The Accreditation and Quality Assurance Board of Faculty of Medicine held a meeting with a group of our medical students from all academic years, representing their colleagues, within its periodic meetings with all members of the Faculty of Medicine, including faculty members, administrative staff and students, as well as with representatives of the local community, which represents an organic partnership with the FM/YU. This meeting with the medical students came to introduce them to the faculty’s steps in the field of quality assurance and accreditation and their main and essential role in it, as they are the focus of the academic process, and their graduation as doctors at a high level of competence is the most important goal of our medical school goals. The meeting took place in the Blue Hall on the campus of the Faculty of Medicine on Wednesday morning, June 15th, 2022.

The meeting began with a speech from the Dean of the Faculty, Prof. Khaldoon Bashaireh, who welcomed the students and saluted them for their keenness to upgrade their school to be at the best levels, which will benefit them during their presence there as students and after their graduation as doctors. The Dean offered his congratulations to his daughters and sons who graduated this year after the decision was issued to graduate them by the Deans Council with the degree of MD. As the first batch to graduate with this degree after the accredited degree was MB.BS.

The dean told the students that a specialized center exam will be open on campus to analyze the exams before issuing them and after they are performed in a scientific way. In the other hand, the computerized exam halls inside the campus will all be equipped to allow all medical courses exams held on campus and in the open way system. 

Dr. Bashaireh asked our students to actively contribute by giving their opinions frankly in each questionnaire distributed to them at the end of each course, and he explained to them that his office is open as it has always been for any student who wants to present a problem, suggestion or inquiry to the Deanship.

Then Dr. Nisreen Bataineh, the Dean Assistant for Accreditation and Quality Assurance Affairs, spoke to the students and introduced them to the quality program in the school, stressing on that they are the most important part of this program and that their views are the deanship’s guide to development in various fields of medical education. Dr. Bataineh alerted the students about the necessity of their presence in the curriculum development committees and other various quality assurance committees. Representatives of them have been appointed already in these committees.

After Dr. Nisreen’s speech, the opportunity was given to the students to share their ideas.  They presented their perceptions of improving the level of academic education and their aspirations for what they see in their interest during their university studies and after their graduation. The Dean and his assistant answered the students’ inquiries and question that were very important and focused. Most of them discussed the issues of curriculum development.

The dean clarified that the faculty of Medicine/YU has already started the process of curriculum development by forming many committees for this purpose in the basic stage , the clinical stage and integrated committee for the whole MD. course. Those committtees are responsible for curriculum and instructions modifications as well as reconsidering the basic stage ( body systems components) and the way of evaluation.

The students' suggestions were written down for discussion in the various committees of the school. Continuous and regular communication in different means including face to face meetings will stay as deanship’s policy.

A surgical team led by Dr. Saleh Abo Oroq , the Assistant Professor in Urology, Department of Clinical Medical Sciences ( CMS ) has done a surgical acheivement for Princess Basma Teaching Hospital by doing a Laser lithotripsy for kidney and ureteric stones for the first time in the hospital, using a flexible ureterorenoscopy. The surgical team also consisted of Dr. Ashraf Khasawneh and Dr. Majd Marji. The patient's postoperative status is excellent and was discharged in the next day.

The Anesthetist and ICU consultant Dr. Abdul Rahman Alawneh participated in the operation as well as the urology residents: Dr. Yousef Beshtawi, Dr. Alaa' Bdoor and Dr. Sulaiman Abu-Joudeh. The staff nurses Walaa' AlAbdeh, and Israa' Bani Ismael did the nursing job in the team.

Faculty of Medicine @ Yarmouk University was honored to host more than thirty distinguished consultants and specialists in obstetrics and gynecology from various sectors (Universities, Ministry of Health, Royal Medical services and Private) from Amman and Irbid to participate in the oral exams to evaluate sixth year medical students in the course of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

The participants expressed their admiration for the scientific level achieved by our students and for organizing and coordinating the exam, thanking the efforts of the department’s coordinator, Dr. Suhair Qudsieh, and fellow teachers.

Faculty of Medicine/YU extends its thanks to the dear participants.

On Wednesday, 18 May 2022, the Faculty of Supporting Medical Sciences at Al-Ahliyya Amman University hosted Professor Dr. Mazhar Al-Zoubi, From Yarmouk University School of Medicine where he conducted an interesting scientific lecture to the audience about his research path and the latest results of his scientific studies along with his research team in the field of fertility at the molecular level.

On the sidelines of the lecture, Professor Dr. Mohammed Al-Tannani, Dean of the Faculty of Supporting Medical Sciences and Director of the Center for Pharmaceutical and Diagnostic Research, hosted Professor Dr. Al-Zoubi in his office and exchanged talks on ways to enrich research cooperation. Dr. Al-Tanani accompanied Professor Dr. Al Zoubi on a tour of the Center for Pharmaceutical and Diagnostic Research at Al-Ahliyya Amman University, accompanied by Dr. Hamdi Nusairat, where the latest research devices unique to the Center were demonstrated, where those devices will help increase the opportunities for research cooperation between Al-Ahliyya Amman University and distinguished scientists such as Professor Dr. Mazhar Al Zoubi.

Dr. Zeina Alami, Associate Professor in the Department of Laboratory Medical Sciences, said the lecture is one of a series of lectures aimed at sharing knowledge and expertise where she coordinates a series of scientific and research lectures at the behest of the Dean of the Faculty, on Wednesday of each week, and hosts scientists from within the university, sister universities and international universities, to expand the horizons of scientific research among faculty members and graduate students in the Faculty of Supporting Medical Sciences, as well as to enhance research cooperation between local and international scientific authorities.

