Latest regional news
16/Nov/2010
From 24 to October 28 were held in Chile last several meetings designed to share with organizations and health institutions in Chile on the prospects of bringing the Node VCPHChile and to specify an action plan in the short term Node Virtual Campus Public Health in Chile under the leadership of the Ministry of Health, PWR-Chile and the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Chile ASOFAMECH.
Dr. Jose B. Jardines, Coordinator of the VCPH gave a presentation on the Virtual Campus of Public...
16/Nov/2010
In order to analyze the prospects of creating a node of the Virtual Campus of Public Health (VCPH) in Uruguay was held in Montevideo from 17 October 21 different meetings with representatives of PAHO and leaders of institutions Uruguay developments in the field of e-learning in health.
These exchanges also aimed to assess the current development of the National Observatory of Human Resources in Uruguay and the possibilities of creating the Subregional Centre for the Southern Cone.
Meetings were...
16/Nov/2010
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO / WHO) and the Universidad del Norte in Colombia, have issued the invitation to participate in the "Virtual communication Diploma in public health risk."
This Diploma course haven't cost to participants and is for communicators and health professionals from the ministries of Health, and nonprofit organizations, including the United Nations system. The call also goes to teachers and professors of communication faculties of universities in the public or...
11/Nov/2010
Has long been fashionable, at least in the Spanish context, autobiographies or if you prefer the stories of personal experience reconstructed by its protagonists. This is manifested in various artistic and literary genres such as novels, travel books, research journals, essays, etc. Also the gender of audiovisual documentaries are nurtured through recordings, with camera in hand, intense experiences in the journey of a desert, in the ascent to a Himalayan mountain, or coping with a lost tribe...
16/Oct/2010
On October 27th to October 1st, was held at the headquarters of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) in Washington D.C. , Ministers of Health of Member States of PAHO. Among the topics discussed, it was the use of virtual education programs for health personnel to transmit knowledge and skills in health systems based on primary care, highlighting the advantages and rule in favor for this type of learning on the grounds that E-Learning will help to train more human resources in the...
06/Oct/2010
The CIESS node in the network of the Virtual Campus of Public Health (VCPH), offers to the international community a call for the concourse to create the graphic identity of the "Regional Strategy educational program citizenship for social safety culture" Social Security for all."
This program was presented by the Inter-American Social Security Studies (CISS) as part of the XXVI General Assembly of the CISS was recently held in Panama.
The concourse is open to those who wish to participate and...
05/Oct/2010
On October 7 and 8th, 2010, was held in the District of Santa Fe de Veraguas, Panama, the "Meeting of Mayors." This event was attended by mayors and delegates from mayors of the municipalities of Arraiján, Taboga, Santiago, San Francisco, Calobre, Rio de Jesus and Kusapín, and they signed an agreement to promote the Millennium Development Goals, through strategies territorial development of the Ministry for Agricultural Development (MIDA), the strategy Voices Faces and Places (VFP) of the...
30/Sep/2010
Last September was implemented in the portal of VCPH a new Facebook module, the social network with more users in the world.
Facebook is a free website social networking site originally was created for students at the Harvard University , but now is open to anyone with an email account. Users can participate in one or more social networks in relation to their academic status, place of work or geographic region.
This new module will allow greater interaction among the users of the campus as it...
30/Sep/2010
Medical Residency
During days 7 to October 22 will held in the classroom of the Virtual Campus of Public Health (VCPH), Second Virtual Seminary of Health Human Resources which will address the issue of medical residency.
The Medical Residency Seminar aims to open a space for dialogue, exchange and reflection among participants with the purpose of analyzing the general problems of medical residency and identify joint ways to overcome them.
The seminar will consist of two forums as...
30/Sep/2010
On September 21th, developed the 5th meeting of the Technical Team of the VCPH Country Nodes as on previous occasions, was conducted through the Elluminate room intended for exchange of work of the Technical Team on the Virtual Campus of Public Health (VCPH).
This meeting was attended by teams Nodes: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Peru, Paraguay and technical teams of BIREME and the Regional VCPH.
One of the topics discussed was the work in the repository of each country, as part...