TEACHING PROGRAMMES
The Department is actively involved in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching:
UNDERGRADUATE
The Department is committed to the process of delivering to undergraduate students the main concepts and principles of child health that will help them to undertake their internship duties safely and also decide on their future postgraduate studies.
The Department has structured teaching activities for students lead by Education Committee of the Department. The students have different components of assessment during the rotations and at the end of the rotation, organized by the clinical coordinators and monitored by the Department’s Examination Committee.
Members of the Department are also involved in the preclinical courses in the COMHS: The Clinical Communication and Clinical Skills courses.
Currently all the Pre-clerkship, Junior Clerkship and Senior Clerkship programs are running smoothly. Our Pre-Internship programme offers hands-on experience of the practice of paediatrics to medical students and has been running successfully. The Department also participates in Integrated Modules II and III which takes around 50 students every spring and fall semesters.
POSTGRADUATE TEACHING
The morning meetings provide an hour of clinical teaching every day in the form of paediatric scientific clinical meetings, case presentations, mortality and morbidity, grand rounds, histopathology meetings and clinical radiological meetings. In addition to this, there are weekly presentations for interns, and monthly journal clubs.
The Department has around 10-20 pediatric interns per group rotating on quarterly basis, coordinated by Dr. Hilal Al Mandhari. At any time of the year, the Department is having 5–10 OMSB pediatric residents for training. Each year, three members of staff are invited to give presentations to Family Medicine & Public Health residents on common childhood diseases. One member of the taff is invited yearly to deliver a clinical presentation to the Emergency Department residents.
Senior department members contribute to the Post-graduate research programs outside the Department and act as Supervisors and Judges for their research day.
The Department conducts successful yearly examination leading to Membership of the Royal College of Paediatric & Child Health (MRCPCH).
TRAINING COURSES AND CME ACTIVITIES
The Department actively contributes to the following training courses: Neonatal Advance Resuscitation Course (three times a year), Paediatric Advance Life Support (PALS) (five times a year), also with excellent contribution towards other courses offered by SQUH such as Basic Life Support (BLS) and Pain Management and the MRCPCH Preparatory Course (once a year).