The Soroka University Medical Center is the main teaching hospital affiliated with Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and the MSIH. Students conduct their clinical clerkships at Soroka, a large tertiary care center for the entire Negev region which has more than 1,000 beds and more than 4,000 doctors and administrative staff. Soroka provides a broad range of emergency services, ambulatory care, and outpatient clinics, including a mobile dialysis unit that serves remote Bedouin communities.

Soroka has one of the busiest maternity wards in the western world and serves as a regional trauma center for the United States armed forces in the Sinai. Doctors at Soroka perform more than 13,000 deliveries in the maternity wards and over 20,000 operations annually. These range from neurosurgery and organ transplants to skin grafts and open-heart surgery.

Soroka also provides medical care for approximately 300,000 children in the Negev region. By virtue of the diverse populations in the Negev Desert, which includes immigrants from the former Soviet Union and Ethiopia, as well as Israel’s Bedouin population, Soroka University Medical Center provides an extensive range of medical services and health care for patients from very diverse populations.

Soroka’s Pediatric Departments treat conditions that range from cancer and cardiac illnesses to medical conditions endemic to desert populations. The Pediatric Infectious Disease unit is the largest in the Middle East and is recognized worldwide for research on new vaccines, invasive infectious disease, and antibiotic resistant organisms.

In the area of cardiology, Soroka is a leader in cardiac molecular biology and has advanced a revolutionary treatment for myocardial infarction using genetic engineering. Other areas of research focus include skin cell transplants, sub-cranial brain surgery, treatment of microscopic cancers with minimally invasive surgeries, and new treatments for pediatric digestive conditions. Soroka is currently undergoing a massive expansion of facilities, including a children's hospital, breast cancer center, and new emergency room and trauma center.

For additional information on Soroka University Medical Center, visit www.soroka-usa.org/overview

The Medical Library of The Faculty of Health Sciences and Soroka University Medical Center serves MSIH and Medical Center communities, as well as regional health and medical professionals

The library's collection includes books, periodicals, digital media, and offers access to online clinical and current research materials.

The main library houses the open-shelf book collection and public services such as the reference desk, the circulation desk, self-service checkout machine, photocopy facilities, and a group study area. A second section is dedicated to self study, the periodical collection and other special collections such as theses, books of pre-tests and the bioethics collection.

For additional information and access to the Medical Library's online databases, visit http://sorokalib.bgu.ac.il.