title: Is short-term training useful in international environmental and occupational health projects? Experience from the Balkans and Latin America.
abstract: Short courses/workshops for international training in environmental and occupational health are an important tool for supplementing longer-term training at the graduate-degree level. Considerable collective and shared experiences in short-term training have been accumulated among these 13 projects sponsored by the Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the International Training and Research in Environmental and Occupational Health (ITREOH) program. This article presents general aspects and considerations of short-term training and highlights guidelines drawn from specific experiences with such training activities in Balkan and Latin American countries.
authors.affiliation: Institute of International Health, B-301 West Fee Hall, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1315, USA. petropou@pilot.msu.edu
authors.forename: E A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Petropoulos
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Felknor
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Ivanov
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Loomis
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D004782:Environmental Health; D005061:Europe, Eastern; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D007393:International Educational Exchange; D007843:Latin America; D009316:National Institutes of Health (U.S.); D020380:Needs Assessment / Q000458:organization & administration; D016272:Occupational Health; D016730:Program Development; D015397:Program Evaluation; D012106:Research / Q000193:education* / Q000458:organization & administration*; D013663:Teaching / Q000458:organization & administration*; D013997:Time Factors; D014481:United States