Supercourse Newsletter, April 4, 2003
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Golden Lecture: The golden lecture project is heating up. The Hippo-
crates Million Mondiale Mentor experience - We want to have a million
people world wide learn from the golden Hippocrates lecture of pre-
vention. Hippocrates would have turned 2743 years old on Sept. 19,
2003 had he not died. He is not too old to join the festivities.
Hippocrates' e-mail address is <greekdoc@zeus.com> (only kidding),
and where ever he is now, is most certainly cheering us on. The best
from of prevention is do no harm. Hippocrates will be giving to you a
prevention lecture, and he asks that you share it with your friends.
Faina Linkov has created the first version for the Hippocrates Mil-
lion Mondiale prevention day. The lecture is coming from you as we
are extracting slides from 1,235 lectures, and re-combining these
into the golden lecture of prevention (the GLOP lecture). We will
first send the lecture to you in a few weeks for comment. Once it is
ready, Hippocrates and we will send out a lecture template, which you
can use as is, or modify. We also plan to translate the lecture into
10 languages. When you receive your copy of the golden lecture feel
free to modify or translate it.
The goal is to forward this to many of your friends and family who
might be interested in joining the golden lecture on Hippocrates day.
The target is to have 1 million people world wide reviewing and
learning from it, either reading it from the web, or being taught by
the golden lecture. We can do it. Hippocrates where ever he is today
is pushing us forward.
We have several new countries which have joined us, New Guinea, Can-
ada, and Malaysia, we are closing in to the 20 countries. As indi-
cated what you are asked to do is merely to read the lecture and to
forward it to as many people as you can. It would be great if you
could join so we could start to get input from all 151 countries on
the Supercourse. If you want to join, send a note:
mailto:ronlaporte@aol.com
It is fascinating to think about the maximum number of people ever
taught from a single lecture, perhaps it is 5,000. We can leave that
number in the dust. Let's put a number up like 1,000,000 taught about
prevention at a single time. You and the Supercourse faculty will be
talked about for years. This will most certainly make the London
Times!
The comments and suggestions we have received so far have been won-
derful. We will have a great lecture - a golden lecture seen by a
million! Hip, Hip, Hurray for Hippocrates. We are counting the days
to Sept. 19, there are 158 days left to reach Hippocrates day.
This will be a joint project of the Supercourse and the wonderful Li-
brary of Alexandria in Egypt.
Riddle:
Question: What is 0.27% of the year, one Spanish Lunch, 1/2 of a
football game, a visit with your mother in law, 2 dentist appoint-
ments, one really boring faculty meeting and 2 baths? It is the time
needed for you to build and send a Supercourse lecture.
Question: Which is more important for global health - a faculty meet-
ing, a football game, talking to your mother-in-law or developing a
Supercourse lecture? Wow, this is tough question, isn't it?
It is amazing we have 9,250 faculty and 1,250 lectures, it appears
that perhaps 80% of you might have a PowerPoint lecture to contrib-
ute. Think about it, we, the other 9,149 faculty give you for free,
over 1,200 PowerPoint lectures. We would be soooo appreciative if you
could give us one in return.
Only kidding, of course, but to create a Supercourse lecture from a
PowerPoint lecture takes only 2 hours, and you will get to know 2
wonderful people, Eugene and Julia Shubnikov from Novosibirsk, Rus-
sia. It is easy, annotated PowerPoint, with the instructions on the
front of our home page. A Supercourse lecture can save YOUR life
also. You can say Dear, we cannot go over to your mother's house to-
day, as I have to create a Supercourse lecture to save the people of
the world (some people have used this excuse 113 times already). The
bottom line is, where is your time better spent, with the Super-
course, or your mother-in-law or the chairperson of your department?
Women s Health:
Faina Linkov has been getting many positive e-mails regarding the de-
velopment of the Women s Health Supercourse network. Various faculty
members expressed a particular interest in the development of women's
health lectures for the developing countries, as well as on many
other topics. We would like to thank all of you for your valuable in-
put. If you are interested in joining Women's Health Supercourse net-
work and haven't done so, please e-mail Faina at <fyl1@pitt.edu>
Comment Slides:
We would like to encourage you and your students to complete the com-
ment slide at the end of each lecture. We have shown we can recruit
faculty, and build a lecture library. Now we need to evolve our sys-
tems for evaluation.
Thank you very much. We invite you to visit with us in Pittsburgh. It
is spring and the allergens are beginning to fly.
Lecture of the week:
From now on, Supercourse newsletters will have "lecture of the week"
section, featuring the review of the most interesting Supercourse
lectures or topics.
The first lecture elected for this section is "Public Health in Cuba"
http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec9881/index.htm , recently pre-
sented to the Supercourse by Peter G Bourne Jardines. The lecture
targets the general audience of public health professionals and gives
us an important lesson on how much health can be improved through
prevention and information sharing. This lecture gives the reader de-
tailed and graphical information about the structure of public health
system in Cuba and its achievements. Achievements of public health in
Cuba discussed in the lecture include elimination of polio, diphthe-
ria, newborn tetanus, as well as remarkable achievements in the area
of maternal/child health, and dramatic increase in life expectancy.
The lecture stresses the importance of virtual health university and
library, which is one of the focal point of health information shar-
ing in Cuba. The length of the lecture is 27 slides, but the content
can be expanded and developed in many possible directions. We would
highly recommend this lecture for introductory public health courses
as an example of how important public health prevention is. The lec-
ture would also be a great addition to any international/global
health courses.
Best regards from Pittsburgh:
Ron, Faina, Mita, your mother in law, Eugene, Akira, Hippocrates,
Abed, Rania, Julia, Beatriz, Deb, your chairperson, Tom, Ellen, other
dead Greek Scientists
mailto:super1+@pitt.edu
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