Primary Health Care Corporation (PHCC) has expanded its collaboration with Qatar University (QU) by designating five of its health centres as official educational training sites for QU students.
This collaboration focuses on strengthening their long-standing strategic partnership for developing a skilled, future-ready, and interprofessional health workforce in Qatar.
Through this collaboration, PHCC health centres serve as key clinical training hubs for QU students across a wide range of health professions, including medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, nursing, biomedical science, nutrition, physiotherapy, speech and language pathology, and public health.
This initiative reflects PHCC’s commitment to fostering a culture of mentorship, knowledge exchange, and continuous learning within the primary healthcare system.
It directly supports the Qatar National Vision 2030 by advancing academic medicine, enhancing the quality of primary care services and building national capacity within the health sector.
At PHCC health centres, students train within interprofessional environments, applying theoretical knowledge to real clinical practice through structured, system-based modules. From cardiovascular and endocrine care to neuroscience, mental health, and family & community medicine, students gain meaningful hands-on experience that prepares them to become confident and competent health professionals.
The clinical placements are designed around clear educational outcomes, ensuring that students gain hands-on experience that enables them to observe and participate in patient care in real-world primary care settings; practise history taking and physical examination skills; collaborate effectively within interprofessional health teams; utilise digital health tools and interpret clinical data and apply evidence based clinical judgments while navigating ethical considerations in patient care.
Beyond clinical learning, QU health profession students play an active role in community engagement initiatives hosted at PHCC. These include preventive health campaigns such as Oral Health Month, student-led clinics, research collaborations, health literacy programmes, and structured clinical skills assessments, expanding their contributions from classroom learners to active participants in community health promotion.
PHCC faculty and clinicians serve as dedicated mentors, supported by teaching frameworks, competency-based evaluation tools, and structured feedback systems that ensure high-quality clinical education across all training sites.
“Our partnership with Qatar University reflects our deep commitment to nurturing the next generation of healthcare professionals,” said Dr Samya Abdulla, assistant managing director, Operations & Clinical Affairs at PHCC.
“By integrating academic excellence with real-world clinical practice, we are strengthening primary healthcare services and investing in a healthier future for our community.”
“This partnership stands as a model of how academic and clinical collaboration can transform health profession education,” said Prof Asmaa al-Thani, vice president, Health and Medical Sciences, QU.
“By embedding our students in PHCC’s interprofessional primary care environment, we are equipping them with the skills, values, and interprofessional mindset needed to deliver person-centred care and drive Qatar’s health system towards the goals of Qatar National Vision 2030.”