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Young doctors will join the Israeli health system in about a year after completing a special course run by the Jewish Agency and the Ministry of Immigrant Absorption
38 young doctors, recent immigrants from CIS countries, will take part in an accelerated one-year training program that includes a Hebrew ulpan and a preparatory course, at the end of which they will obtain a license from the Absorption Ministry that will enable them to sit for the state medical examination for a license to practice medicine in Israel. During the course the young doctors will reside and study in the Jewish Agency’s Beit Canada Absorption Center in Ashdod.
In recent years the Immigration Absorption Ministry and the Jewish Agency have jointly developed special programs to facilitate the integration of new immigrant doctors, mainly from the CIS and Latin American countries. The aim of the programs is to help immigrant doctors to pass the state medical examinations and to facilitate their successful professional and social integration in Israel.
According to both the Jewish Agency and the Absorption Ministry, course participants will provide at least a partial solution to the problem of the severe shortage of doctors in the Israeli health system.
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