TY - JOUR
T1 - The challenges of organizing an international course in Latin America
AU - Vairo, Filippo
AU - López, Mónica Luján
AU - Cruz, Carolina Uribe
AU - Corrêa, Priscila Gomes
AU - Baldo, Guilherme
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - The Latin American School of Human and Medical Genetics (ELAG) is the main course of its kind in the genetics field in Latin America. Here we describe the main challenges regarding the organization of such event, including how we obtain funding and how we proceed with student selection. Thus, we aim to share our experience with other groups that intend to follow this format to create similar events in other areas in this region of the world.
AB - The Latin American School of Human and Medical Genetics (ELAG) is the main course of its kind in the genetics field in Latin America. Here we describe the main challenges regarding the organization of such event, including how we obtain funding and how we proceed with student selection. Thus, we aim to share our experience with other groups that intend to follow this format to create similar events in other areas in this region of the world.
KW - Educational initiatives
KW - Funding
KW - Genetics in Latin America
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U2 - 10.1590/S1415-47572014000200002
DO - 10.1590/S1415-47572014000200002
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84901674644
SN - 1415-4757
VL - 37
SP - 149
EP - 150
JO - Genetics and Molecular Biology
JF - Genetics and Molecular Biology
IS - 1 SUPPL. 1
ER -