Consultative meeting in Sana'a on Clinical Education and Training for medical disciplines

Consultative meeting in Sana'a on Clinical Education and Training for medical disciplines

Consultative meeting was held –today- in Sana'a on Clinical Education and Training for medical disciplines in public and private universities - challenges and solutions, organized by the Council for Academic Accreditation and Quality Assurance.

With the participation of several heads of public and private universities, deans of medical colleges and their deputies for quality affairs, members of the Academic Accreditation Council, and representatives of the Higher Medical Council, discussed the current status of clinical training and proposed solutions and recommendations to upgrade and ensure the quality of outputs.

Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Hussein Hazib, considered the meeting as an important step to improve clinical training for medical college students.

He stressed the importance of overcoming the challenges facing clinical training because the absence and weakness of clinical training poses a threat to the country's health situation. He referred that the Ministry took a decision three years ago to suspend admission to universities and medical colleges that lack hospital for practice.

Minister Hazib highlighted the importance of coming up with a guide at the end of the consultative meeting, to organize clinical education and solve hospital problems, stating that the Ministry has taken a decision to form a competent academic and medical team to visit universities and ensure the readiness of medical colleges that have applied for programmatic accreditation and the steps they have taken.

Deputy Minister of Higher Education, Dr. Ali Sharaf Al-Deen, and the Undersecretary of the Ministry for the Educational Establishments Sector, Dr. Ghaleb Al -Qanis, called on the universities that have opened medical colleges to meet all requirements and institutional conditions, meeting the minimum medical academic standards, otherwise actions will be taken against the violating university.

The Ministry had taken a decision to approve the admission capacity of medical colleges, pursuant to the evaluation form the furnished by the Academic Accreditation Council, and on each college's capacity.

On the other hand, the President of the Academic Accreditation Council, Dr. Ahmed Al-Haboub, and the Secretary-General of the Council, Dr. Mohammed Dhaif Allah, emphasized the need to ensure that students are mastering the basics of clinical examination and evaluation, provision of care to patients, not to mention acquiring basic skills essential for safe and effective practice in the future.

 In addition, clinical training requirements of each university's teaching or university hospital was reviewed in the consultative meeting, where capacity should accommodate not less than 200 beds in the main disciplines: Internal and its branches, Pediatric diseases, women and childbirth, general surgery, and its branches. Further, it was agreed that the clinical training team should be composed of a qualified cadre whose qualifications not less than assistant professor with at least three years' teaching experience. In addition to the presence of the radiology department, the emergency department, and all necessary equipment.

Dr. Abdul Rahman Al -Haifi, reviewed Dhamar University's experience in Clinical Education and Training, and the Secretary-General of the Supreme Medical Council, Dr. Abdul-Rahman Al Hammadi, reviewed the mechanism of cooperation and partnership between the academic and medical councils to develop academic standards and a guide for clinical training for hospital medical college students to improve the quality of outputs and health services in society.

At the consultative meeting moderated by the national expert Dr. Numan Firouz, in presence of the undersecretaries of the Ministry, participants were divided into three groups. The first group (University Hospital) discussed challenges and solutions. The second group (Faculty members) discussed challenges and solutions, and the third group (Clinical education and training) challenges and solutions.