The Jerusalem Report – Article about MSIH

MSIH was featured this month (December 2018) in the Jerusalem Report highlighting MSIH’s 20th anniversary and students throughout the years who chose to attend MSIH. “‘The cross-cultural experience at BGU ‘has shaped and had a transformative influence on what I do,’ says Dr. Javeed Sukhera, assistant professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at Western University, London, Ontario, Canada. […]

Engineering Solutions for Medical Challenges in Resource-Scarce Settings

From Medical Challenge to Engineered Solution A device for locating veins for intravenous insertion in dehydrated patients in Africa A system to remotely monitor whether TB patients in Sri Lanka have taken their critical medicine A method for automatically recording and collating spine curvature in patients in Ethiopia A syringe for self-administration of drugs by […]

MSIH 4th Year Student Publishes His Story in “WorldView,” the Peace Corps Magazine

“I felt drawn to the thought of studying medicine overseas, in Israel, and on the campus at Ben-Gurion University at Soroka Hospital where the patients receive treatment for especially rare congenital and infectious diseases and speak such languages as Hebrew, Arabic, Russian, and Amharic. Ben-Gurion accepted my application to study medicine. It all seemed like […]

MSIH Alum, Dr. Joseph Sakran, speaks on the epidemic of Gun Violence in America

MSIH alum Dr. Joseph Sakran is now an Assistant Professor of Surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, specializing in trauma surgery. He’s also a survivor of gun violence. At age 17 he was shot in the throat after a high school football game. As both a trauma surgeon and a survivor of gun violence […]

Cultural Humility in Global Health- musings by a current MSIH student

by Stephanie Sestito (MSIH Class of 2021) Like many terms that get bandied about in global health (which is, in itself an amorphous and ever-changing term), cultural humility isn’t a simple or straightforward concept. I’d like to share with you my personal definition and some of the strategies that I envision as being a part of […]

Taking the Physician’s Oath – And Looking Ahead to the “Global Health Path” in Medicine

“It took a few years to discover my true direction. A new physician starting on the global health path encounters many twists, turns and detours along the way – but that’s to be expected in our field. The journey is complicated and challenging, but always exciting and interesting. The secret is never to lose sight […]

MSIH Partner Clinics Come Together to Discuss Double Burden of Disease in Global Health

Celebrating Global Health To celebrate MSIH’s 20 years of teaching Global Health physicians, in October 2018, the school held a two-day seminar to recognize its achievements and bring together its many partners from around the world. The first day of the seminar centered around a conference on the pressing topic of the double burden of […]

The MSIH Global Health Scholarship – All the Information You Need to Apply

Sifting through medical school scholarships can be a bit overwhelming and while the idea of graduating medical school debt-free may seem impossible, there are a few scholarships available that make a free medical education possible.  A select group of medical schools offer full merit based scholarships, including Ben-Gurion University’s Medical School for International Health (MSIH).  […]

Understanding MSIH and the Medical School Application Process: Q&A

  Applying to medical school can sometimes seem a bit overwhelming. Applicants often have many questions prior to and during the application and admissions process. At MSIH, we try to make the medical school application process as seamless as possible for applicants. While most information is available online, here are some of the most frequently […]

Volunteer Opportunities in Medical School – MSIH Students Teach First Aid to Bedouin High School Students

The article below is an account by two MSIH students, Jenna Meyer and Aaron Hochman-Zimmerman, of their interaction with Bedouin high school students.   “What would you do if someone collapsed right in front of you?” “Isn’t it better to just take someone to the hospital yourself?” “Is it true you can use toothpaste to […]