Medicine Program

Our Mission

is to provide a distinguished medical education, innovative research and community services, within a framework of ethics and values of profession.

Goals

The competent, effective, and compassionate care of patients and the advancement of knowledge about the disease and its prevention and treatment require that, medical students in training be introduced to a lifelong educational process in the practice of medicine. Medicine Program provides a critical phase of this education. The goals of the Medicine Program include educating students who should achieve the highest ethical and performance standards required to provide exemplary patient care, and who will assume leadership roles in the areas of clinical medicine, research, and teaching.

Program Description

Qualifications offered by the Program in Medicine is a Bachelor degree of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS). The length of the program is 7 years (which includes a preparatory year). All students are eligible to practice medicine in the country after passing the Saudi Licensing Examination (SLE).

After being eligible from admission to the Medicine program, it is comprised of five years for under graduate teaching and one internship year for the clinical training. Students cannot graduate until he/she passed successfully the fifth year and thereafter the internship year evaluation.

The Medicine Program follows traditional teaching. Throughout the first two years, students study the basic sciences such as Anatomy, Histology, Physiology and Biochemistry. The third year is considered as the preclinical year where the students study more relevant subjects to the clinical career such as Pathology, Pharmacology and Microbiology with some other specialties. The fourth and fifth years are the clinical years where the students study Surgery, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics and Obstetrics and Gynecology. The clinical training for these subjects is conducted through the hospitals of the ministry of Health in Jeddah namely King Fahd Hospital, King Abdul Aziz Hospital, Al Azizzia Hospital and Al Mosadiah Hospital. The students throughout the internship year will have their clinical training at these hospitals as well.

Theoretical teaching is mainly through lectures; with interactive participation of students throughout the lectures by frequently providing case studies and case scenarios. The main teaching methods in the practical and clinical sessions relies on problem solving by providing incidental cases and encouraging brain storming and critical thinking.

Program Structure

Medicine Program consists of:

• Department of Anatomy
• Department of Biochemistry
• Department of Physiology
• Department of Pathology
• Department of Microbiology
• Department of Pharmacology
• Department of Surgery
• Department of Internal Medicine
• Department of Pediatrics
• Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology
• Department of Community Medicine
• Skills Lab Unit
• Medical Education Unit

Head Of Program Message

Medicine is the science of humanity and is a supreme message to the community; while education is the corner stone of development and progress. When education and medicine meet, we should have a great value where ethics are coming into reality. I am honored to be the Head of the Medicine Program in Batterjee Medical College, where all the staff members are working consistently with great perseverance in laying down the basics of our future doctors. We are determined to continue to lead the way in medical education. Our aim is to provide physicians of the future with a world class education, based on current knowledge, informed by research and with an awareness of societal needs. We hope to deliver world-leading research and inspirational teaching for tomorrow's scientists. All of these elements together offer a scale and range of work that will foster our strong tradition of innovation.

I take great pride in having the opportunity to lead it!

Dr. Mohammad Ashraf Ali Balbaa, Head of Medicine Program

Career Path / Advice

All students are eligible to practice Medicine in the country after passing the Saudi Licensing Examination (SLE).

1. They can practice as General Practitioners in the hospitals, clinics and out patient department.
2. They can work in an Emergency Department and ICU.
3. They can do Residency and Post graduation work in all the specialties of Medicine.
4. They can work as Teaching Faculty / Academics.
5. They can be Researchers.

Doctor of Medicine Curriculum

First Year: Preparatory YearSecond Year

Third Year

Fourth Year

Fifth Year

Sixth Year

seventh Year:Internship Rotation

Entry Requirements