Top Russian Doctors Visit MDC to Learn New Techniques for Improved Healthcare

In recent months, Miami Dade College (MDC) has become the destination of choice for health professionals around the globe looking to further their education and enhance their skills. This fall, five Russian physicians and one facilitator visited Miami Dade College as part of an international exchange program aimed at understanding and sharing knowledge between the U.S. and Russia.

The Open World program is a partnership of the Open World Leadership Center at the Library of Congress. The Russian physicians’ Open World program was coordinated by the Academy for Educational Development (AED), a nonprofit organization working globally to improve education, health, civil society and economic development. “The program’s mission is to enhance understanding and capabilities for cooperation between the U.S. and Eurasia by developing a network of leaders in the region who have gained firsthand exposure to the U.S.,” explained Beverly Attallah, vice president and director of the Center for International Exchanges at AED.

(l-r) Drs. Vladimir Venediktov and Aleksey Privalov practice using state-of-the-art medical instruments during their visit to MDC last month.

The physicians, Dina Kuznetsova, Olga Limanova, Aleksey Privalov, Dzhoni Pukhayev and Vladimir Venediktov, arrived in Miami on November 9 and stayed for nine days. While here they met with College leaders at Medical Center Campus to discuss continuing medical education and preventative medicine in a roundtable discussion and took time to meet with students in an open forum. They also visited a public health laboratory and a community health center at a local homeless shelter.

Privalov, professor of oncology and chief surgeon at Chelyabinsk State Medical Academy applied to the program to extend his professional experience and learn about American cancer treatments. “We greatly appreciate being here and have met many kind people. The American health care system is very different from the Russian/European health care system,” he said. The doctors also visited Jackson Memorial Hospital’s AIDS clinic and emergency room facilities.