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Celebrating over twenty years of innovation in medical education and training tomorrow’s leaders in global health

Kelly Coleman, MBA, Assistant Director Recruitment and Public

Relations

What is global health?Global health is the field of study that concerns itself with improving health and achieving equality in health for all people worldwideThe focus of global health includes individual curative healthcare, as well as population health and preventionGlobal health concerns itself with domestic and cross-border issues. It transcends national boundaries and governments

Why study global health?To have a real impact as a medical practioner attuned to social justice issuesTo work effectively with underserved and sufficiently served populationsTo study medicine alongside other disciplines such as epidemiology, ethics, etc.To gain experience working with diverse communities throughout the world

MSIH is an innovative medical school that prepares physicians to address the impact of cultural, economic, political and environmental factors on the health of individuals and populations worldwide It is a unique medical school that incorporates global health components into all four years of the core M.D. curriculumClasses are small, intimate and challengingAt MSIH, students learn to not only be a doctor, but also a skilled physician working with diverse communities from around the world

Train to work effectively with underserved and sufficiently served populations

An MSIH Doctor Is More Than Just A White Coat

Unique Global Health Focus

English-language track in Ben-Gurion University of the NegevFirst three years of instruction take place in Beer-Sheva, IsraelHebrew instruction in Year 1 of studyYear I and Year II consist of courses in basic medical sciences and medical systems coupled with modules in global health and a year long introduction to global health

course

Global health and medicine clinic days occur in the first and second years

Students are prepared to take the USMLE Steps 1 and 2 on

the same

timeline as

students from US

medical schools

Graduates earn a Global Health Certificate

Medical School for International

Health M.D. Program

Third year clinical rotations are done primarily at Soroka University Medical Center, located on the MSIH campus Soroka serves over 1,000,000 Negev residents, including over 400,000 childrenThere are over 14,000 births annually at SorokaSoroka

yields annually:

32,000 surgeries

200,000 ER visits

500,000 outpatient clinic visits

Students complete a Cross Cultural Communications Workshop, as well as Global Health Days at the end of each clerkship

MSIH Third Year

4th Year ElectivesFourth year electives are completed primarily in the United States and Canada.Due to our affiliation, MSIH students are given priority consideration at Columbia University Medical CenterElectives are also completed at Mount Sinai (NYC), Hofstra and other affiliated hospitals in North America New York and Israel based electives coordinators support students who seek electives at other institutions in the U.S. and Canada

4th Year Capstone Experience:Eight-week global health clinical clerkshipsClinical clerkships offer fourth year medical students the ability to get real-world experience working with underserved populations at approved sitesStudent acquire practical knowledge and master global health competencies Clerkship locations have included India, Nepal, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Ghana, Canada, Mexico, Peru and Ethiopia

Graduates are uniquely prepared for residency placement in the U.S, Canada, Israel & around the worldPath to residency parallel to that of the top medical schools in the U.S.MSIH match rate for fourth year students seeking residency in the United States is on average 93% over the past five yearsIn 2019, graduates were offered residency placements at leading institutions such as Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, St. Louis Children’s Hospital, University of San Francisco Medical Center, and University of Maryland Medical Center

Sampling of 2019 and 2018 U.S. Residency Match Residency Institutions:Case Western Tulane University School of Medicine Tufts Medical Center University of California Irvine Medical Center St. Christopher’s Hospital – PA University of Maryland Medical CenterGeorgetown University University of Chicago Medical Center

Howard University Hospital

University

of Texas HSC-San Antonio

NYU School of Medicine

University of Virginia

Area of Specialty:

Anesthesiology

Psychiatry

Emergency Medicine

Radiology

Family Medicine SurgeryInternal Medicine OB-GYNPediatricsPhysical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Sara Teichholtz,MD (‘16) Earned her BA in Neuroscience at Wellesley College and completed her global health clerkship in The PhilippinesCurrently, completing her residency in Psychiatry at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C.

ALUMNI

Javeed

Sukhera

, MD (‘07)

Earned his Bachelor’s Degree at the University of Toronto, and completed his residency and fellowship at the University of Rochester

Currently he is the Academic Director for Global Health at

Schulich

School of Medicine in Ontario

Ben–Gurion University of the NegevMain Campus is located in Beer-Sheva, Israel, the capital and largest city of the NegevBGU rated #1 for student experience in IsraelBGU has over 20,000 students and 4,000 faculty members

Beer-

Sheva

is Israel’s 4

th

largest city and has become a major center for research and innovation

Students Enjoy An Active Campus LifeClose-knit community of students and facultyOnce in a lifetime opportunity to immerse in the rich culture of IsraelCampus & community activities such as MSIH Student Council, AMSA, BGU Student Association, ASRN, GHM, Hillel International, English Tutoring at the Negev Refugee Center

A diverse, global student bodyOur students represent countries from all over the world, including US, Canada, Israel, Australia, China, Colombia, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Italy, the Netherlands, the Philippines, South Africa, South Korea, United Kingdom and others

MSIH student profileStrong academic record:Average MCAT is 509Average GPA is 3.56Approximately one-third of students are non-science majorsCommitted to volunteer workInterest in global health or public health

Academic and Merit Based Scholarships AvailableApplications received by the end of January receive preferential scholarship review 100% of the 2018 and 2019 entering classes received a scholarship awardApplicants with a demonstrated interest in global health and academic excellence may be considered for the Ben-Gurion Global Health Scholarships awarding significant partial scholarship for all four years of study

Prepare to join the class of 2024!Visit our website at http://msih.bgu.ac.il/Email any questions to msihadmissions@post.bgu.ac.ilCheck out our first-year blog at http://firstyearmsih.blogspot.com