Gdansk Medical School to establish joint venture campus in Israel next year

year Gdansk Medical School (AMG) chancellor Wieslaw Makarewicz said that his institution could begin training doctors in Israel as early as next year. Talks on the project to set up an AMG division in Israel, the first such venture by a Polish post secondary institution, were at an advanced stage. The project is the idea of a group of Israeli entrepreneurs, who realizing the limited number of places at local medical schools coupled with the near-impossible task of setting up a new institution, approached the Polish side for cooperation. According to Makarewicz, the venture would purely be a business one in which the Israeli side would be responsible for investments while the Polish side would concentrate on the curriculum and credentials. (Rzeczpospolita, Sept. 23-24, page A3)