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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Why We Do What We Do: A Letter from Ethiopia
Can you imagine a young pathologist based in a remote area in 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? That journey is exactly what Dr....
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...
OMI Hosts First Cardiology Seminar in Mexico
This week, the OMI kicked off the first of thirteen OMI MEX seminars scheduled for 2024. None other than Dr....
Prioritizing Women’s Health!
Obstetrics and Gynecology are defined as a branch of medicine that specializes in the care of women during...
Why We Do What We Do: A Letter from Ethiopia
Can you imagine a young pathologist based in a remote area in 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 the Ukraine, visiting the Medical University of Vienna and the General Hospital of Salzburg...
OMI Hosts First Cardiology Seminar in Mexico
This week, the OMI kicked off the first of thirteen OMI MEX seminars scheduled for 2024. None other than Dr. Robert J. Kim from Weill Cornell Medicine, who has been involved with the OMI in Salzburg since 2007, teaching numerous cardiology courses, led this very first...
Prioritizing Women’s Health!
Obstetrics and Gynecology are defined as a branch of medicine that specializes in the care of women during pregnancy and childbirth and in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the female reproductive organs. Some specific topics are illnesses during pregnancy,...