(MENAFN- Gulf Times) Hamad Medical Corporation's (HMC) Medical Education Department recently welcomed 100 students attending Qatar University's College of Medicine to orientation sessions for enabling them to find out more about the country's largest healthcare provider.
The sessions, held over two days, provided the medical students with an opportunity to visit some of HMC's clinical sites, and more broadly, helped to stimulate their interest in potential specialities as they begin their medical school journey.
The programme included a visit to HMC's Medical Education Center that followed talks by Dr Abdullatif al-Khal, HMC's deputy chief medical officer and associate dean for clinical affairs at Qatar University, Dr Yousef Maslamani, medical director of Hamad General Hospital, and Maitha al-Bouainain, executive director of Community Affairs and Patient Engagement at Hamad General Hospital.
The students learned about HMC as an organisation, and specifically its role as the main provider of secondary and tertiary healthcare in Qatar. They were given an overview of HMC's 12 hospitals and national ambulance service, and were provided with information on the organisation's many academic accreditations and programmes, including the Qatar Organ Donation initiative.
The formal sessions were followed by a visit to eight clinical areas in Hamad General Hospital, with small groups of five or six students rotating across each area. Students were introduced to HMC clinicians and staff working in the various departments.
'We have a close working relationship with the College of Medicine at Qatar University and are pleased to have the opportunity to welcome Qatar's future doctors to HMC. The opportunity to take part in these orientation sessions enables the students to meet clinicians at their future clinical training site, ask any questions they may have, and learn more about what a career as a doctor entails, said Dr al-Khal.
'As the population of Qatar continues to grow, it is important to increase our cohort of highly qualified clinicians who have studied and trained within our healthcare system. These future physicians will take care of Qatar's population which is why it is so important that we (as HMC) work closely with the College of Medicine at Qatar University to support and train their medical students, noted Dr al-Maslamani.
Prof Egon Toft, vice president for Medicine and Health and Dean of the College of Medicine, QU said, 'HMC's Medical Education Department and Qatar University's College of Medicine have worked together very effectively to provide students about to embark upon a career in medicine with the opportunity to attend orientation sessions at HMC. The feedback from these sessions has been extremely positive.
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