The applicants who are selected by Touro College are then scheduled for an interview in New York with the joint Admissions Committee. The candidates are notified of the joint committee's decision within one week following the final interview. This is a full-time course of study that usually takes one year to complete. Beginning in September, the student takes the following 35 credits of coursework. In addition to these courses, all students in the School of Health Sciences must pass the course in Community Service.
Many students also take courses in Hebrew.
To complete the requirements for the MS degree, the student must also complete a special project which usually consists of a literature review thesis or a research project with a thesis. Upon successful completion of the coursework and the special project, the student is awarded the degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies in Biological and Physical Sciences. The B. Rappoport Family-Medical Sciences Building in Bat Galim, Haifa, is the home of the Faculty of Medicine of the Technion. It contains the basic science research laboratories, the preclinical teaching departments, teaching laboratories, the central medical library, seminar rooms, and lecture halls. Afula, and Safed.