Dear Sir or Madam,
A short time ago I sent you an invitation to participate in an international online survey pertaining primarily to (Gross) Anatomy training of medical students conducted by the Department of Anatomy at the University of Kiel, Germany. The survey has been extended. Therefore, your institution may still participate until the end of February 2009. In order to obtain meaningful data from more than 160 countries regarding this what we believe to be a rather important topic, we depend on the participation of each institution receiving this e-mail message. I would, therefore, once again like to ask for your assistance.
SHOULD YOU BE INVOLVED IN TEACHING ANATOMY (ESPECIALLY GROSS ANATOMY) TO MEDICAL STUDENTS, I would greatly appreciate your participation in our survey by completing and submitting the online questionnaire. Should you have already begun answering the questionnaire, your previous answers have been saved and you may continue at any time.
You may access the questionnaire (preceded by information about this survey) using the following link:
https://secure.2ask.net/0001/a55626138aae0c2f/survey.html?t=w49g87&l=en
SHOULD YOU NOT BE INVOLVED IN TEACHING ANATOMY AND/OR ANOTHER COLLEAGUE AT YOUR INSTITUTION IS MORE FAMILIAR WITH THE SUBJECT COVERED IN THIS SURVEY, may I ask you to forward this e-mail to him/her. Should you have already forwarded my previous e-mail message, I would appreciate it if you could forward it again, since we have not yet received a completed questionnaire from your institution. Please note that the questionnaire accessed via the above mentioned link may only be submitted once.
For the purpose of analyzing this extensive survey, it would be helpful to know whether or not this e-mail was received by the appropriate recipient at your institution. Therefore, may I kindly ask you to reply with a short confirmation notice. Please mark the following most applicable reply with an (x), enter the name of your institution, city, and country and return this e-mail to me.
( ) The invitation e-mail to participate in the online survey was sent to a colleague who teaches (Gross) Anatomy to medical students at our university.
( ) Our institution does not offer anatomy instruction for medical students.
( ) Our institution offers anatomy instruction for medical students. However, I am not familiar with the e-mail addresses of colleagues responsible for such instruction.
( ) It is not possible to forward this e-mail to an appropriate colleague due to the following other reason:
Institution (university, medical school, or similar):
City:
Country:
Should you have any questions regarding this survey, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Thank you very much for your support!
Sincerely,
Michael Schuenke
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Prof. Dr. med. Dr. rer. nat. Michael Schuenke
Head of Department
Department of Anatomy
Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel
Olshausenstr. 40
24098 Kiel
Germany
Phone: +49 (0)431 880 3081
Fax: +49 (0)431 880 1557
E-mail: schuenke@anat.uni-kiel.de