Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Global Survey on Pediatric Curricula - We Want You!

What is this?

The Global Survey on Pediatric Curricula is an official trans-national project of International Federation on Medical Students' Association (IFMSA) in collaboration with WHO Department of Child and Adolescent Health and Development. The survey is being conducted by IFMSA SCOME from October 2007- May 2008 and extended until June 2008.

The Aim and Objectives

The aim of this project is to create a Map and Database of Paediatric Curricula around the world which enables us to get the information about the Paediatric Curricula. It is intended as a tool to gather and consolidate information on what medical students learn and understand, and also what skills they have in paediatric.

The main objectives of this project are to : (1) describe what medical students learn during their paediatric curricula, (2) describe clinical skills taught in Paediatric Curricula, and (3) find out what medical students know and learn about IMCI in their paediatric curricula.

Target Audience

We need your help to promote this survey in your home country and encourage medical students who had finished paediatric clerkship/clerkship to participate. We need at least 1387 responses, with at minimum three minimum students from each medical school taking part. We also extended the target audience to freshly graduated doctors (not exceeded by 6 month after graduation).

Link

The on-line survey can be accessed through:

http://tools.ifmsa.org/surveys/survey.php?sid=39

Username: pediatrics

Password: pediatrics

Current Response

So far, we have received 543 responses from people in 61 countries

What do we need you to ?

Fill in the survey if you have completed paediatric clinical rotation or clerkship

Send the link to your peers in your own language, add the link to your national and local medical student websites

What do you get in return?

In addition to the reward of knowing that you are contributing to an important piece of research, you'll be the lucky recipients of a free copy of the Pocket book

http://www.who.int/child_adolescent_health/documents/9241546700/en/index.html

In addition, all those who participate in the survey will receive summary of the final results.

Final Extended Deadline

June 16, 2008 at 24.00 (Geneva time)

On behalf of GSPC team,

Fina Hidayati Tams, B.Med
International Project Coordinator
Global Survey on Pediatric Curricula

Faculty of Medicine

Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia

Intern CAH Dept. WHO HQ, Geneva, Switzerland
Period : May-June 2008

Mobile : +41 (0) 76 286 0944

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