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Wednesday, December 25 • 09:20 - 10:20
Dreams and hopes for the Galil: the establishment of a new medical school

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Bar Ilan University has just opened the first new medical school in Israel for 40 years. We have introduced new learning methods stressing humanism in medicine and active involvement in the diverse local communities around us in Galilee. This deprived, peripheral area is in need of new blood and new ideas in order to combat its endemic health disparities.
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Mary Rudolf

UJIA
Mary made aliyah in 2012 to Israel’s newest medical school. Leaving her life as paediatric professor in Leeds, she and her husband Michael Krom are experiencing the challenges of moving to the Galil and contributing to an initiative that promises to improve health in a disadvantaged... Read More →
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Michael Weingarten

UJIA
Michael is Associate Dean for Medical Education at the Bar Ilan University Faculty of Medicine in Galilee. He is a family physician and a medical ethicist, qualified at Oxford and UCH, and has lived in Israel since 1973. He has published extensively on the health of Yemenite Jews... Read More →

Wednesday December 25, 2013 09:20 - 10:20 GMT
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