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Dr. Majed Al-Fayyad, the executive general supervisor of the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, stressed the importance of producing more research with a specific impact, as far as what has been accomplished, returning to it an essential pillar in medical work.
This came during the inauguration of the seventeenth surgical research day, which is organized by the hospital''s surgical department annually. Dr. Al-Fayadh said: "I am waiting for the surgical department, the rest of the departments, and the research center to see more research of qualitative addition because it is the backbone of medical development."
For his part, Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Jarman, a consultant and head of the plastic surgery department at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center in Riyadh, and the head of the Organizing Committee for the event, explained that the Day of Surgery Research discussed (57) research presented by resident surgeons, hospital fellows and a number of other hospitals from the regions of the Kingdom, to Beside the students of the Faculty of Medicine at Al-Faisal University, their topics focused on the novelties of surgery with different specializations.
Dr. Jarman said during the past six years, 157 scientific researches were published in prestigious scientific journals and during the last 9 months of the year 2017 AD 51 scientific researches were approved, 16 conferences and local and international medical workshops were presented, and a new training program for pediatric surgery was opened to join training programs The current list is plastic surgery, restoration, and general surgery programs, indicating that these training programs include 51 doctors under the umbrella of the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties.
The Germans added, that the hospital has 4 fellowship programs in breast and gland surgeries, intestinal and rectal surgeries, pediatric surgeries and chest cage surgeries that currently include 16 fellowship doctors.
The research day witnessed the participation of Dr. Noha Jestania, a consultant oncologist at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center in Riyadh, who gave a lecture on a woman’s journey in seeking knowledge and her suffering between her role in society as a mother and wife and achieving what she aspires in the scientific field.
The best resident doctor in the field of plastic surgery was awarded to Dr. Ahmed Al-Otaibi, and in the specialty of general surgery Dr. Ziyad Al-Yahya, and the best trained physician in breast and glands surgery Dr. Amal Al-Hafithi.
