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Building Bridges in Anatomical Sciences and Medical Education: Brazil and US Expanding Connections
Author(s) -
Curcio Daniella Franco,
Laitman Jeffrey T.
Publication year - 2019
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.2019.33.1_supplement.441.1
Subject(s) - outreach , library science , medical school , medical education , political science , medicine , computer science , law
Since 2015 the international outreach initiative Building Bridges (BB) has fostered collaborations and exchange experiences in anatomical sciences among students, researchers, and educators from Brazil and the US. Following a mini‐symposium at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in 2015, lectures, colloquia, and student‐faculty exchange sessions have subsequently been held in Sao Paulo (Santa Casa School of Medical Sciences), Ribeirao Preto (University of Sao Paulo School of Medicine, USP‐RP) and Rio de Janeiro (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, UFRJ; Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, UNIRIO; and the Brazilian National Academy of Medicine), from 2015–2018. Here, we report the upcoming BB activities held in November 2018. This year, we addressed the “Anatomy Leagues” of students at the Santa Casa School of Medical Sciences and our first solely post‐graduate audience (speech‐language pathologists and otolaryngologists) at the Center for Voice Studies. At the Santa Casa School of Medical Sciences, the lectures focus on educational advances, while at the Center for Voice Studies, the keynote speech center on science and our current research in developmental and evolutionary anatomy of the larynx, funded in part by grants to us from CNPq (Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico/National Council for Scientific and Technological Development). We also met with deans and departmental and educational leadership in the medical schools, members of the Brazilian National Academy of Medicine and members of the Brazilian Society of Anatomy, in preparation of launching an international exchange program at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and medical schools in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. We hope that by creating opportunities for students to participate in an exchange program in New York, we can help forge new leaderships and role models in medicine and health sciences in Brazil. We expect that our meetings this year continue to enhance the cooperation with the health care, medical and 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 2019 Meeting. There is no full text article associated with this abstract published in The FASEB Journal .