#40
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 13:20:05 +0200
From: Ansa Ojanlatva <ansoja@UTU.FI>
Subject: dissertation writing
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Regards from this end... Different fields apparently have different
requirements for writing a disseration.
In the fields of medicine it is common to write disserations with a
committee (3 individuals, often senior faculty) these days and the
requirements at this medical school specify several (4-6) articles in
journals with the highest possible impact factors. By the time of the
dissertation orals, four papers should have been written, with a minimum
of two published, one accepted and one being considered...if I remember
correctly.
Often it is a question of innovations and inventions together with
faculty members. A statistician on a dissertation committee is not at
all unusual and in order to write in English, a student either has to
know the language, has to have a faculty memember on committee who can
help, or hire a person to translate the text or edit it. A bigger
question in my mind whether or not the writer is being acknowleged. A
translator must be mentioned unless he/she does not want to be
mentioned, normally in the acknowledgement section. The person could be
on the writing team if it is a question of a substantial writing
endeavor.
Journals require that everyone serving as a writer has had a part in the
writing and journals also specify that the corresponding author may be
responsible for coordinating the authorships and changes within the
committee.
So, is it a question of writing or some other issue?
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dos. Ansa Ojanlatva
Dept Public Health
Lemminkaisenkatu 1
20014 University of Turku/Finland
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#41
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 13:04:36 -0800
From: "Karen Denard Goldman & Robert L. Goldman" <rlgkdg@FLASH.NET>
Subject: National Health Education Week 2002
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I am pleased to post the following about national Health Education Week 2002!
kdg
Addressing health literacy, a major focus of health educators, the American
Medical Association, and the pharmaceutical industry,
the National Center for Health Education announces that the National Health
Education Week theme for 2002 (the third week in October, 2002) is...
Medicine Education: What Children Need to Know.
National Health Education Week (NHEW), coordinated by the National Center
for Health Education (NCHEC) has been actively supported and promoted by a
number of partners, including the Society for Public Health Education
(SOPHE) , the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and more
recently, other organizational members of the Coalition for National Health
Education Organizations, and corporate sponsors (depending upon the theme).
NCHE and SOPHE and the CDC, as the 1998 Joint Committee for the Development
of National Health Education Week, created a National Health Education Week
planning guide which continues to be relevant. As the date approaches,
NHEW will partners produce and post and prepare to distribute as widely as
possible theme- related information and resource material on their web
sites. NCHE still gets requests for and send out free of charge the
"Planning and Conducting Community Campaigns" guide which continues to be a
support tool for NCHE's annual health education themes navigating the user
through the many steps and processes for
celebrating local health education efforts.
Everyone on this list serv is invited to mobilize their organizations to
endorse, support, and participate in the eighth National Health Education
Week Campaign: Medicine Education: What Children Need to Know.
Letters of support, distribution of materials, and links to the sponsors'
websites are suggested ways to get involved in this important
initiative. Other ideas and proposals for involving your organization in
this annual endeavor are welcome!
BACKGROUND:
The National Health Education Week initiative originated in 1994. The
third week of October has
since been officially noted as National Health Education Week on the
Federal Calendar and others that document national health observance days,
weeks, or months.
Past Themes
1995 Tobacco Free: It's Elementary
1996 Preventing Violence: Parents and Caregivers Can Make A Difference
1997 Coming To Terms with Germs
1998 Making It To Home Plate: School, Family, and Community Nutrition
1999 Disaster Preparedness
2000 Diabetes and Children
2001 Asthma Prevention, Treatment and Management
2002 Medicine Education: What Children Need to Know
For more information and to discuss a role in Medicine Education: What
Children Need to Know, please contact Lynne Whitt of NCHE at 212-594-8001
x 24 or email: lynne@nche.org.
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