Fig. 1

Map of Palestinian medical students’ routes to Jerusalem hospitals. Shown are several routes that Palestinian medical students at Al-Quds University in Abu Dis take to commute to one of their main teaching hospitals, Al-Makkased Hospital, located in East Jerusalem. Most medical students at Al-Quds carry West Bank IDs and must take public transit or taxis to and from checkpoints along the Separation Wall that separates their homes in the West Bank from teaching hospitals in Jerusalem. The green route shows how students who live in dormitories at Al-Quds University in the West Bank travel by bus to Zeitouna checkpoint, through which they walk and are searched by Israeli soldiers. They then take another bus or taxi from the checkpoint to Al-Makassed Hospital. The blue route shows how students living in Ramallah, one of the biggest cities in the West Bank, travel by bus to Qalandiya checkpoint, then take another bus or taxi from Qalandiya to the hospital. In contrast, the minority of medical students living in Jerusalem with a Jerusalem ID can more readily reach the hospital and their University with their own cars along well-paved highways (shown by the purple route). Map by Aaron Reiss