OMI NEWS
Addressing the Shortage of Oncology Professionals in Latin America
After a long summer break, OMI is back in Mexico City for another episode of our expanding Latin American program. With representatives from...
Changing Lives through Spine Surgery with Weill Cornell Medicine
While building traditional homes in rural Ethiopia, two brothers suffered devastating spinal injuries after a fall. Four days later, they were...
Diagnostic Imaging: Where Legacy and Innovation Meet
This week at the Open Medical Institute, we hosted our annual radiology seminar in partnership with Weill Cornell. 35 fellows from 30 different...
One Country, Two Specialists, and Both OMI Alumni
Botswana is a country of almost 2.5 million people, with 15.4% of the population under the age of 14. Would you believe that there are only two...
Nothing Great Was Ever Achieved Without Enthusiasm
This sentiment describes no one better than Dr. Roy M. Gulick, or “Trip,” as everyone who knows him affectionately calls him. In his day-to-day work...
Imaging Breakthroughs to Help Diagnose Nerve Disorders
When people come together to share their knowledge, lives can be changed or even saved. This sentiment was ever present at the Open Medical...
OMI Welcomes New Local Coordinator for Bulgaria!
Bulgaria is one of OMI’s target countries in CEE, with 808 Bulgarian fellows attending our seminars to date. After many years of supporting...
Caring for Children and their Families in Palliative Care
This week at the Open Medical Institute, we hosted a CME accredited seminar surrounding the extremely impactful topic of Pediatric Palliative Care...
Exploring Vector-Borne Diseases with Institut Pasteur
We kicked off the OMI seminar series with a real showstopper after the summer break: Our annual Global Health course, in partnership with none other...
Happy Summer!
Happy Summer! ☀️🌴⛱️ The OMI is taking a little summer break. Over the next few weeks, Schloss Arenberg is once again welcoming children to the...
Diabesity in Focus: A Call for Action in Latin America
Across Latin America, diabetes, obesity, and lipid disorders have become one of the region's most pressing health challenges. Mexico has one of the...
OMI Made Me the Doctor I Am Today: Bulgaria’s Medical Leaders
22 years after attending his first OMI course, orthopedic surgeon Dr. Dimitar Raykov is now Dean of the Medical University of Varna and a leading...
New Hope for a Child with a Rare Skin Disease in Ethiopia
For Haleta, a five-year-old child in Ethiopia living with congenital ichthyosis, Salzburg may be a world away, yet a connection made at the OMI...
From UTIs to Prostate Cancer: Training Urologists with ESU
From July 12 to 18, 2026, Schloss Arenberg once again became a meeting place for the next generation of urologists during the annual ESU/ Weill...
Inside OMI’s Cardiac Surgery Seminar
Cardiac surgery continues to evolve rapidly, combining technical precision with new technologies, multidisciplinary care, and decades of scientific...
Extreme Heat and Social Media Threats: Tackling Today’s Public Health Challenges
How do we prepare health professionals to tackle complex public health challenges? This question was at the heart of OMI's Public Health Strategy...
When Learning Continues: OMI Otology Symposium in Osijek, Croatia
At the Open Medical Institute, learning does not end with the closing lecture of a seminar in Salzburg. For two young Croatian otolaryngologists, an...
From Otology and Temporal Bone Anatomy Lectures to the Wet Lab
For surgeons, excellence in the operating room begins long before the first incision. This is especially true for otology and temporal bone...
A Woman with a Mission: Dr. Zilola Khadjieva
The term “wonder woman” could have been created for someone like Dr. Zilola Khadjieva. At 34, she is a mother of four, a full-time physician, and a...
A Global Classroom Advancing Women’s Health
Out of 271 candidates, 33 fellows from 24 countries were selected to attend the annual obstetrics and gynecology course, held from June 14 to 20,...
A Deep Dive into the Human Psyche
“Walking into Schloss Arenberg after twelve years was a little like coming home, including seeing old friends and colleagues,” explained faculty...
OMI’s Transformative Story of Maternal and Infant Health
Brick by brick, the OMI has been building a global network of enthusiastic physicians in search of state-of-the-art education for those under their...
The Broader Meaning of Internal Medicine
Internal medicine stands at the heart of modern healthcare. According to Columbia University Irving Medical Center, the field focuses on the...
Advancing Cancer Care Together
How do international educational partnerships translate into better cancer care at the local level? The OMI satellite symposium on Soft Tissue...
Shaping the Future of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care with Weill Cornell Medicine
“This experience was truly remarkable. Being able to learn from world-renowned faculty members alongside an international cohort of fellows was so...