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Sabbatical Summary (July 2008-June 2009) and Global Health in the DFM
Dr. Lynda Redwood-CampbellDFM
McMaster UniversityDFM 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• Plan your vacation time in it- easy to get
lost in the shuffle• Don’t feel guilty!• Smell the roses
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…….
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
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-
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!
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.
• 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
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
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
Pre-departure training guidelines(AFMC)
• Personal health
• Travel Safety
• Cultural competency
• Language competency
• Ethical considerations
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