Nurses Take the Lead: Palliative Care Shines in Armenia
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, and the...
Welcome to our New Local Coordinator from Latvia!
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...
Happy Holidays from the OMI!
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...
Learning Abroad, Healing at Home: A Pediatric Success Story in Romania
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...