University of Rochester hosts medical specialists from NIS (10/20/96)

University of Rochester hosts medical specialists from NIS

ROCHESTER, N.Y. - The USAID Medical Education Partnership and Training Project, a federally funded grant to aid in the reorientation of medical education in Russia and Ukraine, is bringing four new faces to the University of Rochester this fall. After arriving on September 21, the visitors are spending three months at UR, learning about the U.S. medical education system by working on ward teams and completing independent research projects.

Whereas last year the partnership project brought eight Russian and Ukrainian senior medical students to UR, this year the project is bringing both students and residents/junior faculty.

Nataliya Pertsev, a student from Dnipropetrovsk State Medical Academy, will be doing her rotation in internal medicine. Ekaterina Kotlyarevska, also from Dnipropetrovsk, will be doing her rotation in pediatrics. Anatoliy Estrin, a resident from Dnipropetrovsk State Medical Academy, will be completing a fellowship in internal medicine. Representing Russia, Sergei Martienko, a junior faculty member of Kazan State Medical Academy, will be completing a neurology fellowship.

In addition to the four visitors at UR, the partnership project is arranging for two more groups of students and residents/junior faculty to complete rotations at the Yale University School of Medicine and SUNY Syracuse Health Science Center. Dmitry Albin and Vitaly Ermolin from Kazan State Medical Academy will be completing internal medicine rotations at Yale. SUNY Syracuse will be hosting Lidiya Gomenuck, a student from the National Medical University in Kyiv, for a pediatric rotation.

Syracuse will also be hosting two junior faculty this fall. Olena Dostenko, from the National Medical University in Kyiv, will be completing a fellowship in internal medicine. Elena Andreicheva from Kazan State Medical Academy, will be completing a fellowship in internal medicine/cardiology.

In addition to their formal work, the UR visitors will be eager to become acquainted with their students and resident peers and learn from them what studying medicine in the U.S. is "really like." To contact the visitors, call the project office, (716) 275-0732, for their e-mail addresses and telephone numbers.