Qatar University (QU) recently appointed 20 physicians and healthcare experts from leading healthcare organisations in Qatar as clinical faculty and clerkship directors at its College of Medicine (CMED).
The appointees, five of whom are Qatari, will join the college from organisations in Qatar such as Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), Primary Health Care Corporation (PHCC), Ministry of Public Health and Sidra Medical and Research Center (Sidra), as well as Charles Clinic and Institute of Dermatology at University College Dublin, Ireland.
In their respective roles as full professor, associate professor, assistant professor and lecturer, the new recruits will bring their expertise in internal medicine, surgery, family medicine, paediatrics, dermatology, obstetrics and gynaecology, psychiatry, public health and radiology as well as contribute in the future to the planned PhD programme.
Clinical faculty are academic appointments made to practising health professionals with a track record of outstanding teaching, innovative programme development and patient-oriented research.
Among these appointees are clerkship directors, key to the quality of education for students, particularly during the clerkship phase. They are instrumental in providing a clinical perspective to the pre-clinical years. The clerkship directors also play a key role in setting the policies and standards for clinical experience.
QU vice-president for Medical Education and CMED dean Prof Egon Toft said: “Faculty in clinical instruction and clerkship roles are crucial to the college’s vision to be a driving force for innovation across the national healthcare sector and as strong role models and inspirational mentors for Qatar’s future doctors.”
The clinical faculty to date have been appointed under several categories: interim clerkship directors, associate interim clerkship directors, special interim clerkship directors and clinical appointments.
Interim clerkship directors include professor Abdel Nasser Elzouki in the internal medicine programme, Dr Nora al-Mutawa in family medicine, Dr Khalid Bashir in emergency, Dr Madeeha Kamal in paediatrics, Dr Sherif Abdel Azzim in surgery, Dr Nael Kilzieh in psychiatry and Dr Salwa Abuyaqoub in obstetrics and gynaecology.
