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| OT and PT Textbooks Needed for Afghanistan - Drive Going on Now! |
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by Iris Kimberg MS PT, OTR - October 18, 2010
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Rebuilding Afghan Medical Libraries One Book at a Time
There is an appalling lack of medical literature in Afghanistan. Part of this is from the coups and wars over the last 30 years. Another major reason is the Taliban tenet of forbidding any illustration of the human body as being vulgar. Texts with anatomic depictions have been confiscated and burned. Lectures in the medical schools have been monitored to make sure no drawings were made. Afghanistan is now trying to close the educational gap by building up its medical libraries at all levels– they need our help!
There are already over 50 institutions participating through Operation Medical Libraries, but none from New York - Let's get this books with borders movement going here too - they need OT and PT texts
The Project: I have volunteered to lead the drive for much needed Occupational and Physical Therapy textbooks, with help from the OT and PT Programs at Columbia University
The Goal: Collect new and gently used OT and PT texts and reference materials, dictionaries, all dated 2005-present. Resources published prior to 2005 are accepted, as long as the information is current and relevant. At this point no paper journals are being accepted.
When & Where:This drive will take place starting October 18th and run through November 15th.
Books can be sent to:
(1) Iris Kimberg, MS PT OTR NYTherapyGuide 105 Hudson Street 11N NYC 10013
(media mail rates from USPS is probably the cheapest way to send the books to me)
(2) For staff, faculty or students at Columbia: Pamela Miller, Fieldwork Coordinator of the OT Dept and Risa Granick, EdD, MPA, Director of the PT Dept. have graciously allowed their offices to be drop off points as well.
For More Information:
Visit Operation Medical Library Website at http://opmedlibs.medalumni.ucla.edu
Read August 2010 NY Times article about the program: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/31/health/31library.html
Thanks very much, and please feel free to forward this to a colleague.
Any questions: Contact Iris at infonytherapy@aol.com. If you do not have any textbooks, but would like to help to contribute to the cost of shipping the books to Afghanistan please let me know.
Iris Kimberg MS PT, OTR, has worked in the non-clinical aspect of therapy for the past 27 years. She is the founder of NY Therapy Guide (www.nytherapyguide.com), a site dedicated to the growth, viability and success of therapists in private practice. Iris offers workshops, workbooks and private consultations on business topics related to private practice. She teaches Marketing and Entrepreneurship in the DPT Program at Columbia University, and writes the Taking Care of Business Column for Merion Publications. Iris can be reached atinfonytherapy@aol.com.
The viewpoint expressed in this article is the opinion of the author and is not necessarily the viewpoint of the owners or employees at Healthcare Staffing Innovations, LLC.
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