The Temple of Peace

Temple of Peace, Cathays Park, Cardiff, Wales

Medical Ambassadors: Teaching Medicine Internationally

Language, culture and international exchange of virtual patients.

QUESTION: Is it feasible to develop a virtual patient based educational program in Romania, with cases in English, and developed in a non-Romanian setting?

METHOD: 4th year Romanian medical students underwent training in English with 8 virtual patients. The cases were taught in both Romanian and English. Several cases came from the U.S.

RESULTS: There were no significant differences between student performance on the Romanian vs. English version of virtual patients.

CONCLUSION: The development of a virtual patient educational program in English appears to be feasible, cost-effective and in accordance with the globalization of medical education, even in countries were English is not the native language.

BMC Med Educ. 2013;13:21

Nobel Peace Center, Oslo, Norway

Nobel Peace Center, Oslo, Norway

Peace Blvd East

Hiroshima Peace Blvd view towards East - Downtown Hiroshima

Public Health Ambassadors

Public health managers: ambassadors, coordinators, scouts, or guards?

CONTEXT: Middle managers are increasingly required to work with, and between, many groups within an organization ("boundary spanning,").

PARTICIPANTS: Fourteen administrative and team public health managers.

SETTING: An urban-rural public health unit in Ontario, Canada.

RESULTS: The participants' more frequently engaged in the ambassador, coordinator, and scout categories of boundary spanning than behaviors in the guard category.

CONCLUSION: Boundary spanning appears to be an essential function for public health managers. The most positive type of boundary-spanning is ambassador type behaviors, which can lead to improved group performance.

J Public Health Manag Pract. 2013 Nov-Dec;19(6):562-8

High school students as ambassadors of CPR

BACKGROUND: Those trained in CPR have a mean age of 30, but those most likely to witness out-of-hospital cardiac arrest have a mean age of 65.

OBJECTIVE: can high school students be trained to be ambassadors to train older adults how to effectively perform CPR?

RESULTS: Each high school student ambassador trained an additional 3 people, of which 40% were aged 50 or older. Training by the high school ambassadors was effective in teaching proper CPR technique.

CONCLUSIONS: People trained at home with a manikin-DVD set and high school students as facilitators were able to perform CPR properly.

Resuscitation. 2010 Jan;81(1):78-81

World Peace

World peace by ibrahimabutouq