Program Overview
It emphasizes critical thinking, case-based learning, and evidence-based clinical practice to nurture students into competent and caring medical practitioners. The program's unique focus on patient-centered care, holistic medicine, and professional relationships ensures graduates are well-prepared for successful careers in the healthcare field.
Program Outline
Degree Overview:
The MBBS program at Al-Baha University Faculty of Medicine (ABUFM) is an integrated, system-based curriculum designed to improve student learning, comprehension, and integration of medical knowledge. It emphasizes critical thinking, problem-solving, case-based learning, and evidence-based clinical practice. The program aims to prepare students to become competent, caring physicians.
Objectives:
The six-year curriculum is designed to achieve the following goals: To prepare the student for medical reasoning and evidence-based medical practice in the changing health care environment. To prepare the student to achieve the competencies in medical knowledge, Clinical skills, Evidence-based learning, Patient care, Effective communication skills & Professionalism. To develop a professional, analytical, evidence-based and ethical approach in the delivery of health care to the community. Promote self-directed learning, life-long learning and research activity to function effectively in the social health care system. To develop skills and attitude that facilitate development of effective and professional relationships with patients and their families and effective collaborations with other health care professionals.
Outline:
Structure:
The didactic curriculum is organized into blocks which are framed by systems (i.e. gastroenterology, cardiovascular, respiratory, reproductive …etc). The individual blocks contain the same clinical medicine information as the traditional curriculum, such as: basic sciences, clinical skills, and diagnostic studies, study of disease states, pharmacology, and behavioral medicine.
Course Schedule:
Teaching:
Methods:
- Integrated, system-based curriculum
- Emphasis on critical thinking, problem-solving, case-based learning, and evidence-based clinical practice
- Emphasis on the therapeutic relationship and the use of all appropriate therapies, both conventional and alternative.
Other:
- The University Hospital is currently under construction.
- The College of Medicine at Al-Baha University is one of the colleges of Al-Baha University in the university city of Al-Aqiq province in Al-Baha region.
- The college was established in 1429 AH corresponding to 2008, and teaching medical students started at the beginning of the academic year 1430/1431 AH.
- In 1436 AH the female student's section was opened.
- The college worked on applying a modern system, which has not been applied in many medical colleges in the Kingdom, which is the (Integrated system), where the same subject is studied again at a later stage, which provides a great opportunity to fully absorb the subject.
Graduate Attributes:
- Health care practitioner: Graduates integrate all the graduate attribute roles, applying profession-specific knowledge, clinical skills, and professional attitudes to provide optimal, ethical, comprehensive, and patient-centered care in a plurality of health and social contexts.
- Professional: Graduates are committed to ensuring the health and well-being of individuals and communities through ethical practice, profession-led self-regulation, and high personal standards of behavior.
- Communication and Collaboration: Graduates effectively facilitate the career-patient relationship and the dynamic exchanges that occur before, during, and after interventions. Develop rapport, trust, and ethical therapeutic relationships with patients, families, and communities from different cultural backgrounds. Participate effectively and appropriately in multicultural, interprofessional, and trans-professional teams, as well as teams in the community.
- Scholar: Graduates demonstrate a lifelong commitment to reflective learning as well as the creation, dissemination, application, and translation of knowledge.
- Community-Oriented: Graduate should identify the health needs of an individual patient taking into consideration his/her culture. Respond to the health needs of the communities that they serve.
