The Global launch of Medical Peace Work
I want to hand straight over to my good friend Mike Rowson, former Director of Medact, and now an academic tutor on the international BSc course at University College London, to tell you about this FANTASTIC new e-learning course on violence prevention and peace-building for doctors and medical students which is FREE and open to all. I strongly encourage you all to sign up now-Rhona
Ole Danbolt Mjøs, Chair of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, hands over the first Medical Peace Work CD-ROM to physician and potential MPW student Morten Skandfer
The University of Tromso, Norway and UCL’s Centre for International Health and Development have collaborated with partners in three other European countries to produce a new online interactive course in Medical Peace Work. The course will enable physicians, medical students and health workers around the world to improve their skills in violence prevention and peace-building. The course is the world’s first of its kind and it applies the latest e-learning technology in offering seven separate but interlinked modules. It is available free of charge and is also available on CD-ROM. The course’s 79 lessons and 21 interactive case studies reflect its broad definition of the role of health workers in conflict and peace work and range across subjects as diverse as chemical warfare, refugees, domestic violence and the underlying causes of violent conflict. For more information visit http://www.medicalpeacework.org/?q=node/230- Mike Rowson
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March 31st, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Medicine, health ,politics ,peace and social justice are very intricated entities.since the time of Father of medicine, Hippocrates who had itirated the importance of environment, sanitation to the equitable distribation of land as some basic fundamentals for helathy living.similarly latest epidemiological study has put emphasis on the concept of necessary and sufficiant cause to produce the biological and symptological effects. For example, just getting Mycobacterium Tuberculosis infection is not sufficient to produce the clinical tuberculosis rather it menifests only when the patient’s immunity is down.This in turn is determined by his nutritional and socioeconomical status.Thus so far to enhance or balance the socioeconomical status,social justice needs to be ensured which ultimately brings peace and prosperity. so i think the whole medical community should focuse in this area and the initiative of the medical peace work is an important cornerstone .