It is worth mentioning that Dr. Mazhar Al-Zoubi is a professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at Yarmouk University School of Medicine, he is also an Assistant to the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine for Scientific Research and Alumni and Foreign Relations. He holds a Doctorate in Experimental Molecular Oncology from the University of Pisa, Italy, a U.S. Fellowship in Scientific Research Ethics from the University of North Carolina, a Master of Clinical Biochemistry from the Jordan University of Science and Technology, a Higher Diploma in Medical Laboratories from the University of Jordan, and a Bachelor of Life Sciences from Yarmouk University. He has more than 85 papers published in international well-indexed journals and is an editor of special editions in several international journals and an arbitrator of many research studies in various internationally classified journals and has supervised and discussed several master's and doctoral dissertations in Jordan and Germany. Furthermore, he is an arbitrator for the accreditation of specialties in Arab universities, and project manager in the Erasmus Plus Program. At the end of the lecture, Dr. Mohammed Al-Tannani, Dean of the Faculty of Supporting Medical Sciences, presented Professor Dr. Al-Zoubi with a certificate of appreciation and the shield of Al-Ahliyya Amman University.

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The Tenth International Medical Conference was held at the Professional Associations Complex, Irbid Branch, under the auspices of Prof. Khaled Al-Salem, President of Jordan University of Science and Technology, which is organized by the Medical Association, Irbid Branch, in partnership with the faculties of medicine at Jordan University of Science and Technology and Yarmouk University. The conference was held from 25-27 May 2022.

Prof. Khaldoon Bashaireh, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, was at the forefront of the participants from our medical school,who participated in managing one of the sessions. The following colleagues also participated as speakers in the conference:

Dr. Murad Shatnawi, Who particiapted with his article titled ( Clinical Manifestations of Hypthyroidism, Study from North of Jodran) 

Dr. Hasan Albalas, Who particiaptaed with his article titled ( The Utilization of the Paranasal Sinus Coronal Tomography Scans as a Predictor for the Anterior Ethmoidal Artery Course)

Dr. Wedad Aldolat , Who particiaptaed with her article titled ( Is Wearing a Face Mask Associated with Symptomatic Dry Eye Disease among Medical Students During the COVID 19 era? An online Survey.

A number of Yarmouk University medical students participated in the organization teams of the conference. Dr. Bashaireh , the Dean received a sheild presented to Faculty of Medicine/YU for its effective participation in organizing the conference and making it succesful.

 The Family of Faculty of Medicine/YU congratultes the Dean Prof. Khaldoon Bashaireh for the new appointment as a member of the Board of Trustees in Aqaba University of Medical Sciences, wishing him all the success in serving the medical academic education in Jordan, praying to God to help him assume his new responsibilty.

The Faculty of Medicine participated in the activities of the “German Day- Deutscher Tag” , which was held by the Department of Modern Languages ​​at the Faculty of Arts - Yarmouk University in cooperation with the German Embassy and the German Cultural Exchange Authority DAAD. The cultural day was held on Tuesday May 24^th, 2022. Dr. Adel Al-Shari represented the Faculty of Medicine in this grand activity. Dr. Alshari is an assistant professor in orthopedic surgery and traumatology- Clinical Medical Sciences ( CMS) department.

the cultural events in this day were under the auspices of Prof. Musa Raba’a, Dean of the Faculty of Arts,  in the presence of the head of the Department of Modern Languages, Prof. Hussain Al-Raheel, and German language teachers, Prof. Mahmoud Al-Ali, Dr. Nabil Al-Awawdeh, Dr. Lamia Hammad, Director of the Language Center, and a number of faculty members from the department and the university. On the German side, the events were attended by Mr. Benjamin Schmeling, Director of the German Cultural Exchange Authority, and Mrs. Rahma Al-Tawara. A group of students in the department participated actively in the day events. 

It is worth noting that many of the faculty members at the Faculty of Medicine are graduates of some of the best German universities and practiced medicine in their university hospitals and are fluent in the German language.

Quality assurance board meetings continue, and this time the meeting was with the Clinical Medical Sciences faculty members. It was held in the morning of Sunday , June 5th, 2022

The meeting started with a speech by the Dean , Prof. Khaldoon Bashaireh who clarified the steps that the quality board is following, in order to get the renewal of national and international accreditation. 

Then Dr. Nesreen Bataineh, the Dean assidstant for qaulity assurance issues talked about the standards that national and international accreditation bodies follow and where we reached by the committees established by the deanship to develop our quality assurance in the faculty.  She talked about the PLO's and CLO's that were verified by the deanship lately according to the committees work and faculty counselling. 

Dr. Mohammad Alzoubi the dean assistant for clinical training talked about the Academic Program standard as the most weighted standard in the evaluation of faculties of Medicine by accreditation bodies. He explained the details of this standard in our medical school. 

Prof. Zain Alabideen Abdullah, the vice dean talked about the exams and the evaluation process and statistical analysis used in the faculty to improve the evaluation process in the faculty. 

Prof. Mazhar Alzoubi, the dean assistant for scientific research issues talked about the axis of the scientific research enfarming it within quality standards, putting them all within the reach of researchers students or faculty members, so every researcher can march in the way of research with clear view and confident steps.

Then Dr. Asmaa' Almnayyes the dean assistant for development and medical training issues  talked about the axis of community service, and how important to document all the activities done for this purpose, as the faculty is a mirror of the community. 

It was agreed to expedite the role of the committees in the faculty and the CMS department and to enroll every faculty member in those committees and to get use of their talents , experiences and suggestions.