| Following the model of the last year’s school in Toronto the 2nd Canadian School of Neuroscience in Montreal (May 25 – June 4, 2008) brought fourteen students from Africa and Latin America to Canada, unlike the other IBRO schools where tutors travel to their areas.
Class photo in front of AstraZeneca Montreal R&D
Students also had the opportunity to participate in the 2nd Meeting of the Canadian Association for Neuroscience (CAN) where they had an opportunity to present their research in poster sessions.
Fourteen students were selected by members of the IBRO Regional Committees for Africa (ARC) and Latin America (LARC), based on a competitive process from over 100 candidates. The list included graduate students, clinical trainees and junior staff from Egypt, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, Brazil, Colombia and Venezuela. The students were highly motivated and invariably very active participants in all aspects of the school, often surprising the tutors with astute and pointed questions.
The majority of the faculty were members of well recognized centers of pain research in Canada: McGill University Centre for Research on Pain, University of Toronto Centre for the Study of Pain as well as AstraZeneca R&D Montreal.
The course covered selected topics in pain with an emphasis on the interactive sessions with plenty of opportunity for student interaction and discussion including the presentation and discussion of their research.
As is customary with IBRO Schools, on the last day the students elected Class President – actually two co-presidents (Ricardo Cardenas from Venezuela and Gilbert Mbeo from Kenya) and Class Secretary (Nadia Zouhairi from Morocco). Students also completed a brief evaluation of the school with unanimous high satisfaction marks given to each aspect of the school.
Each student received a certificate confirming her/his status of IBRO alumna/alumnus (and a CD with all educational material that complemented the hard copy of the school syllabus). Many students took the stand and were heard expressing their appreciation for what they have learned - about pain, about Canada and about their peers and tutors.
The school was sponsored International Brain Research Organization (IBRO), Canadian Association of Neuroscience (CAN), CIHR Institute of Neuroscience, Mental Health and Addiction (INMHA), CIHR Institute of Human Development, Child and Youth Health, CIHR Institute of Cancer Research, Society for Neuroscience (SFN), Fond de la Recherche en Santé de Québec (FRSQ), McGill University Centre for Research on Pain, Montreal Neurological Institute, University of Toronto Centre for the Study of Pain, AstraZeneca R&D Montreal, Pfizer Canada
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