Fw: [Cz-L] Looking East

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From: "Gad Rennert" <rennert_at_tx.technion.ac.il>
Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2013 11:44 PM
To: "Anna Kofner" <akofner_at_hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Looking East

> without generalization:
> Of all the medical doctors who came to Israel in the 90's, 1/3 elected not
> to take the formal examination required for a license, 1/3 took it and
> failed (numerous times) and ended up not practicing medicine, 1/3 passed
> it, some after the first attempt , some after more. This is after 6
> months free of charge courses provided by the government, and exams that
> were given in Russian.
> The people are mostly wonderful people, I am employing quite a few of them
> (from all three groups), but many have not been trained at a level that
> even comes close to our usual western level.
> BTW - a private hospital in the former USSR doesn't guarantee good medical
> practice, only better conditions and somewhat better access to some
> technologies- thus mostly the shell. This is why many still go abroad for
> treatment, especially in cancer.
> The younger generation studying in Israel is of course not different at
> all from the non-immigrant students.
>
> Gadi
>
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> From: "Anna Kofner" <akofner_at_hotmail.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2013 10:11 PM
> To: <hardy3_at_bezeqint.net>; "Abraham Kogan" <akogan_at_netvision.net.il>;
> "'Jacob Greenberg'" <grs_software_at_bigpond.com>; "Cornel Fleming"
> <cornel.fleming_at_virgin.net>
> Cc: <czernowitz-l_at_cornell.edu>
> Subject: RE: [Cz-L] Looking East
>
>> My friend is a practicing MD who worked at the Regional hospital before
>> retiring last year. She still works part time at a private practice. To
>> make sure that her information is up to date, she called her friends who
>> work in those places to verify.
>> BTW. The Doctors trained in former USSR are practicing all over the world
>> and are very successful.
>> It is not the lack of talents, but the lack of money that prevent the
>> needed reform of the Health system.
>> Sometimes you learn more when you are NOT a part of an official
>> delegation, specially when you deal with former Soviet Republics.
>> Anyway. I would save the names of the private clinics, in case you need
>> help when you are in Czernowitz.

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