in French. That brings the total number of
languages to 7 that have been posted for lecture 1.
7. We have changed the first 7 lectures based upon comments, and plan
to bring these up so that they can be translated.
If you are coming to the US in the future, it is easy to come to Pitts-
burgh. We would very much like to have you visit. If you are hungry, we
will take you to the Original Hot Dog Shop, for a Chili Dog and an Iron
City Beer. There are, of course, other food and drink options!!! We
would be pleased to have you come as we have many visitors to our WHO
Collaborating Center each year.
Best regards from
Ron, Deb, Akira
mailto:RLAPORTE@vms.cis.pitt.edu
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