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Sabbatical Summary (July 2008-June 2009) and Global Health in the DFM

Sabbatical Summary (July 2008-June 2009) and Global Health in the DFM. Dr. Lynda Redwood-Campbell DFM McMaster University DFM meeting Sept 23 09. What I learned. Time flies! You can do a lot in a year Plan your time on and time off, plan well Plan well ahead of your time

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Sabbatical Summary (July 2008-June 2009) and Global Health in the DFM

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  1. Sabbatical Summary (July 2008-June 2009) and Global Health in the DFM Dr. Lynda Redwood-Campbell DFM McMaster University DFM meeting Sept 23 09

  2. What I learned • Time flies! • You can do a lot in a year • Plan your time on and time off, plan well • Plan well ahead of your time • Plan your vacation time in it- easy to get lost in the shuffle • Don’t feel guilty! • Smell the roses

  3. Projects…… • World Health Organization • Aceh Indonesia project-curriculum development, capacity building. • CIHR research proposal-ethics of humanitarian work- a narrative account. • Immigrant cervical cancer screening project-analysis and paper submissions. • Red Cross-primary care/public health interface during disasters • CFPC work-expanding role of IH committee and liaison with the AFMC groups. • Conferences…..papers…….

  4. Aceh project • To support capacity building of the faculty members at Syiah Kuala University medical school in the areas of: • Faculty development • Curriculum development; disaster preparedness and response, “Family Medicine”/ primary health care and community outreach projects Funded by Rotary Club of Dundas, accepted by the Rotary International

  5. Where is the project now? • Aceh is 4 years post peace accord stable! • I.T. • Now have computers for students to search internet and download attachments, adding more every year • Health centre almost complete • Disaster curriculum- first group of students finished block • 2 faculty in Aceh are now doing Masters in Education in Holland-1 has come to McMaster • Next up- development of the Family Medicine curriculum-

  6. What did I do? (ie: what can an academic person do with the WHO?) • Project evaluation- did it make a difference? • Policy papers for public health- reviewing the literature, pulling together different actors to ‘agree’ on a policy about that topic. • Learned the ‘culture’ of the WHO • Meetings!

  7. What does the WHO want to know? • Who is doing innovative work in their areas • Get your organization/department/ project name out- marketing- become excellent and then let them know what you are doing. • They are not the academic ones- we are! WHO needs to know what the questions are.

  8. We can be leaders in our areas of expertise • We can do it as well as anyone else • UN/WHO is a very complicated web of organizations • Collaborating centres a possibility for us for our areas of expertise

  9. New initiatives now for DFM • GH coordinator role (admin assistant Kelly Barry) • GH (FM) IG residents • 2 scholarships for GH in FM • Pre-departure training • Vision and mission for global health in DFM • Curriculum development for residents • Strategic planning brainstorming meeting/ future possible strategic planning retreat • Develop the GH website on the DFM site

  10. GH and the DFM • We need to be very mindful of what GH activities we engage in as a DFM. Vision and mission. • Academic focus. We are an educational institution- build partnerships along those lines • Research and education in global health • Do your homework before starting global/international projects or going abroad • Support and nurture peers and residents in global health- at the same time need to be sensitive to intricacies of doing global health work- many good intentions go bad

  11. Pre-departure training guidelines(AFMC) • Personal health • Travel Safety • Cultural competency • Language competency • Ethical considerations

  12. FYI…..upcoming • International Women and Children’s Health Symposium Fri Oct 2 09 RBG www.iwch.org • Canadian Society for International Health- Oct 24-28 09 Ottawa • WONCA May 2010 Mexico –world conference- theme is the Millennium Development Goals and Family Medicine • AAFP global health annual meeting

  13. Exhausted or energized???This is the question….

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