Author: mdiamond

Migrant Health Crisis: Dr. Shaanan Meyerstein on Working with Refugees

Dr. Shaanan Meyerstein speaks to MSIH students on his experiences working with refugees in various environments, specifically in the migrant health crisis in the US. The MSIH curriculum includes a special focus on Global Health, which uniquely trains the school’s alumni to work in and around some of the most profound health crises across the […]

21st Physicians’ Oath Ceremony at MSIH

In late September, twenty-eight students of the Class of 2023 took their Physicians’ Oath at MSIH’s 21st Ceremony. Several family members came to Israel from the US and Canada to watch their relatives take the Oath, this year administered by Prof. Shimon Glick, a founding faculty member of MSIH. The guest speaker at the ceremony […]

MSIH Student Interns at WHO Regional Office for Europe in Copenhagen

MSIH encourages all of its students to pursue Global Health activities whenever they can. Last year, at the initiative of a student, Bruce Larkin, several first-year students paired off with MSIH alumni to work together during their summer break. Bruce himself went to work with Dr. Patrick O’Connor, (MSIH alumnus, 2003) in his post as […]

“This is what motivated me to become a Global Health Doctor”

Second-year student Bruce Larkin describes the experiences that brought him to study medicine at MSIH and begin training to become a Global Health Doctor. In this photo, he’s seen addressing and encouraging health education volunteers in Niger. A Story all too Common in Niger A woman and her husband walk. It is getting late in […]

Students of the Class of 2023 begin their journey to become Global Health Physicians

In its 21 years of existence, MSIH has always prided itself in the diversity of students it attracts. The entering class of 2023 is no exception. Commencing their orientation last week, (July, 2019), the class is as varied as previous years. Mostly North Americans and returning Israelis, other students hail from China, Moldova, Slovakia, France, […]

MSIH International Clerkships in Action: Peru

MSIH’s varied curriculum includes elements of Global Health during the entire four years of the medical degree program. The capstone event is the unique eight-week 4th-year international clinical clerkships in one of the School’s partner institutions in a resource-scarce setting. We are pleased to give you an overview of the students’ experiences, filmed throughout the […]

Biomedical Engineering Solutions for Resource-Scarce Medical Scenarios – Part III

This is the third article in a series. The first article is here, and the second here. A week prior to the MSIH graduation in May 2019, students made their final presentations. Before the Directors of MSIH and the Biomedical Engineering Department, the teams explained their projects, thoughts, and ideas, then displayed iterative prototypes – […]

In Mexico I saw an attitude that sometimes eludes Western medicine but shouldn’t…

By: Aaron Hochman-Zimmerman Mexico City is huge. It is one of the largest cities in the world; but it is a city of cities. It is sectioned up so that each new neighborhood has a different character and different experiences to share. And the city, its people, do want to share. The people there were […]

Medical School Graduation Celebrates 27 New Global Health Physicians

May saw the graduation of the Medical School for International Health Class of 2019. Twenty-seven new physicians joined the ranks of the select few doctors who are specially-trained to work in the Global Health arena. Altogether, in its 21 years of operation, MSIH has graduated 597 MDs, many of whom are making their contribution to […]

Columbia University Medical Students Join MSIH International Clerkship

Since its inception more than 20 years ago, MSIH has been associated with Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Columbia assists MSIH students in finding placements for 4th year US Clerkships for international medical students, Columbia faculty visit MSIH to deliver lectures and courses, and several Columbia students have taken electives at MSIH’s principal […]

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