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BGU international medical students prepare for "exotic" fourth-year internships by testing their skills on local authors.

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Sitting in a circle in a Beersheba classroom, 14 third-year medical students transported themselves mentally to a clinic in Washington Heights, New York City, where they were to play doctor to “Mr. Castro,” a predominantly Spanish speaker experiencing “diffuse abdominal pain,” malaise and vomiting – with four kilograms of weight loss and elevated levels of lead in his blood.

The first student to take the doctor’s chair, Jonathan Drew, was able to find out that the patient was from the Dominican Republic, but he got little information from him beside the fact that he has “no job,” he lives in a fourroom apartment with his daughter’s family and he plays guitar in Hudson River Park.

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