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Medical Students
Study In Israel
LEAH ABRAMOWITZ SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS
E
very year,
more than 100
foreign med-
ical students
do their electives hi
Israeli hospitals.
They train with
doctors and work
with patients of var-
ied ethnic back-
grounds. When they
return home, many of
the medical students
express a feeling of
commitment to Israel
and its people.
"The experience of
working in an emergency ward
has given me a real under-
standing of life in Israel," says
Aaron Spitz, a fourth-year med-
ical student from California.
"I'm seriously considering prac-
ticing medicine here when I fin-
ish."
The International Federation
of Medical Students promotes
the program worldwide. Stu-
dents come from more than 100
countries and generally are
placed in departments of their
choice for periods ranging from
one month to two years.
Tel Aviv medical student Gil
Gilad coordinates the Gush Dan
region's program in seven hos-
pitals.
"Ours is a bilateral arrange-
ment," Mr. Gilad says. "If we
absorb five students from Swe-
den, we send five Israeli med-
ical students to Sweden. The
foreign students are placed in
the department of their choice
and provided with housing, food
and cultural programs. The
same is done for our students."
Only traveling expenses are
not paid, he says.
When students arrive, Mr.
Gilad gives them "the warmest
welcome possible." He provides
the orientation, helps them set-
tle in and organizes trips and
cultural programs to acquaint
students with Israel.
At Jerusalem's Shaare Zedek
Hospital, Dr. Warren Jacob-
sohn, head of the gastroen-
terology department, and his
secretary Karen Davitz have co-
ordinated the foreign student
program for the past 20 years.
In that time, over 1,000 med-
ical students have taken part
in the program.
"The American students tend
to come in their third or fourth
year when they're doing clini-
cal work," says Ms. Davitz. 'The
European students generally
come later, in their fourth or
fifth year."
Ms. Davitz, like Mr. Gilad,
corresponds extensively with
potential exchange students,
making the crucial connections
with department heads and or-
ganizing outings and profes-
sional visits to a health fund
clinic, an old people's home, a
mother and child center and a
medical center. Students make
their own living arrangements.
Michel Abulafia is finishing
his medical studies in France
this year. In the last few years
he has visited Israel a number
of times, volunteering during
the Gulf War and doing an elec-
tive in children's psychiatry at
an Israeli mental hospital. He
arrived in Israel last May for an
additional six-week elective in
Shaare Zedek's pediatric neu-
rology department.
"I've always wanted to live in
Israel," says Mr. Abulafia. "I
even considered studying some-
thing other than medicine be-
cause the studies take so long
and I was impatient to come
here."
American medical student
Mark Sheiner won a scholar-
ship to do his electives at
Shaare Zedek from the Einstein
Medical School in New York.
"My school told me about the
program," he says. "I applied for
the scholarship and wrote an
essay on how nice it would be to
experience medicine among my
own people."
Mr. Sheiner was one of three
out of 150 students to win a
scholarship that paid for his trip
and two-month stay in Israel.
With plans to be an internist,
Mr. Sheiner chose to study with
the gastroenterology depart-
ment.
"I found a very close doctor-
patient relationship in Israel,"