The OMI - Salzburg Medical Seminars International (the Salzburg-Weill Cornell Seminars for Adult Medicine, the Salzburg-CHOP Seminars for Pediatrics, the Salzburg-Duke Seminars for Public Health and the Salzburg-Columbia Seminars for Neonatology) link physicians from leading American hospitals and their affiliated medical schools with physicians practicing in Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the former Soviet Union. Under the auspices of The American Austrian Foundation, the seminars are funded by a direct grant from The Open Society Institute, which is matched by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Culture . From 1993 - 2004 the seminars took place at Schloss Leopoldskron, home of the Salzburg Seminars, an American foundation established in 1946 after World War II. Since June 2005 the seminars take place at our newly renovated facility, Schloss Arenberg.
Through January 2006, 689 faculty members from the United States and Austria trained over 6.633 physicians from more than 42 countries and regions of Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the former Soviet Union. Through the advances in telecommunications we have been able to expand the reach of this program by transferring the contents of the seminars to CD-ROMs and the Internet (Medical Handbook Online), making this available for fellows and physicians worldwide.
We also promote in country activities through Open Medical Clubs (Alumni Network), Medical Internships and Satellite Symposia. Theses activities increase the efficacy of the Salzburg Medical Seminars International Program.
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