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Project Description
Basis
and goal
The Swiss Tropical Institute (STI)
undertakes research, teaching/training and provides services in the fields
of tropical medicine, travel medicine and international health. STI is an
associated institute of the University of Basel. Many members of the STI
staff hold teaching posts (professors, senior lecturers) at the University
of Basel in the faculties of Sciences, Medicine, and Arts (Ethnology). STI
has a well-documented tradition of introducing, applying and evaluating
new didactic and educational concepts in its courses and - owing to its mandate and activities – has spearheaded
interdisciplinary approaches in medicine and science. For example, STI and the University of Basel offer an
interfaculty program in epidemiology up to the Ph.D. level. This is unique
for Switzerland and hardly found in continental Europe. STI is also
associated with the transdisciplinary program „Mensch-Gesellschaft-Umwelt
(Mankind - Society – Environment)“ of the University of Basel. Finally,
the STI offers a 7-weeks module within the new curriculum in biology in
the field of infection biology/parasitology and epidemiology. Besides pursuing an interdisciplinary approach, the courses of STI
in the fields of biology of infection, parasitology and tropical medicine
aim at providing information and experience from the molecular to the
population level. Given
the (1) sound level of expertise and experience, (2) strong link to
modules in the undergraduate and graduate level at the faculties of
medicine and science and (3) the nature and position of the disciplines of
parasitology, tropical medicine, epidemiology and public health, it is the goal of this proposal to develop an innovative approach of WEB-based
training/learning and virtual, interactive learning (distant learning)
complementing traditional approaches. The
main purpose
of this project is the development of a system of software-tools for the
implementation of learning modules for international health issues,
particularly and initially in the fields of (1) tropical medicine, (2)
diagnostics in parasitology, (3) epidemiology, (4) public and
international health.
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