Under the patronage of Dr. Abd Al-Ilah bin Abbad Al-Tuwairqi, Executive Director General of King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital, a ceremony was held to honor the exemplary medical professors and doctors of the Saudi Fellowship Program in Ophthalmology for the current year (1429 AH 2008 AD). - Dr. Ali bin Abdullah Al-Rajhi, Director of the Research Department at the Hospital and Chairman of the Scientific Council of Ophthalmology at the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties, as well as Dr. Imad Bishara Abboud, Acting Medical Director at the hospital, and Dr. Ahmed bin Abdul Razzaq Al-Saleh, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, King Saud University on behalf of the President, participated in the ceremony. Ophthalmology department in the faculty.
On this occasion, Dr. Al-Tuwairqi said: This program is the first program in medical specialties, which was established in the Kingdom in 1984 CE, i.e. 24 years ago, as it is one of the most prominent and successful postgraduate medical studies programs in the Kingdom to graduate qualified personnel in the field of ophthalmology The first batch of this program graduated in 1988 AD, and their number was (12) doctors who obtained a Saudi fellowship in ophthalmology in a graduation ceremony with the generous sponsorship of His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Governor of Riyadh, after that the batches rolled, praise be to God. Until the number reached (20) batches, from which (190) doctors graduated so far, working in various hospitals in the regions of the Kingdom, which had a great impact on improving medical services provided in the field of ophthalmology medicine and surgery, and the continuation of this program became one of the hospital’s goals.
He added, "We celebrate honoring the ideal ones, and this does not mean that their other colleagues are inferior to them, but rather it is part of the principle of encouragement for them to exert more effort during the years of education and training in the program."
Dr. Talal Fadel, a member of the faculty of the College of Medicine at King Saud University and the head of the program, that doctors have graduated from this distinguished program in batches after completing (4) years, and they hold an associate''s degree in ophthalmology, and they represent a qualified basic pillar in ophthalmology In the kingdom. At the end of the ceremony, awards and certificates of appreciation were distributed to the honorees, namely:
Dr. Iman bint Saeed Al-Qahtani, consultant retina at King Khalid Eye Specialist Hospital, Dr. Hatem bin Abdulrahman Clinton, member of the faculty of the ophthalmology department at the Faculty of Medicine, King Saud University, Dr. Yasser bin Abdulrahman Al-Sadhan, a senior consultant ophthalmologist at the Security Forces Hospital in Riyadh, in addition to the exemplary resident doctors The Saudi Fellowship Program and they are:
Dr. Abdullah bin Muhammad Al-Omari from the fourth phase of the program, Dr. Ammar bin Mahmoud al-Mahmoud from the third phase of the program, Dr. Abdullah bin Abdul Qadir Abu Bakr from the second phase of the program, Dr. Suleiman bin Muhammad al-Sulaiman from the first phase of the program.
