Re: DVD project from US

[karthikeyan karthi bharathi]

 
Dear Kuldeep,

            I want to inform you that since I got the opportunity to work in Malaysia with Malaysian allied health sciences academy kulalumpur.henceforth,I cant be able to attend the forthcoming MEU workshops which is being conducted every tuesday in SAIMS.

          kindly remove my name from the workshop participants register.do the needful

your's truly,

Karthikeyan
Asst professor
Dept of Physiotherapy
IIMS.

On Tue, 06 May 2008 Dr Kuldeep wrote :
>
>Hello everyone!
>
>This one is the response I got from a Faculty of Medical education
>doing a project on making DVD for humanistic skills for chronic
>diseases.
>
>"Dr. Singh
>
>
>We'll be getting out a batch of the films out next week -- I don't
>know how long they will
>
>take to arrive.  I'll send a letter along with the DVD that explains
>a little more about
>
>the project.
>
>Please do let me know how the films are used!
>
>Should you ever be interested in conducting the project in India I'd
>be happy to offer
>
>whatever wisdom I've accumulated.
>
>Warmly,
>
>Dan Shapiro
>
>
>
>
>On Apr 30, 2008, at 10:15 AM, Dr Kuldeep Singh wrote:
>
>
>Dear Dr Shapiro,
>I appreciate you and your team's effort in carrying out this marvelous
>project on living
>
>with chronic diseases. We often could not demonstrate this aspect to
>medical students. I
>
>would also like to view this DVD and use in our medical education
>unit. Please send them to
>
>me if you are left with some.
>
>With regards
>
>Dr Kuldeep Singh
>Professor Pediatrics
>Co-ordinator, Medical Education Unit,
>Shri Aurobindo Institute of Medical Sciences,
>Indore-Ujjain Highway,
>INDORE, Madhya Pradesh,
>INDIA
>
>Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 09:43:04 -0700
> From: sha...@EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU
>Subject: Med students as filmmakers dvd available -- Gold Foundation
>
>
>Hi all,
>
>  We've just finished our second round of documentary filmmaking, the
>  patients as teachers, medical students as filmmakers video project.
>  Here at Arizona we're teaching our medical students about living
>with
>  serious chronic illness by having them make short (7-10 minute)
>films
>  about patients with serious chronic illnesses -- they visit patients
>  at their homes for 8 months and then edit (and edit and edit etc).
>  Then the films are shown in a "video slam" which we just had this
>week
>  (we have 8 new films).
>
>  As part of a professorship from the Arnold P. Gold Foundation, I'm
>  trying to spread the word about the project. Last years 4 films are
>  already in use at a number of med schools.
>
>  Patients in this years films include a little girl who just had an
>  amputation for sarcoma, a young man with recently diagnosed paranoid
>  schizophrenia, an middle-aged woman with Parkinsons etc etc. I found
>  many of the films moving and compelling (but I'm horribly biased.)
>  We've got initial supportive data that we're writing up -- but these
>  student films speak for themselves in some ways.
>
>  They have many teaching points in them -- I have some extra DVD's
>and
>  will mail to anyone who wants to see them (free) as long as you are
>  willing to report back about if and how you use them.
>
>  Warmly,
>
>  Dan
>
>
>  Dan Shapiro, Ph.D
>  Arnold P. Gold Associate Professor of Medical Humanism
>  Director of Medical Humanities Program
>  Associate Professor, Clinical Psychiatry
>  Box 245002, U Arizona Health Sciences Center
>  1501 N.Campbell Ave
>  Tucson, Arizona 85724-5002
>  sha...@u.arizona.edu
>  520 626 7089 (direct) / 520 626 2357 (admin)"
>
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