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Katrina med students can attend in Israel
Pass this on to any flooded-out students you know -- substantial and useful aid from Israel. :-D
Medical students unable to attend the Katrina-ravaged Tulane University in New Orleans can attend Tel Aviv University's Sackler School of Medicine. In addition, any college student from the Gulf area affected by the storm may apply late for the University's Lowy School for Overseas Students, which is waiving deadlines and some requirements to make room for Katrina's victims. "In tragedies such as this, you desperately want to help, and these are two things the university can do -- offer academic sanctuary to Tulane medical students and an overseas program to other Gulf-area students whose campuses have been destroyed," said Itamar Rabinovich, president of Tel Aviv University. The Tel Aviv Medical School doesn't begin until the end of October, providing time for transferring students to make arrangements. Both the Sackler School of Medicine and the Lowy School programs are conducted in English.
Whew! Not many can handle both learning a new language and learning new material!
The American Association of Medical Colleges and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education has plans to help the students and residents affected by Katrina. My university will be part of that. We need first to get a sense of how many students and residents, who has room, how the money is going to be handled, etc. It will take a couple of weeks to a month to get a plan together. I suspect I'm going to be part of this.

Posted by: trailing wife 2005-09-04
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=128555