Breaking Global Barriers to Medical Education
Every patient, everywhere in the world, deserves access to a well trained doctor.
At OxPal, we are passionate about making sure every clinician & future clinician has the opportunity to fulfil their potential.
We have developed a scalable, low-cost model of medical training across borders to meet local medical education needs. We recruit and train teams at other resource-rich institutions to replicate our model.
We focus our efforts on training medical students and doctors in Palestine, where there is an acute need for accessible, quality and locally tailored training opportunities to overcome barriers to training locally.
Since 2018, we have been innovating in this space. We have broadened our approach from remote lectures to far more ambitious schemes including: running an evidence based medicine research conference, organising a summer school involving flying students from Palestine to Oxford, a medical simulation programme available (free of charge) to every student in Palestine using state of the art medical simulation technology, medical/surgical emergency courses, remote medical research fellowships, remote research mentoring and having Palestinian students join labs in MIT/ Harvard/ Oxford remotely to develop their skills, international journal clubs and many many more. During the COVID-19 pandemic, we temporarily reorientated to support the healthcare systems with programmes such as mass PPE audits to help targeting by aid groups, a public health campaign and crash courses for doctors in COVID-19 management from international experts. Thankfully, we have long since gone back to focusing on our core mission and we are excited to reveal all the things we’ve been working on over the next year.
We have tried to analyse tractable problems with medical education and healthcare delivery in Palestine and then we have sought low cost solutions. We are willing to try anything that helps bring medical education to Palestine and our models can be deployed in austere environments globally. If you have further ideas, please get in contact and let us know.
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