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  Open Medical Institute

The Open Medical Institute (OMI) is an educational initiative for medical professionals which aims to improve healthcare on a global scale. Fellows trained by the OMI are equipped to significantly enhance healthcare delivery in their home countries. The program was founded in 1993 by the American Austrian Foundation (AAF) and the Open Society Foundations (OSF) in close collaboration with physicians from Weill Cornell Medicine. Over the past decades, many leading medical institutions in the United States and Europe have joined this initiative by providing highly committed faculty who donate their time and expertise, sharing knowledge and experience with colleagues from around the world. Since 1993, the OMI has awarded more than 29,000 fellowships to physicians from 138 different countries, to whom more than 3,700 observerships in Austrian and American hospitals have been granted.

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Dynamically Assessing Healthcare Economics

Dynamically Assessing Healthcare Economics

The fifth edition of the Economic Evaluation in Healthcare seminar brought together 38 healthcare professionals and researchers from 27 countries for an intense, intellectually stimulating week of collaboration and learning. Our dynamic seminar in partnership with Maastricht University continues...

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Dynamically Assessing Healthcare Economics

Dynamically Assessing Healthcare Economics

The fifth edition of the Economic Evaluation in Healthcare seminar brought together 38 healthcare professionals and researchers from 27 countries for an intense, intellectually stimulating week of collaboration and learning. Our dynamic seminar in partnership with...

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The Importance of Community and Care with Duke University

The Importance of Community and Care with Duke University

From April 6-12, 2025, the OMI concluded another successful chapter in its long-standing partnership with Duke University, marking the conclusion of this year's Family Medicine seminar. This year’s course focused on geriatrics, part of a three-year rotating curriculum...

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Gastrointestinal Health for Kids in Bulgaria

Gastrointestinal Health for Kids in Bulgaria

From March 25 to 27, 2025, Dr. Almuthe C. Hauer, OMI faculty and an internationally renowned pediatric gastroenterologist from the Medical University of Graz, conducted a visiting professorship in Varna, Bulgaria. OMI alumna and local organizer Dr. Ruzha Pancheva...

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Evolving Leaders in the Mexican Healthcare System

Evolving Leaders in the Mexican Healthcare System

“Fabiola Pérez Juaréz – 2010” reads the name tag of a doctor who warmly welcomes us at the OMI leaders’ reunion held on March 26, 2025, in Mexico City. 2010? Time flies!It was 15 years ago when the OMI hosted the first Mexican doctors in Salzburg. Pediatric...

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