Dr. Asma'a Al-Mnayyis the radiologist and the consultant in musculoskeletal radiology was promoted to the academic rank of Associate Professor after approval of the Deans' Council in Yarmouk University.

Dr. Al-Mnayyis is the Dean Assistant for academic development and clinical training issues in Faculty of Medicine.  The family of the Faculty of Medicine/ YU congratulates Dr. Asma'a for this promotion and hopes the best for her career.

Faculty of Medicine YU participated in the medical day for the awareness of uterine cervix cancer that was held by Faculty of pharmacy and Queens University/ UK. This event was held under the patronage of the Dean of Faculty of Pharmacy-YU 'Dr. Mervat Alsous' on Sunday Dec. 5th, 2021.

Dr. Suhair Qudsieh representing faculty of medicine presented a lecture about uterine cervix cancer and the ways of screening it. Dr. Qudsieh is an assistant professor in Obstetrics and Gynecology- Clinical Medical Sciences Department (CMS). Dr. Ahlam Ali of Queens University presented a lecture about the HPV vaccine used for prophylaxis against uterine cervix cancer.

The event was basically organized and attended by students from both faculties; Pharmacy and Medicine.

On Saturday Nov. 27th, 2021 an article was published in Al-Rai jordanian newspaper written by the dean of Faculty of Medicine/YU. The title was 'A national program for medical residencies'.

The Dean suggested the esatblishment of a unified comprehensive national program to accept the jordanian graduated doctors who are exceeding the number of residencies' posts available in the current residency programs in different health sects in the country. 

This national program could accommodate more numbers of residents in all specialties because it will operate all the facilities available for the current programs and the qualified doctors that could train the residents. The residents even can do their rotations in many different hospitals where they can be exposed to more diverse cases in the kingdom hospitals. 

The article in Arabic language is available below. 

On Thursday Dec. 16th, 2021, Prof. Islam Massad, the president of Yarmouk University met the teaching staff of Clinical Medical Sciences-CMS department in the presence of Prof. Khaldoon Bashireh, the Dean, Prof. Zain Al-Abideen Abdulla, the vice dean and Dr. Hasan Albalas , the head of CMS department.

First, the president talked to the teaching staff about the development of the curriculum and the alterations needed to cope with the modern medical education especially with the increasing numbers of medical students enrolling the faculties of medicine in Jordan. and he stressed on the importance of  excellence in this issue in our school of medicine. Then Prof. Massad touched on the topic of clinical education and training and the clinical practice of the clinical teaching staff in the teaching hospitals and training centers. 

Prof. Bashaireh the dean then lighted some points concering the future of clinical training in the faculty of medicine. An open and frank discussion took place between the teaching staff and the administration where questions and inquiries were answered by the YU President.

The Faculty of Pharmacy/YU, in cooperation with the Faculty of Medicine /YU and with Queen's University in Britain, held a medical day to raise the awareness of cervical cancer. The event was under the auspices of the Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy, Dr. Mervat Al-Sous. The activities of that medical day were held on Sunday, December 5, 2021. Dr. Suhair Qudsieh, the assistant professor in CMS dept. -FM/YU gave a lecture on cervical cancer and methods of early detection, followed by a lecture by Dr. Ahlam Ali from Queen's University in Britain about the HPV virus vaccine to prevent cervical cancer.The day was organized and attended by students from the Faculties of Pharmacy and Medicine.

Presenting Faculty of Medicine, and as a particpation of the faculty in the awarenwess of health issues, Dr. Asmaa' Almnayyes, the Dean Assistant and the assistant professor gave a lecture about breast cancer in the YU model school. The lecture was held on Wednsday Nov. 24th, 2021 at 10 am. 

The lecturer talked about the disease, its symptoms and signs, the factors associated with getting this disease, the importance of the early diagnosis and the ways of screening.

Ms. Ghadeer Samardaly, the teacher in the school organized the event which was attended by students and teachers of the school.

The Dean of FM/YU, to his right Ms. Maisa Nader , the secretary of Orthopedic Surgery Council, then Professors of Orthopedics Dr. Khalid Faraj/ Libya and Dr. Issam Almaghrebi/Syria

Prof. Khaldoon Bashaireh, the Dean of Faculty of Medicine/YU participated in the Arab board exam of orthopedic surgery affiliated with the Arab council of health specialties. The December 2021 exam session was held in the campus of the educational center of Ain Shams University . Cairo-Egypt.

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Prof. Bashaireh with Professors of Orthopedics Dr. Issam Almaghrebi/ Syria and Dr. Osama Shazeli /Egypt

Prof. Khalddon Bashaireh with Prof. Hani Basiouni the Dean of Faculty of Medicine/ Qena University-Egypt

 'Wateen' team for medical debates held a debate entitled " I support disconnection of resuscitation equipment in cases of brain death". The debate was held in the main auditorium in the faculty of medicine campus on Tuesday Nov. 30th, 2021.

The judge jury consisted of Dr. Ayman Alzoubi , Dr. Rema Karasneh and Dr. Ola Soudah, all from the basic medical sciences (BMS) department.

The pro-disconnection of resuscitation equipments team consisted of the medical students;Hedayah Alrashdan, Shorouq Obeidat and Anas Alshunnaq. while the opposition team consisted of the medical students ; Zainab Akram, Lojain Abu-rshaid and Sohaib Alqudah.

The debate ceremony started with a talk presented by Prof. Zain Alabideen Abdullah , the Vice-Dean who welcomed the students and encouraged them to participate in the extra-curricular activities side by side with the academic and medical training activities. He stressed on the importance of such activities in personality refinement of medical students.

The debate heated up when each student of both teams gave her/his arguments a justifications of taking either side of the debate, they responded to eachothers' arguments and replied to the audience questions. Finally the judge jury declared the pro-team as a winner of this debate. The students from both teams were honored. Further debates are being processed and prepared by ( wateen) medical debates team.

The first edition of the Female Jordanian Doctor conference, which is organized by Jordan Medical Association started in Intercontinental hotel- Amman On Wednsday Nov. 24th, 2021 under the patronage of His Highness Prince Hassan Bin Talal. The conference activites will end on Nov. 26th, 2021 

Dr. Suhair Qudsieh; the Assistant Professor in the Clinical Medical Sciences Department - CMS ( Obstetrics and Gynecology) represented Faculty of Medicine and its female doctors in the conference. She presented a new sytudy about the effect of lockdown during Corona pandemic on the health of pregnant women in Jordan.

The presentation was within the (obstetrics and Gynecology) session in the second day of the conference Today-Thursday Nov. 25th, 2021.