Reza Nassiri, director of the Institute for International Health and assistant dean in the College of Osteopathic Medicine. Photo by Ann Cook. 

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EAST LANSING, Mich. — Eleven College of Osteopathic Medicine students and two from the College of Human Medicine traveled recently to Mansoura, Egypt, for clinical rotations and didactic seminars at Mansoura University Specialty Hospital.

The program was organized by the Institute of International Health and led by Reza Nassiri.

"We organized this trip as a three-credit  course for second-year students from both MSUCOM and the College of Human Medicine (CHM),” said Nassiri, assistant dean at the College of Osteopathic Medicine and director of the Institute of International Health. “During the mornings, students took advantage of clinical shadowing opportunities at Mansoura University Specialty Hospital and attended afternoon lectures that not only deepened their knowledge of many of the tropical diseases they were seeing in the hospital, but also focused on important topics covered in their national board exams.”

For more on this story, go to http://www.com.msu.edu/pub-rel/student-events/EgyptTrip_sept2009.html.

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