Showing posts with label Donate Used Medical Textbooks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Donate Used Medical Textbooks. Show all posts
January 22, 2013
First Shipment Arrives Naghlu, Afghanistan
July 19, 2012
Team to Hand Deliver Textbooks to Malawi
Los Angeles members of an American medical team visiting Daeyang Nursing College (DNC) in August, will hand deliver 250 pounds of medical and nursing textbooks. DNC is located in Lilongwe, Malawi. Its mission is to develop Christ-inspired and competent nurses who provide comprehensive, compassionate and culturally sensitive nursing care to individuals, families, groups, and communities in a global society. DNC's goal is to provide a collaborative teaching and learning environment to achieve this mission. The nursing college currently has a three-year diploma program and is trying to promote to four-year Bachelor of Science Nursing. The book-to-student ratio is one-to-eight.
A special OML shout out of thanks to Esther Kang, RN, with Healthcare Professionals Ministry, for her assistance.
May 6, 2012
Duke University Football Team Delivers Buckeyes' Books
September 10, 2010
NY Times' Readers Respond to OML Article
Operation Medical Libraries (OML), formerly MAA’s Books without Borders, was featured in the Science section of the New York Times on August 31, 2010, which brought world-wide attention to the program. The first correspondence came from a British physician, who had been following OML on Twitter, wondering if OML had a UK operation. Within 24 hours of his email, OML had identified an Afghan province where American and British troops are mentoring local medical professionals, and his books could be sent there.
Since the article first appeared, there has been a spike in OML Website visitors and a steady flow of emails, including one from a pediatrician at CSI Hospital in Bagalore, India, who asked how he could participate. A psychiatrist in Cape Cod packed up medical textbooks while she waited for Hurricane Earl. Large medical universities and hospitals scattered throughout the country are interested in sponsoring OML drives.
The response from the OML military point of contacts (POC) resonates with appreciation. “Hey, I was on R&R!! The books have been coming in, and my boys put them in the conex (container express) for me. WOW, are there any books left in the USA? I have already had a request from outlying army clinics for books. So this is great. I cannot thank you enough,” emailed P. Aitchinson, USA Army nurse, Director of the Afghan Trauma Mentorship Program Task Force.
As the article stated, more than 27,000 new and gently used medical textbooks have been donated to Afghanistan. Using a conservative estimate of $50 per book, the value of these educational materials is $1,350,000 and increasing daily, as new donations are sent.
OML has libraries in four Afghan provinces. It provides educational resources to hospitals, clinics and two of the eight Afghan medical schools, including the premier Kabul Medical University that graduates approximately 360 students every year. Overall, 1,000 students graduate from the medical schools in Afghanistan.
During the time of the Taliban, medical models, and even posters, of organ systems, were not allowed in the classrooms. Pictures in books were also banned. Thus the Afghan medical schools are so desperately in need of such books.
An Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Jacobi Medical Center in Bronx, New York, ordered a new copy of A Comprehensive Study Guide for S. Holtzclaw, deployed in Kabul as liaison, GIROA Office of the Surgeon General. In an email to the donor, Holtzclaw wrote, “Everyone here is extremely grateful for any donations and your generosity. We can certainly use ANY medical texts, especially those concerning Emergency Medicine, with the surge of combat casualties of late. Many thanks!”
To read the New York Times article,>OML Website and click on Resources and Publicity tab.
July 21, 2010
OML Continues to Provide Training Resources for Afghan Trauma Mentorship Program
For over 18 months, OML has been providing textbooks for the Afghan Trauma Mentorship Program in Bagram, Afghanistan. The current director of the two-week program is an amazing US Army nurse. Here are some of the photos she took of her students using the OML resources.
May 14, 2010
OML Salutes Dr E.H. Munro Medical Library within St Mary's Hospital and Regional Medical Center in Grand Junction, Colorado
The Dr E.H. Munro Medical Library within St Mary's Hospital and Regional Medical Center in Grand Junction, Colorado is in the process of sending a large amount of journals, textbooks and software to the University of Health Sciences in Antiqua. The library is fortunate to currently have Tyler H., a young volunteer who is responsible for getting these items packed securely to survive the trip to Lyzette Roman, whose office is in Puerto Rico. Hopefully Ms. Roman has a 'large' office, as we have already sent 61 boxes of just journals, and will be sending textbooks and software when the volunteer gets them packed up. The challenge is finding enough smaller boxes, so this can all go by USPS at Library Media rate [which has a maximum of 70 lbs!!].
Mark McKenney, the medical librarian, managed to get four oncologist MDs to donate a large number of oncology journals that they had access to electronically via their various medical associations they belong to. Mark also contacted the local nursing education department at Mesa State College [also in Grand Junction, CO], and the faculty came up with several large boxes of textbooks/journals/software that were picked up on May 12 2010, and those will also be going to Antiqua.
March 10, 2010
University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria Weighs In BIG
University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria is in the middle of a very successful OML drive. To date, they have collected and sorted by subject (OB/GYN, surgery, trauma, pediatrics, etc.) 15 very heavy of boxes. A big OML thanks to Molly M., a third year medical student, for organizing this book drive. Way to go, Molly!
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