Sidra Medicine, a member of Qatar Foundation, honoured the achievements of the 2024-2025 graduating class of residents, fellows, medical doctors, and scholars.
The event is part of its third annual Medical Education Day.
The event was attended by several dignitaries, including HE the Minister of Public Health Mansoor bin Ebrahim al-Mahmoud; and Managing Director of Hamad Medical Corp Mohammed bin Khalifa bin Mohammed al-Suwaidi.
The Class of 2025 featured 68 individuals across Sidra Medicine’s academic programmes including 19 residents from Paediatrics; 36 fellows from both Women’s and Paediatrics; five undergraduate students from Medicine, Nursing and Biological Sciences, and eight sponsored staff from Genomics, Research, Medical Imaging and Neuroscience.
Chief Executive Officer at Sidra Medicine Dr Iyabo Tinubu-Karch said: “The recognition of our graduates reflects Sidra Medicine’s ongoing commitment to building a healthcare workforce prepared to meet the region’s most pressing challenges through excellence in education, collaboration and clinical innovation.”
Chief Medical Officer of Sidra Medicine Prof Ibrahim Janahi said: “As graduates of Sidra Medicine, our Class of 2025 are now in a position to help lead critical change in healthcare across our region. Many of the conditions affecting children in the Mena region are still not well understood, as our populations are often left out of global healthcare research and clinical trials. This must change. I look to the current and future generation of graduates to play a big role in bringing a much-needed perspective to the health and research sector.”
To date, more than 173 students, including residents and fellows have graduated from Sidra Medicine’s medical education programmes, an important milestone in its ongoing contribution to healthcare capacity building in Qatar and the region.
Key paediatric graduate programmes included emergency medicine, medical genetics, pulmonology, neurology and epilepsy, hospital medicine, haematology and oncology. Research specialties included genomics and precision medicine, biological and biomedical sciences.
The graduation event also featured an Appreciation and Award Ceremony, recognising the outstanding contributions and achievements across a range of categories, celebrating faculty, trainees and teams who exemplify excellence in education and clinical practice.
