Barbara, I have gleaned a lot of great material from the Focus on Basics website.  Is there a web site that will take me directly to it?  is it the www.ncsall.net address?
 
Mikal Steinbacher
Instructor, ABE/ESL/English
Lake Washington Technical College

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From: healthliteracy-bounces at nifl.gov on behalf of Barbara Garner
Sent: Tue 12/4/2007 10:55 AM
To: Maricel G. Santos; healthliteracy at nifl.gov
Subject: [HealthLiteracy 1547] Re: Medical School curriculum



Dear All,
I've been following this discussion with great interest.

"Focus on Basics" (see http://www.ncsall.net/index.php?id=1150 or http://www.ncsall.net/index.php?id=149 if you're not familiar with the publication) has recently been funded to publish another issue on literacy and health. Our charge is to make this issue a true partnership between health and literacy (our usual audience and writers are the adult basic education/ESOL communities).
What articles do you think should be in the issue? Assume that the readership is adult basic educators and medical students who, unlike subscribers to this list, are not well versed in health literacy.

I look forward to your thinking on this,
Barb Garner

Editor, "Focus on Basics"


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From: "Maricel G. Santos" <mgsantos at sfsu.edu>
Date: 2007/12/04 Tue AM 08:35:07 CST
To: healthliteracy at nifl.gov
Subject: [HealthLiteracy 1537] Re: Medical School curriculum




Dear all --

I teach in a field outside medicine:  applied linguistics, also 
sometimes known as TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other 
Languages), basically, teacher education for future ESL/EFL teachers.  
Last summer, I taught a new course called Seminar in Immigrant 
Literacies which includes a unit on health literacy.  The class is 
directed towards advanced undergrad and grad students in our program 
but we recruit in Health Ed, Nursing, and Public Health.  Last summer 
we had students from the nursing program taking the class alongside 
students from the TESOL program.  The cross-disciplinary dynamic is 
fascinating, with the nursing students learning more about the 
language demands of the health care context, and the TESOL students 
learning more about the health care system and content of health care 
tasks. Both groups come away with a fuller understanding of the health 
care needs of immigrant communities...

I can share the syllabus with interested folks.

Maricel Santos


eQuoting "Zarcadoolas, Christina" <christina.zarcadoolas at mssm.edu>:


> I teach a course in Health Literacy to medical students and MPH students

> at our medical school.

> I'd be happy to share the curriculum.

>

>

> Christina Zarcadoolas PhD

> Dept. of Community and Preventive Medicine

> Mount Sinai School of Medicine

> One Gustave Levy Place

> Box 1043

> New York, NY 10029

> 212-241-0625

> christina.zarcadoolas at mssm.edu

>

>

>

>   _____

>

> From: healthliteracy-bounces at nifl.gov

> [mailto:healthliteracy-bounces at nifl.gov] On Behalf Of klubimir at aol.com

> Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 2:29 PM

> To: healthliteracy at nifl.gov

> Subject: [HealthLiteracy 1529] Medical School curriculum

>

>

> Hello,

>

> I recieve the Health and literacy email discussion and find the breadth

> fascinating and heartening.

> I am a physician,completing fellowship training in specialty of

> Geriatric

> Medicine, at the John A Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii.

> My

> colleagues and I are in the process of developing a Health Literacy

> Curriculum

> for medical students and other physicians in training. A literature

> review has

> had low yield regarding other medical or professional schools

> intergrating the

> topic of Health Literacy into their curriculum.

>

> Does anyone have any knowledge of medical or other professional schools

> incorporating health literacy into their training curriculum?

>

> Thank you in advance for your input.

>

> Karen Lubimir, M.D., D.M.D.

> Fellow,  Department of Geriatric Medicine

> John A. Burns School of Medicine

> University of Hawaii

> Honolulu, HI

>

>

> -----Original Message-----

> From: Julie McKinney <julie_mcKinney at worlded.org>

> To: healthliteracy at nifl.gov

> Sent: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 3:25 pm

> Subject: [HealthLiteracy 1519] Wednesday Question: Policy Wish List?

>

>

> Hi Everyone,

>

> I don't want to interrupt the topic of using TV for ESOL in health

> settings, but

> I want to ask for some feedback for this week's question.

>

> What kinds of policy changes would be helpful to health literacy

> efforts? It

> could be national or state policy, policy within your professional

> system, or

> policy within your specific program. The field is open. Any ideas or

> wishes?

>

> Thanks,

> Julie

>

> Julie McKinney

> Discussion List Moderator

> World Education/NCSALL

> jmckinney at worlded.org

>

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--
Maricel G. Santos
Assistant Professor
English Department, MA TESOL Program
San Francisco State University
1600 Holloway Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94132
415-338-7445 (office)
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