Workshop: Intensive Introduction to Medical Informatics January 28th - February 1st 2002 Nelson Mandela School of Medicine University of Natal Durban, KZN, South Africa Cost: No registration fees or tuition for African participants UNLESS they wish to take the course for credit (see below). Housing: A block booking of rooms will be made in the Holiday Inn hotel in Durban and transport will be provided to the workshop daily. Antici- pated room rate US$ 60-70. Meals: Provided at the workshop (breakfast-lunch-dinner) Total number of participants: 25 The New England Medical Center-Tufts University School of Medicine International Training Program in Medical Informatics in conjunction with the Nelson Mandela School of Medicine at the University of Natal is hosting this intensive one-week workshop. The workshop will be taught by faculty from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The Brigham and Women's Hospital-Harvard Medical School, Children's Hos- pital-Harvard Medical School, New England Medical Center-Tufts Uni- versity School of Medicine (all in Boston, USA) and faculty from the University of Natal and the Medical Research Council of South Africa. This is an intensive 5-day workshop aimed at introducing participants to the major areas of medical informatics science through a series of lectures, lab session's and evening tutorials. Participants will be expected to have some basic computer skills (use of e-mail, Internet, word-processing etc). The workshop will attempt to focus on applica- tions and examples with the potential to impact public health prob- lems in sub-Saharan Africa. The course is being offered for 8 credits for students in the Master of Public Health degree program at the University of Natal. Students registering for credit will be charged a registration fee of South African Rand 350 and tuition of ZAR 520. It is also being offered for 8 credits for students who subsequently enter the new ITMI sponsored post-graduate degree program in Medical Informatics at the University of Natal, scheduled to begin in July 2002. A limited number of places are being held in the workshop for ITMI / NIH funded participants and other participants from sub-Saharan Afri- can health science professionals. All such participants will be re- sponsible for their own travel to and from Durban and hotel charges. For further information please contact: Professor Maurice Mars Department of Physiology Nelson R Mandela Medical School University of Natal PVT Bag 7 Congella 4013 South Africa Tel +27-31-260-4364 Fax +27-31-260-4455 mailto:mars@nu.ac.za -- To send a message to AFRO-NETS, write to: afro-nets@usa.healthnet.org To subscribe or unsubscribe, write to: majordomo@usa.healthnet.org in the body of the message type: subscribe afro-nets OR unsubscribe afro-nets To contact a person, send a message to: owner-afro-nets@usa.healthnet.org