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 27,600 fellowships to physicians from 132 different countries, to whom more than 3,600 observerships in Austrian and American hospitals have been granted.
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Neonatology: Taking Care of the Tiniest Patients
Neonatology is a specialization which deals with the complex health issues related to newborns. The role of a neonatologist comes into play when complications in pregnancy, premature birth, or other birth defects, amongst other aspects, occur. Professionals from both the Children’s Hospital of...
Speak Up about What You Believe In!
What would you do to support a cause that you believe in? Dr. Mark G. Kris from the Memorial Sloan Kettering...
Why We Do What We Do: A Letter from Ethiopia
Can you imagine a young pathologist based in a remote area of Ethiopia, affected by civil unrest and enduring...
A Look into the First OMI Observerships of 2024
The OMI Observership program set off in February with seven observers, arriving in Austria from Armenia, Bosnia...
Neonatology: Taking Care of the Tiniest Patients
Neonatology is a specialization which deals with the complex health issues related to newborns. The role of a neonatologist comes into play when complications in pregnancy, premature birth, or other birth defects, amongst other aspects, occur. Professionals from both...
Speak Up about What You Believe In!
What would you do to support a cause that you believe in? Dr. Mark G. Kris from the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, USA, went the extra mile by publishing a video about the OMI with Medscape. Medscape is one of the leading online global platforms...
Why We Do What We Do: A Letter from Ethiopia
Can you imagine a young pathologist based in a remote area of Ethiopia, affected by civil unrest and enduring complete internet blackouts, would travel over 500 kilometers to reach the capital city of Addis Ababa to access the internet and apply for an OMI seminar?...
A Look into the First OMI Observerships of 2024
The OMI Observership program set off in February with seven observers, arriving in Austria from Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Tanzania, and Ukraine, visiting the Medical University of Vienna and the General Hospital of Salzburg (SALK)....