Program Aims
Program Principles
Accreditation
Program Aims
Program Aims
This program aims at graduating a physician with the following attributes (taken after the Emirates MEDs):
- Medical Expert
- Evidence based practitioner and scholar
- Patient care provider and health advocate
- Communicator
- Collaborator, innovator and leader
- Professional
- System based healthcare advocate
- Self and profession enhancer
- Socially accountable
Program Principles
MD Program Principles
The curriculum is guided by the following principles:
- Balanced – Promotes intellectual, moral, spiritual, aesthetic, creative, emotional, and physical development.
- Horizontally integrated – revolving around a set of presentations that integrate early clinical relevance.
- Coherent – Makes explicit connections and links between the basic science knowledge and clinical practice.
- Vertically Integrated – utilizing competency progression as a framework guiding student learning.
- Relevant – Seeks to connect the valued outcomes of a curriculum to the pupils being taught it; provides opportunities for pupils to make informed choices.
- Student centered – with a modality that allows for students to track their own learning and identify their own learning gaps.
- Spiral – where there are longitudinal threads running throughout the curriculum where outcomes are revisited at monitored intervals.

Accreditation
Accreditation
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The Doctor of Medicine (MD Program), It is a six-year competency-based program with a total of 224 Credit Hours, organized in three inter-related phases – each is two years with two critical points “Gates” at the end of phase I and II. The eligibility of students’ progression to the next phase will be evaluated at the checkpoints. The Doctor of Medicine (MD Program) is accredited by the Commission for Academic Accreditation (CAA), Ministry of Education, Higher Education Affairs, United Arab Emirates.
