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Hebrew U. Graduates 64 Doctors
From Developing Lands in 9 Years
JERUSALEM — Seventeen stu-
dents from developing countries,
who have completed a six-year
medical course at the Hebrew
University - Hadassab Medical
School, were guests of honor at a
recent dinner. It marked the end of
a program training 64 physicians
from newly independent states In
Africa, Asia, South America and
Europe since 1961.
This year's graduates, constitut-
ing the fourth class of the course,
included 11 Africans (six from
Ethiopia, two each from Sierra
Leone and Uganda and one from
Tanzania), two students from South
America (Guyana) and four from
Cyprus.
Earlier, students from the Afri-
can countries of Lesotho, Nigeria,
Kenya, Liberia, Rhodesia, Cam-
eroon, Mauritius, Somaliland and
Ghana, and from Nepal and Cey-
lon in Asia, had finished the
course, conducted jointly by the
Israel Foreign Ministry's inter-
national cooperation division in co-
operation with the United Nations'
World Health Organization (WHO).
Among the 17 graduates this
year is a young woman, Rebecca
Ackama George, of Tanzania.
In the future, the aid program
extended to developing countries
by the Hebrew University-Ha-
dassah Medical School will be
changed to include solely train-
ing of teachers for medical
schools, giving BSc students a
two-year MSc course in basic
medical sciences such as bio-
chemistry, microbiology, physiol-
ogy, pharmacology and experi-
mental medicine.
The project is scheduled to begin
in late 1971 with some 10-15 can-
didates from Africa and the Far
East.
In the pre-clinical stage, the
course was given in English, but
continued in Hebrew when the stu-
dents came into contact with the
patients; all the graduating stu-
dents speak fluent Hebrew.
In addition to this year's grad-
uates, . nine students (five from
African countries and four from
Cyprus), who have completed one
year of internship at Israeli hos-
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pitals following their medical stu-
dies in Jerusalem, were present
at the dinner.
J..P. B. Ross, resident represen-
tative of the United Nations' devel-
opment programs in Israel, said
that Israel probably ranks with the
UN as one of the major sources
for training students from devel-
oping countries.
"You are going back not only
as honored, highly trained men,
but also as honorary sabres,"
Ross remarked. "Pay tribute by
all means to the World Health
Organization which helped fi-
nance your training, but do not
forget the country where you
studied and where you put down
personal roots. The Promised
Land Is still the land of very
great promises."
On behalf of the Hadassab Medi-
cal Organization, its director gen-
eral Prof. Kelman Mann, urged
the graduates to keep in touch
with the medical school, adding
"Our house will remain open to
you with love and affection."
Shimon Amir, director -of the Is-
rael Foreign Ministry's division of
international cooperation, mention-
ed Israel's new polite), of assistance
in training teachers for medical
schools, noting that the medical
school jointly with the Internation-
al Cooperation Division now is
launching a program for training
staff for a microbiology unit
the Haile Selassie I University
in Addis Ababa.
Speaking on behalf of his fellow
students, Theodore A. Jarrett, of
Sierra Leone, expressed the ap-
preciation of the graduates and
said that "we are aware what is
awaiting us in the battle against
disease and poverty." He voiced
our hopes and wishes for Israel,
for peace and tranquility."
At the end of the ceremony, Dr.
Zvi Oster, - assistant dean of the
medical school, presented the stu-
dents with the Hebrew University
Medal while Amir presented them
with a book on Jerusalem on be-
half of the foreign ministry.
Dr. Oster said That the African
students had excelled in research
while in Jerusalem. Nine of the
64 graduates had taken a year
out of their regular studies to do
research and obtain an addition-
al degree as master of medical
sciences, giving them an addi
tional qualification as teachers
at medical schools — a larger
proportion doing research than
among Israeli students.
Their knowledge. of Hebrew at
times has benefited Israelis work-
ing in aid programs in Africa, Dr.
Oster said, singling out the case
of an Israeli child who was treat-
ed for a wound at an emergency
ward in a hospital in Nigeria and
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Lauren Iden, 17, a student at the
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Seventy-five college delegates
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of Berkley High School, where
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was helped by a Hebrew-speaking
African physician.
Dr. Oster stressed that training
of 64 doctors for Africa is a mere
trifle, but as some of them become
teachers at medical schools, their
influence on medicine in Africa Is
much greater than this number of
graduates warrants.
Dr. Oster emphasized most of
them were as good as their Israeli
fellow-students and some even
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