Nine medical students were born in UK and studied medicine in Sudan Group of five men and four women left medical school and fled to Syria Lena Abdulqadir said she wanted to volunteer to help wounded Syrians' The surgeons daughter sent smiling selfie to sister before entering Syria Their parents believe they have been brainwashed by ISIS fanatics and have now travelled to the region to convince their children to return home

By Claire Ellicott for the Daily Mail

Published: 18:17 EST, 22 March 2015 | Updated: 06:22 EST, 23 March 2015

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Nine British medical students have travelled secretly to Syria to help treat jihadi fighters in hospitals controlled by Islamic State, it emerged yesterday.

The group of five men and four women, all in their late teens and early 20s, fled medical school in Sudan and travelled to Istanbul before crossing the Turkish border.

One woman, a surgeons daughter, sent a smiling selfie to her sister before entering Syria.

Their desperate parents believe they have been brainwashed by Islamic fanatics and have now travelled to the region in a bid to convince their children to return home.

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Families vow to bring home British medical students who went to treat jihadis in Syria

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UNLV is in the planning stages for a medical school in which the first class would graduate in the year 2021. Above, UNLV nursing school students run through a simulation with a medical mannequin at the Clinical Simulation Center at Shadow Lane campus in Las Vegas. The nursing program is celebrating its 50th year at theuniversity.

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Sunday, March 22, 2015 | 2 a.m.

What does it take to build a medical school?

Lots and lots of planning.

Students wont arrive for another two years, but Barbara Atkinson, planning dean for the UNLV School of Medicine, has been busy crafting the schools curriculum, recruiting and hiring faculty and scouring the state for donors.

Supporters say Las Vegas first allopathic medical school will improve health care in Southern Nevada and be an economic driver.

To make that happen, though, UNLV and Nevada System of Higher Education officials say they need nearly $27 million up front from the state. Gov. Brian Sandoval has signaled he would support that funding, but he doesnt want to shell out the money all at once. He pledged $8.3 million for the medical school over the next two years, with the rest to follow in the next biennium.

UNLV also hopes to lure a large private donor or donors capable of giving $100 million to pay for medical school buildings.

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From the ground up: UNLV medical school taking shape

Charlotte DeLeo, a Pittsfield native and fourth-year student at the University of Massachusetts Medical School smiles during Match Day with her classmate A.J. Piper, also of Pittsfield. Held each third Friday of March, it's the day that medical students across the country get matched with their residency institution, marking the start of their professional experience. (Photo Courtesy of Charlotte DeLeo)

PITTSFIELD In a crowded room at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, Charlotte DeLeo joined her 120 other classmates in clutching sealed white paper envelopes, counting down with their loved ones to noon.

When the moment came, all together the students tore open the letters that would reveal their destinies as to where they'll begin their residencies their careers as medical doctors. For these students the third Friday of March, also known as national Match Day, is one of the biggest days in their lives. Through interviews and rankings both by students and institutions, students across the country are algorithmically assigned their placements.

On July 1, DeLeo will begin her practice at her first-choice placement, UMass Memorial Medical Center.

"Everyone was nervous but excited. You could stay here in Massachusetts, or you could end up in California," DeLeo told The Eagle by phone on Friday afternoon after opening her letter.

"It was so emotional, probably as big as graduation," said Charlotte's mother, Marka DeLeo, who attended the ceremony with Charlotte's paternal grandmother and advocate, Thelma DeLeo, and Charlotte's boyfriend, Scott Walrath.

"For me and the other students here from the Berkshires and other places, it's the culmination of a lot of work, and a revelation of how people have found their little niches within medicine," Charlotte said.

"It was an emotional but very happy event. Most people got their first or second choices, and I think were really satisfied where they ended up," she said.

For the DeLeo family, it was a particularly prideful day. Both Charlotte's older brother, Dr. Michael DeLeo, currently a University of Pennsylvania-based radiologist, and her father, longtime Berkshire oncologist Dr. Michael J. DeLeo of Berkshire Hematology Oncology, are both alumni of UMass Medical School (UMMS) classes of 2009 and 1980, respectively.

Charlotte DeLeo also is related to a host of other physicians on both her paternal and maternal side.

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Eleven medical students and medical school graduates, including an American, are believed to have traveled to Syria to work in hospitals controlled by ISIS, a member of Turkey's parliament said Sunday.

The group seven British, two Sudanese and one Canadian, plus the American traveled through Turkey on March 12, Mehmet Ali Ediboglu, a member of parliament from the Hatay border region, told NBC News.

Ediboglu told Reuters that the students and graduates, who range in age from 19 to 25, have been telling their families over social media that they are fine and staying "at a beautiful house." The families reached out to Turkish officials to help find the young men and women, Ediboglu said.

"God forbid, they might be killed by an attack any minute. That's their concern. And more importantly they want to know what their children are doing in Syria," he told Reuters. "My assumption is that they have gone to Tel Abyad, because I know that the hospital there is extremely busy."

The British Foreign Office said in a statement that it was providing consular assistance to the families and has been in touch with Turkish police.

Ammar Cheikhomar

First published March 22 2015, 2:50 PM

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