Overview
The Doctor of Medicine (MD Program), It is a six-year competency-based program with a total of 226 credit equivalence, organized in three inter-related phases – each is two years with three critical points “Gates” at the end of each phase. The eligibility of students’ progression to the next phase will be checked 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.
Program Vision
The curriculum with all its components is the core of the college’s daily functions. It translates and transcribes our core values and dedication to excellence. The college being a women’s college sets its priorities on the curriculum structure. The vision of our curriculum sets priorities that feed into building personalities, social and emotional development of women leaders.
The value of educational attainment comes at the core of our curricular vision but assessment for learning is the main objective of any assessment activities in the curriculum.
Our curricular vision seeks to find harmony between the four broad philosophies of what education is for: personal empowerment; cultural transmission; preparation for citizenship; and preparation for work. This comes with focus on cultural acceptance and integration.
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.
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
