Dear all,

I'd like to bring to your attention two new initiatives of the IMA-WF aimed at physicians abroad.

1. Taglit for medical students, aged 22-26. This program will be based on the standard Taglit model, with emphasis on elements of special interest to aspiring physicians. Our aim is to recruit about 20 students from all over the world for each trip.

The trip will involve touring cultural, historical and religious sites, as well as trips to scientific and medical institutions and meetings with distinguished physicians.

It has also been suggested to add a half day or day at the Schlesinger Institute for Jewish Medical Ethics at Shaarei Tzedek.

Malke and Tziona and I met with representatives from Taglit who were very positive about the idea of such a program.

We'd be pleased to have your cooperation in helping to recruit medical students for this project.

We would like to launch our first trip at the end of December.

2. Emergency preparedness course

The APF (American Physicians Fellowship) has, for several years, been running a course in emergency medicine for physicians who wish to volunteer in Israel in times of national emergency. We intend to broaden the format and the number of courses and would like to suggest that you, IMA-WF chapters, check to see if you have physicians who may be interested in participating. We aim to propose 10-12 physicians for the upcoming course to be held from November 06, 2010- November 11, 2010.

Initially the course will be available for English speakers only, but once the format proves itself, courses for French speakers will be organized as well.

The schedule will be finalized as soon as we have a sufficient number of participants who are willing to attend.

The program, which is published by the APF, can be found at the following link:

http://www.apfmed.org/apf.php?c=emergency

We enjoin you to appeal to your members regarding Taglit and the Emergency program to see if there is interest in these programs.

Best wishes,

Zeev Feldman, IMA- WF Chairman