by Stephanie Faschang | Mar 3, 2026 | Allgemein
In the wake of the 2025 MSKCC Uro-Oncology seminar at the OMI in Salzburg, an idea took shape and quickly turned into action. OMI fellow Dr. Ibsa Daba Kumsa, Assistant Professor of Urology at the Zewditu Memorial Hospital, returned to Addis Ababa determined to build...
by Stephanie Faschang | Jan 29, 2026 | Allgemein
The OMI Satellite Symposium Palliative Care in Nursing, held January 19-20, 2026, in Yerevan, Armenia, was a joint initiative of the Open Medical Institute, the End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC), and the Yeolyan Hematology and Oncology Center. The...
by Katharina Hirsch | Jan 21, 2026 | Allgemein
The OMI is thrilled to welcome Dr. Anna Junga as our newest local coordinator for Latvia! After many years of serving the OMI program as local coordinator and recruiting hundreds of fellows, Dr. Peteris Tomins will step down and hand over the staff to his eager...
by Stephanie Faschang | Dec 19, 2025 | Allgemein
As 2025 draws to a close, it is the ideal moment to pause, reflect, and celebrate the impact we have created together. This past year was truly extraordinary for the Open Medical Institute. We reached a milestone, educating a record 1,937 physicians from 104 countries...
by Stephanie Faschang | Dec 4, 2025 | Allgemein
Earlier this year, Dr. Bettina Boeriu from Hospice Casa Sperantei in Bucharest, Romania, attended the Salzburg CHOP Seminar in Pediatric Pulmonology, where she learned about the cough assist device. Inspired, she brought a pediatric pulmonologist from Bucharest to...
by Franziska Klein | Dec 3, 2025 | Allgemein
In November, 16 OMI observers attended observerships at four of our partner institutions: the Medical University of Vienna, Salzburg General Hospital, the Medical Hospital Graz, and the Medical University of Innsbruck. The participants came from Albania (2), Bosnia...
