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Lecture Series
Oxpal are excited to announce our Infectious Diseases and Metabolism and Endocrinology Lecture VR Course! We are working alongside Oxford Medical Simulation, to deliver these courses. Please sign up to the courses by completing the form which can be found by scanning the QR code on the poster or by completing the form https://forms.gle/1CguNh3wK3GPZ69MA
Collaboration with BTK and JOMI
OxPal are proud to have partnered with the world-leading Behind The Knife (https://behindtheknife.org/premium/trauma-surgery-video-atlas) surgery educational platform to provide high-quality trauma surgery videos free of charge to medical students and surgeons who are currently in Palestine (Gaza, West Bank or Jerusalem). Those who are currently outside Palestine are excluded, but there may be further opportunities in the future.
We are circulating the sign-up form on OxPal’s private Whatsapp and Facebook groups, please get in touch if you don’t have access to these!
OxPal are also proud to have partnered with JOMI Surgical Video Journal.
JOMI have published 230+ professionally-filmed peer-reviewed videos across general surgery, O&G, ENT, orthopaedics and more. Each video provides instructions from incision to closure with key animations and expert insight. These videos are intended to support learning on surgical rotations and foster interest in surgical specialities. JOMI have granted access to all their videos for medical students and doctors currently in Palestine
How to sign up
1. “Sign-up” for an account on the JOMI website >> https://jomi.com
2. Students and doctors in Palestine will be automatically granted access to all JOMI videos
We would like to thank JOMI and BTK for their collaboration for supporting students to expand their surgical interests.
Virtual reality and Medical Simulation Programme
We have secured the right for ALL medical students in Palestine to use world-leading medical-simulation software for free. Turning powerful medical training software from financially inaccessible to a core area of training.
We would like to thank OMS for providing this software, the medical schools for helping administer this project and our technical team for supporting students to make the most of it.
Mentorship Programme
We are currently running a general mentoring pilot scheme, between clinicians and 4th year medical students from the Arab American University (AAUP.) The scheme involves guidance surrounding electives, careers, networking and more. We hope to grow the scope of the programme, following on from the pilot.
Research programmes
We regularly collect and analyse data on ways to improve medical education and medical care in Palestine. If you think you could contribute to our data-driven approach or have ideas for research studies, please get in touch – oxpal.medlink@gmail.com
We have previously run multiple courses on research & research methods, and videos of some of the lectures are available on our YouTube channel.
Summer School 2024
OxPal are in the process of organising the annual Oxford Summer School for Palestinian medical students. The course will be for twenty medical students from the new AAUP medical school based in Jenin, who have completed three years of pre-clinical studies and were about to start their first clinical year, and are selected by the Dean of AAUP. We are also pleased to announce that we will be expanding the Summer School to a group of displaced medical students from Gaza.
When in Oxford, students will attend seminars in communication skills and medical ethics, received clinical skills teaching at the John Radcliffe skills lab and simulation training with OxSTaR (Oxford Simulation, Teaching and Research), and a surgical skills course facilitated by senior surgical trainees and consultants.
OxPal is supported throughout by Dr Richard Harrington, Dr Elize Richards and Dr Katy Boncey. We’re very excited to run this summer school again and look forward to giving as many students as possible this learning opportunity in the future.