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PUBLIC HEALTH PROGRAM
5. Salzburg Seminars
and Internships
The program is co-sponsored by the NY OSI and the American
Austrian Foundation (AAF) gives an opportunity for young
Mongolian doctors to attend 7 days advanced medical
training on designated fields of medicine, which is
held in Austria, Saltsburg every year. The week-long
training in Salzburg, Austria gives an opportunity to
combine skills with a newly gained information and knowledge,
since the visiting physicians take part in workshops
and present cases, experience telemedicine and make
observations at hospitals. The MFOS co-operates to announce
the date of the seminar, to select the doctors, to give
financial support for transportation. The seminar program,
which is going to be held in Saltsburg, in 2003, is
followings:
- ENT - Oncology
- Obstetrics and Gynecology - Anesthesiology
- Emergency care in Pediatrics - Imaging
- Pediatric Emergency Care - Urology
- Internal medicine - Pediatric Urology
- Family Medicine - Pediatric cardiology
- Neurology / neurosurgery - Cardiology
- Neonatology - Bone and Joint surgery
- Infectious disease - Psychiatry
- Blood Banking
The professionals who participated the
week-long training in Salzburg will have the right to
make a request to participate in a month-long training.
Therefore, the professionals who want to participate
in week-long training should introduce new methods and
shared their knowledge and information, which they learned
from a week long training seminar. It is possible to
get an application form from MFOS and American Austrian
Foundation's web side. In last periods from Mongolia
around 90 young Mongolian doctors and professionals
participated in a week-long training and a month-long
training.
Public Health Conferences
Offered by the OSI New York Public Health Program the
Conferences held throughout the year in Eastern Europe
and Central Asia - countries of Soros Foundation network
at selected topics of public health concerns. This program
is a continuation of formerly Schweitzer Regional Conferences
and Mongolia participated in this program since 1998
and organized in-country conferences as well. Every
year in Mongolia MFOS and Schweitzer Institute organized
seminars on followings topics:
In 1998 AIDS and STI
In 1999 Cardiology
In 2001 TB Control: Community Mobilization and Advocacy
In 2002 Evidence-Based Medicine
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