(MENAFN- The Peninsula) Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) celebrated its achievements in the field of medical education and has formally recognised its latest cohort of graduating residents and fellows at the Excellence in Medical Education Ceremony held at Qatar National Convention Center (QNCC) this week.
HMC leadership recognised and awarded its consultants and specialists who played a leadership role as course directors, instructors and teachers in its Faculty and Residents Development Program. Under this programme, the physician and scientist course directors of the following courses were recognized: Communication Skills, Professionalism, Research Methods, Stress Management, Chief Residents Development, and Simulation programmes.
A total of 304 graduating doctors, comprising 212 residents who successfully completed their residency training programmes at HMC, 70 Fellows who successfully completed their subspecialty training programmes and 22 Qatari physicians and dentists who successfully completed their postgraduate training abroad through the international scholarship programmes, were honoured at the event.
The residents had received four to seven years, and the fellows two to 13 years, of rigorous training under HMC's 18 different residency training programmes and more than 50 fellowship programmes. The residency training programmes prepare doctors to work as specialists in fields such as anesthesia, ophthalmology, orthopaedics, ENT (Ear, Nose, and Throat), cardiothoracic surgery, emergency medicine, psychiatry, or to enroll as fellows into different subspecialties.
Professor Michael Richmond, Chief Medical Officer at HMC, said, "We are thrilled to graduate another group of highly-skilled residents and fellows who have undergone rigorous training and have demonstrated the skill and commitment to care for patients. These young doctors will become the clinical leaders of the future and we trust that they have learned not merely to be doctors but have developed the passion to be good doctors with a focus on quality improvement in healthcare."
In addition to gaining strong clinical knowledge through the residency programmes, graduates also benefitted from several other complementary training programmes in areas such as communication, professionalism, research, stress management, and evidence-based practice.
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