Academic Year 2022-23 Opens at the Azrieli Faculty of Medicine

With much excitement and beautiful weather, academic year 2022-23 opened this morning at all Bar-Ilan University campuses and most especially, at the Azrieli Faculty of Medicine in Safed.

Two orientations were held this morning, for incoming MD students as well MSc and PhD students.

Welcoming our future physicians, from the podium in the Esther & Haim Carasso Auditorium, were Prof. Karl Skorecki, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine; Prof. Daniel Glikman, Vice Dean, Pre-Clinical Studies; Dr. Amitai Oberman, Chairperson of the Achievement Committee; Noam David Reshelbach, Administrative Head of Faculty; Sharon Mines, Administrative Deputy to the Associate Dean of Medical Education; Dor Ezon; Chairperson of the Student Union; Prof. Eric Shinwell, Associate Dean, Medical Education; and Dr. Shai Bel, Head of the MD/PhD Program. Immediately after the gathering, without further ado, classes began!

Welcoming the new graduate students were Prof. Meital Gal Tanamy, Chairperson of the Graduate Degree Committee; Noam David Reshelbach, Administrative Head of Faculty; Prof. Karl Skorecki, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine; Hadas Hasidim, Coordinator Graduate Studies; Shlomit Nishri, Head Librarian; and Prof. Michael Blank, Chairperson of the Graduate Teaching Committee.

A few interesting statistics about our students:

• We welcome 101 new students to the four-year MD track and 36 to the three-year MD track.
• This year, 242 students will be enrolled in pre-clinical studies, the largest number so far, requiring new classroom space.
• In total, this year 411 medical students can call Azrieli, home (37% are men; 63% are women)
• To date, 1478 students have studied medicine at Azrieli, and some 700 are now physicians (the first two graduating classes have completed their internships).
• Twenty-eight first year MD students have joined the prestigious Ilanot Medical Leadership Program.
• Eight second year MD students have joined the highly competitive ROM Galil Family Medicine Program (previously known as Tsafon Yarok).

• 130 graduate students are currently carrying out bio-medical research at the Azrieli Faculty.
• The Faculty has welcomed international graduate students from India, Ukraine, Uganda, the Dominican Republic, and this year, from Nigeria.
• To date, 90 students have received Masters Degrees in medical sciences, and 36 have received Doctoral Degrees in medical sciences and health sciences.
• We have 38 research groups at the Faculty and its Affiliate Medical Centers

We wish all students and researchers/advisors a very healthy, productive year of learning and research!

[Thank you to Dr. Ron Orbach, Benny Dayan, and Tova Hasidim for the pictures. Additional pictures can be seen here.]