FIMA Year Book 2010-2011 - Federation of Islamic Medical ...

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and outside Palestine, to draw a picture of various
health-related needs.
Various schemes have been adopted and
implemented in areas of patient care. This article
will concentrate on medical training of Palestinian
graduates inside and outside occupied Palestine.
All medical specialties were in real need in both
the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The following
specialties, however, were deemed more urgent in
the milieu of war, aggression and oppressive harsh
measures of Israeli occupation:
• Neurosurgery.
• Cardiovascular and Chest surgery.
• Orthopedic surgery.
• General surgery.
• Ophthalmic surgery.
• Plastic and reconstruction surgeries.
• Anesthesia and Intensive Care.
• Physical therapy and rehabilitation.
• Pediatric psychology and psychiatry.
• Nursing, especially in operating theaters
and intensive care units.
FIMA, realizing the heavy implications and
requirements of this major effort, have worked
diligently to enlist support, collaboration and
commitment of concerned NGOs, institutions and
individuals.
Over the past 2 decades, productive and
harmonious collaboration was conducted with the
following partners , that rendered this major
project a significant success, Alhamdu Lillah.
• The Jordan Committee for Support of the
Health Sector in Gaza-Representing the
four health associations in Jordan.
• The Jordan Committee for medical care of
Palestinians in Jordanian hospitals- The
Jordan Medical Associations.
• Arab Medical Union- Egypt.
• The Islamic Hospital in Jordan.
• World Health Organization (WHO-
EMRO).
• Qatar Red Crescent Society.
• Islamic Medical Society of North America
(IMANA).
• Jordan Society for Islamic Medical
Sciences- Jordan Medical Association.
• Partners International Medical Aid -PIMA.
Experience of the last 2 decades
In the face of various adversities, the process of
training of Palestinian physicians has continued to
proceed over the past 2 decades. Initially, numbers
of trainees were limited. Many of them received
their undergraduate medical training in institutions
with less than the desired standards. As the
process of training continued, graduates of local
Palestinian medical schools formed most of the
trainees in this FIMA-supported project. These
young graduates represented the top class of
students entering medical colleges. Inspite of
major deficiencies in Palestinian medical colleges,
these prominent students maintained high
standards of performance that accompanied them
during their postgraduate training.
We will present here the following types of
medical education and training provided by FIMA
and collaborators:
( 1 ) Medical students from Palestinian medical
colleges:
This took the form of elective training, which was
conducted mainly at the Islamic Hospital in
Jordan, a recognized center of medical education
and training. More than 150 medical students have
been accepted so far. For many of them, at certain
periods of their undergraduate years, there was
unsafe and interrupted access to their medical
schools, in view of the harsh security measures of
the Israeli occupation. To most of them, there was
lack of educational facilities, equipments and
trainers, together with serious lack of medical
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