Kingdom needs to be
To reconsider the Taif - Nawaf bin Khashoum, member of the Saudi Society for Medical Education, Dr. Adnan Amin Al-Sulaimani, assured to "Riyadh" that the path of medical education in the Kingdom needs to be reconsidered, and that there are many corrective and improvement steps necessary to raise the medical outputs in order to rise and raise the quantity and quality Service and healthcare provided to patients.
He noted that we must work on making clear, systematic policies and plans between private and public medical colleges and under the umbrella and advice of higher education in order to raise the quality of medical education on firm and unbiased foundations, the goal of which is the advancement of the educational process, and then unified medical outputs in order to ensure a minimum Agreed upon for an efficient practicing physician.
Sulaymani called for coordination with the Health Specialties Authority, as it is the most influential change in the health path in the Kingdom, and God willing, it will have a major role in the qualitative improvement in the health field, including medical education. I hope that the Saudi Society for Medical Education will have a supportive and constructive role for the Commission’s efforts in this field.
Sulaymani stated that the aim of the association is to develop scientific thought in the field of medical education in particular and education in health fields in general and to work to develop and revitalize it, especially in the following medical fields: admission policies in medical and health colleges, conditions and methods, and the development of curricula, study plans, and education strategies such as education in a manner. Solving problems, the process of horizontal and vertical integration in courses, community-oriented education, uses of native medicine and developing methods of measurement and evaluation for the student, the professor, and the curriculum.
He pointed out that teaching methods and the use of educational technologies and their development are to achieve scientific communication for members of the association and to revive the concept of an integrated health team.
It is worth noting that there are more than twenty medical colleges in the Kingdom that enjoy unlimited support from officials and governors, and hundreds of qualified doctors graduate annually to join the labor market in which Saudization has not exceeded only twenty percent of the total health cadre in the Kingdom, and our medical education has progressed in ten years. The past is distinguished and well-known steps, supported by various health statistics and achievements.
