NEW ENTRIES NOW AVAILABLE! Check out April 3rd and 4th. More will be posted as they become available. Pictures will be posted throughout May when I get back to the States.
I hope all of you are well. China is incredible, as you will learn in the coming days. I've met people I'll never forget, seen places over 500 years old, eaten food better than anything in America, made new friends, and even learned a few words in Chinese. My hospital rotations have now ended, so I have a one-week excursion to a few cities on Wednesday, then on to Shanghai, then back home to Texas on May 11th. It's all going by so fast!
I hope all of you are well. China is incredible, as you will learn in the coming days. I've met people I'll never forget, seen places over 500 years old, eaten food better than anything in America, made new friends, and even learned a few words in Chinese. My hospital rotations have now ended, so I have a one-week excursion to a few cities on Wednesday, then on to Shanghai, then back home to Texas on May 11th. It's all going by so fast!
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Dear Tommy,
VERY cool to read your blogs and especially your CHINA adventures. I happened upon your blog while reading up on UT med school faculty, Dr. Mark Farnie, Dr. Colletti-Mann & Dr. Boisaubin. I'm suppose to be studying up on BLACKBOARD software learning to better prepare for my JOB INTERVIEW with them tomorrow (Monday) morning I'm most interested in the Health Ed Coordinator position which Shara just vacated last Friday. I grew up in a family of docs, nurses, teachers & ministers--all helpers, communicators & kind folks. In my college days in the 70s, women were overwhelmingly discouraged from med school so I went on to teach health education in high school, then started my own "women's clinic" in the heady days of the women's health movement, traveled through Europe, worked community health ed & international health projects, went on to settle into public health department here in Houston & raise my daughter. We wanted HER to become a physician, but she told us in 6th grade she was going to Broadway. So what's a parent to do? Support the dream....
She's now at very expensive Syracuse University in NY & we need increased earnings. The med school job doesn't pay much more but I LOVE working with med students, developing clinicians, improving patient care, service delivery, doing the schedules, placements, being helpful...
I know all the job tasks but NOT the Blackboard & LXR computer system. HOW was Blackboard useful to your UT med school experience? If YOU were hiring staff to assist the faculty coordinate the administrative tasks for the 1st year, 3rd year clerkships & 4th year elective students, WHAT are the main characteristics you would prefer? I have a lot of ideas to develop Blackboard and feel most interested in the job to combine my educator background with NEW learning & adaptations to increase Blackboard usage for the students. eg FAQs, links to external sites, images, residency program linkages, NEW to Houston links, hospital & clinic directions, parking info, on-line pre & post-tests, lecture summaries, references, future physician well-being stuff, eg. stress, preventing burnout, impairment, service opportunities in Houston, the valley, international medical corpes, ways to pay off loans, add on course cartridges, links to med school book publishers, pharma company sites, etc. BUT I don't know if they REALLY want a BSEd, Master's in Public Health educator or just a good clerk??? Blackboard & other online learning systems are being used quite heavily in private sector, technical schools & K-12 but it seems the med schools & UT in particular are SLOW to get with the program. Was a "needs assessment" of UT med students done during your past 3 years? Does anybody ASK you want y'all might want posted up to the Blackboard? Is it mainly just INFORMATIVE, go here, your schedule is such & so, do this or that? Estimate what percent of students might want more & WHAT?
Some friends of mine have worked & lived in Bejeing for 5 years. He's a Perdue vet guy, she's French & their 2 girls are bilingual, Chinese, English & French. Their China experience & emails fill a book! Would you like me to ask them to recommend some final places to "must-see" visit before you leave?
Wish I'd seen your blog LAST week.
Oh well, I'd better go prep for the interview:)
Salud
Cathy Courtney
Houston ckorrf@earthlink.net
Tommy can you read this?
Hello, thanks for your kind words. I hope you enjoy our medical school on Monday. Don't hesitate to contact me with any questions you might have.
Good luck!
Thank God you're back online. My mornings haven't been the same since you left.
I'm glad to be back as well. However, I'm traveling "on vacation" to cities outside Beijing now and will be gone for 8 days. Unfortunately I will be ofline once again. I will try and post a few more entries before I go.
Happy cooking!
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