Ramallah – Together – A group of second-year students majoring in human medicine at the Arab American University in Ramallah completed practical training that lasted for two weeks at the Hclinic Specialized Hospital.
The training was part of the cardiovascular system course, where the students underwent their first clinical training experience, which included skills in checking blood pressure and heartbeats, identifying heart disorders, basic skills in reading electrocardiograms (ECG), and heart conditions such as chest pain, difficulty breathing, and others. The training also included introducing the students to the hospital departments, their working mechanism, and the administrative procedures followed in the medical system.
During his review of the progress of the training, the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the Arab American University, Dr. Malek Zabin stressed the importance of providing medical students with high-quality practical skills and said: ‘We seek to develop the College of Human Medicine
and support its students even before the clinical training stage. The quality of training will contribute to enriching the clinical stage and improving the reality of services and health care provided to citizens in the future.’
He pointed out that the goal of training second-year students is early exposure to the gradual clinical application extending over all years of study to link the basic information studied in lectures with the clinical aspect.
In turn, Dr. said: Jihad Mishal, Medical Director of Hclinic Hospital, said that the hospital’s management and doctors believe in the importance of giving the best training opportunities and special attention to future doctors. Improving the capabilities and knowledge of medical students is the true indicator of the advancement of the health sector and the quality of services.
The training comes within the framework of a cooperation agreement between the Arab American University and the Hclinic Hospital to train students of the Faculty of Human Medicine enroll
ed at the university on its Ramallah and Jenin campuses.
The terms of the agreement revolve around providing a high level of training to human medicine students in the clinical stage and before, at the hands of the most skilled specialist doctors at Hclinic Hospital in the departments of internal medicine, general surgery, children, women, obstetrics, and specialized departments of orthopedics, neurology, cardiology, emergency, anesthesia, and diagnostic radiology.
Source: Maan News Agency