HUNGARIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC.

ANNOUNCEMENT

Senior Medical Student Program in the USA

The State University of New York, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at BUFFALO and The State University of New York, Upstate Medical University at SYRACUSE entered into an agreement with the four Medical Universities in Hungary to provide 3 month credit, bearing senior electives to medical students who are in their 6th year of education.

This program is sponsored and managed by the HUNGARIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA (HMAA)

The purpose of the Program is to facilitate the exchange of personnel, experience and knowledge between the involved Medical Universities. With this program the HMAA contributes and provides broad medical knowledge to young Hungarian physicians who are entering the Hungarian Health Care System.

Students may take electives in any field available to the senior year in both American Medical Schools.

Students are expected to provide:

• Round trip air transportation
• Cost of books, materials if required
• Health insurance
• Meal costs (some Buffalo departments provide meal tickets for use in the
  hospital)
• Medical liability (coordinated by HMAA) – Primary contact: Eva Tamoga email: ejtamoga@acsu.buffalo.edu

Student housing is provided by the HMAA in Buffalo, although students are expected to pay $150.00 USD a month each to offset some of the costs.

Who can apply?

Hungarian medical students of the four Hungarian Medical Universities who are in their 5th year of education beginning September 2002.

Requirements (written in 3 copies):

• Completed Application Form
• Letter of recommendation from the Dean
• Letter of recommendation from two different department chairmen
• Copy of index and statement of the medical student status, curriculum vitae, and letter of motivation/intent
• Toefel exam passport size photo

The application must be complete, otherwise it will be automatically rejected
All students must submit an EXIT INTERVIEW to HMAA Chair after the end of rotation Application Form is available at your Medical School from the HMAA representatives/advisors.

Please send all communication to Student and Fellowship Exchange Committee.

Chairman:
Laszlo L. Mechtler, MD
Buffalo NY
lmechtler@dentinstitute.com

Irene L. Krisztinicz, MD
Buffalo, NY
dxbus@yahoo.com