In 1996, in affiliation with Columbia University Medical Center, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Faculty of Health Sciences instituted a four-year M.D. degree program to graduate doctors with special skills in primary care and community, preventive, and population-based medicine.
The program has been expanded to become the Medical School for International Health (MSIH), and the MSIH is fully accredited as the second medical school of BGU to operate under the auspices of the Israeli Council for Higher Education.
The curriculum concentrates on these areas of medicine as they impact on problems of international health and is designed to address emerging issues in healthcare worldwide. Graduates of the MSIH will have the skills to treat individuals and promote health and prevent diseases in populations.
