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Building Bridges in Anatomical Sciences and Medical Education: Brazil and US, one step closer
Author(s) -
Curcio Daniella F.,
Laitman Jeffrey T.
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
the faseb journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.709
H-Index - 277
eISSN - 1530-6860
pISSN - 0892-6638
DOI - 10.1096/fasebj.2018.32.1_supplement.631.8
Subject(s) - outreach , medical school , library science , medical education , political science , medicine , computer science , law
Building Bridges (BB) is an international outreach initiative to foster collaborations and exchange experiences in anatomical sciences among students, researchers, and educators from Brazil and the US. BB began in April of 2015 with a mini‐symposium at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. This was followed in November 2015 by lectures, colloquia, and student‐faculty exchange sessions in Sao Paulo (Santa Casa School of Medical Sciences), Ribeirao Preto (University of Sao Paulo School of Medicine, USP‐RP) and Rio de Janeiro (Medical School of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, UFRJ). Here we report recent BB activities that took place in Rio in November 2017. Presentations were held in the Brazilian National Academy of Medicine (BNAM) and at the Medical School of the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO). Dr. Rossano Fiorelli, Member of the BNAM, Chief of the Department of Surgery and Vice Dean of the School of Medicine and Surgery at UNIRIO effectuated the meetings. At the BNAM the event was a Symposium on Advanced Topics in Cervical Surgery. One of us (JL) gave a plenary lecture addressing our current research in developmental and evolutionary anatomy of the larynx, which is funded in part by grants to us from CNPq (Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico/National Council for Scientific and Technological Development). The talk was attended by members of the BNAM, in addition to clinicians, anatomists, and many medical students from Rio. Students representing the academic organizations known as “Anatomy Leagues” awarded JL a special recognition for his, and BB, outreach initiatives, which made this meeting a historic one at the BNAM. At UNIRIO, JL lectured on advances in anatomical and surgical education, and current issues in curriculum design to faculty, resident physicians and students from medical schools in Rio. Following, there was an open exchange and discussion of advances (e.g., use of new technologies such as laparoscopes and robots in teaching in the US) and difficulties (e.g., obstacles in medical education at state universities in Brazil, and shrinking curricular time in the US) in medical education sensu lato in Brazil and the US. The active participation of students, residents, and faculty, including many members of the BNAM, showed a clear and growing interest in the Building Bridges initiatives and the great value of cooperation between the anatomical communities of the two countries. Support or Funding Information Meeting support funded in part by The Anatomical Record ; Research reported funded in part by CNPq grant PDE #249582/2013–9 This abstract is from the Experimental Biology 2018 Meeting. There is no full text article associated with this abstract published in The FASEB Journal .