Spring Issue now available!
I am extremely honored to announce the “Spring 2008″ issue of Global Pulse (GP), AMSA’s International Health Journal, is now online!
http://www.globalpulsejournal.com
All of us at GP are excited with this issue. We received incredible submissions from medical students, literally around the world, and from other disciplines as well.
Here is just a sample of what we feature in this issue:
- An exclusive, in-depth interview with Dr. Joxel Garcia, the Assistant Secretary for Health of the U.S., the Medical Director in the Regular Corps of the Public Health Service, and official U.S. representative to the World Health Organization (WHO)!
- WHO’s Global Initiative for Emergency and Surgical Care
- Accounts from Kenya, South Africa, and the Amazon Jungle
- A fantastic photo essay from Guatemala
There is more, and it is available at Global Pulse!
We will update the blog, and the website, in the next couple of days. The blog has many goals, among them:
1) To further discuss and follow up topics that have been covered in Global Pulse.
2) To discuss topics that are timely and important, but have not been discussed in Global Pulse for one reason or the other. For example, it is difficult obtaining an article from a medical student in the middle of a war or conflict.
3) To provide student leaders in global health a forum in which to communicate directly to medical students. For example, writing about a relevant and timely topic regarding their area of expertise, or the organization they represent, or
of a project they have done.
GP is completely funded by AMSA (means not sponsored by Big Pharma or other third parties), entirely run by medical students (that have to study for boards and work the wards!), and like every AMSA project, we are passionate about what we do! Please forward our journal widely, and help make this exciting AMSA project even better!
This is done for YOU, the reader, and as such we would be delighted to read your comments and suggestions on our blog. Feel free to comment away!