Seventeen Soviet Jewish doctors are attending special classes at the Mount Sinai hospital here in which they are receiving instruction in medical skills and English from a group of volunteer Canadian doctors. They had been unable to practice as doctors here because of their lack of knowledge of North American medical skills and inadequate English. These problems made it unlikely they could pass a special medical examination given to all immigrant physicians in Canada and the United States to test their medical and English abilities before they could be licensed to practice medicine.
The program of lectures and clinics at the hospital was established last October by three Mount Sinai physicians, Dr. Murray Miskin, Dr. Allan Pollard and Dr. Irving Koven. Dr. Miskin had noticed that Soviet Jewish doctors were unable to practice medicine here and were instead doing odd jobs at the hospital.
After discussing the problem at a meeting of some of the hospital’s medical staff members, Dr. Miskin decided he and the other two doctors could provide the necessary training. The Jewish Immigrant Aid Services of Canada arranged financial help with the Canadian government’s Department of Manpower and Immigration to start the program.
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