Salzburg Medical Seminars

Branch Office of the International Organization of Open Society Institute - Assistance Foundation in Tajikistan in collaboration with American Austrian Foundation is pleased to announce a call for applicants interested in attending OMI - Salzburg Medical Seminars

The Salzburg Medical Seminars, established in 1993, is a postgraduate medical education program founded by the American Austrian Foundation and physicians from Weill Medical College of Cornell University to bridge the knowledge gap between East and West, North and South.

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Debating and Producing Media Workshop

The International Debate Education Association announces an open call for applications to select youth from Central Asia to participate in Youth in 21st Century: Debating and Producing Media Workshop 2012.

GENERAL INFORMATION

Description:

The media play an important role in shaping the ideas of youth worldwide. The media can validate or ignore social or political issues in a society, cover some issues at the expense of others, and shape perceptions about particular groups or individuals.

The International Debate Education Association (IDEA) organizes a series of workshops that combine debate, discussion, and analysis of the media's role in society with hands-on training in how to create professional and insightful media projects.

Attachments:

File	Description	File size
Application-form_CA_2012.doc		41 Kb
Write-up on workshop_CA 2012.doc		112 Kb

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International Visitors Program with the Institute for Palliative Medicine at San Diego Hospice

Branch Office of the International Organization of Open Society Institute – Assistance Foundation in Tajikistan

in a frame of Public Health Program is pleased to announce a call for applicants interested in attending an International Visitors Program with the Institute for Palliative Medicine at San Diego Hospice.

The program enables physicians who received their training outside North America to acquire core knowledge and skills of palliative care. Physicians will have a program customized to their educational goals.

Activities include participation in:

1) Classroom educational sessions based on the Education in Palliative and End – of – Life Care for Oncology (EPEC – oncology) Curriculum that faculty helped develop;

2) Participation in a facilitated session with a simulated patient to practice breaking bad news;

3)Participation in bedside clinical services as an observer in one or more of the clinical settings, including an inpatient center, home care, long-term care, or inpatient consult service in one of the acute care hospitals in San Diego County.

4)Each day will include discussions with IPM physicians and other members of our interdisciplinary teams, including nurses, medical social workers, spiritual counselors, integrative medicine practitioners, volunteers, etc.;

Requirements: All activities take place in English. International visitors must be proficient in both spoken and written medical English. A brief telephone interview will be conducted to ensure English proficiency.

Please provide the following information along with a picture and a copy of your CV.

1. Last Name, First Name

2. Complete Mailing Address

3. Email address

4. Home telephone number

5. Mobile telephone number

6. Name of current employer

7. Current position title

8. Medical specialty

9. Do you take care of patients in a hospital?

10. What palliative care training have you received?

Date, location and length of training

11. Are you currently providing palliative care?

12. How many patients do you provide palliative care to in a week?

13. Why are you interested in participating in this program?

Deadline for submission of requested documents May 22, 2012 till 16:00.

Completed set of documents should be submitted: 37/1 Bokhtar str., 4th floor, Vefa" Business Center,

Dushanbe, Tajikistan, 734002, Takhmina Bakhronova, e-mail: osi@osi.tajik.net, phone: (+992) 47 441 07, 28;47 441 07 46, 37 227 55 58.

Grant Opportunity for Photographers From

Central Asia, the South Caucasus, Afghanistan, Mongolia, and Pakistan

Deadline: May 10, 2012 at 5pm EST

The Open Society Documentary Photography Project and the Arts and Culture Program are offering grants for documentary photographers from Central Asia, the South Caucasus, Afghanistan, Mongolia, and Pakistan. With these grants, we support visual documentation of important human rights and social issues in the region and provide training and mentorship to local photographers.

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