Ro'ya TV station inerviewd the dean of Faculty of Medicine @ YU Prof. Khaldoon Bashaireh who answered the host's questions about the vaccination against COVID19 campaign in Jordan. He talked about the international collaboration during the pandemic and about the reaction of Jordan to this crisis starting for equipping hospital of all what nneded to cope with the increasing cases, and the prevention lockdowns and finally the supply of vaccines aiming to control the infection as soon as the vaccines were recognozed scientifically and approved by WHO. 

He then talked about increasing awareness in the society of taking the vaccines after a period of misunderstanding of  the truth about vaccines, stating that the cooperation between the government, the active bodies of the people, the media and the health institutions in increasing this awareness till we reached this stage we live of people's initiative to take the vaccines.

About Jordan's situation comapred to the world regarding vaccination against COVID19, the Dean said that according to the numbers of MOH - Jordan: till yesterday, 5 million 800 thousand vaccines were given already which means about 25% of all who live in Jordan took two doses of the vaccine, a percentage close to the world's numbers that reach about 30%. This means that Jordan is in the right way.

When he was asked about the safety of the vaccines, Prof. Bashaireh talked about the differences in human bodies in response to medications and vaccines in general, and the differences about the preparations among the different vaccines, those factors play role in the side effects that we see sometimes from vaccine to vaccine. The fact that the world has vaccinated people more than 4.5 billion times with no major problem happened from any vaccine let us with confidence label them as safe. With the side effects as minimum as expected and easily treatable then  vaccines against COVID19 are safe as the other vaccines against other infections which are golbally accepted.

Dr. Bashaireh stressed on the positive attitude towards the vaccination, as he prefers to talk about this positive attitude rather than the absolute number of the population vaccinated to be safe. This positive attitude is really there in the society that we can see through the increasing awareness among people of the importance of vaccination and the increase in the medical efficiency in dealing with the corona cases, so we can notice the less negative results of the 2nd and 3rd waves of COVID when we compare them to the first wave.

He added that though vaccination protects alot from getting the disease, but even if the vaccinated person caught the disease, it will be milder and with less complications. But we have to be aware that we are not only aiming for the immunity of the person alone, but we are looking for the herd immunity and the saftey of public, so the anyone who gets the acquired immunity from catching the disease, this immunity's time is not long and is not the same for everyone, and here is the role of the vaccination again to increase this time of immunity as well as keeping up with the preventive measures like face masks and social distancing. we don't want an immunized person who could get infected wil mild symptoms infect others that could have the disease with more severe symptoms and complications.

Finally the Dean talked about the pioneering of the universities in Jordan in increasing the health awareness and opening the vaccination centers within their campuses. so their role was positive in the whole stage of COVID pandemic.

To watch the interview ( in Arabic Language) click on the link below

Ro'ya interview with the Dean

 Faculty of Medicine @ Yarmouk University is pleased to announce the launch of the new edition of its website in the internet. This step is one of many to develop and improve the quality of communication between the faculty of medicine/YU and the world represented by institutions or persons. We tried our best to integrate the information availability, the subjects' diversity, the ease of browsing, the involvement of our students and graduates in the editing of this website and finally the benefit for our students, teaching and administrative personnel and our guests from all over the world.

 The website guest can browse through the main menu through all the titles and the submenues that contain valuable information about our medical school as a close-up view of our school of medicine, its strategy, vision, mission, objectives, and personnel, the departments and their branches and the teaching staff. each staff member has her/his own page where all her/his professinal and acdemic information are mentioned as well as her/his links to google scholar and Research Gate pages. Her/His contact information are available in the personal page.

A unique hub for our students and graduates is part of the main menu and the guest can find it directly also in the Home page as a direct window. Quality assurance and accreditation issues and committes have their own submenu. and finally the the (contact us) corner where our guests find the contact information to reach us anytime and from any spot of the world.

 We increased the capacity of the Home page much more than the last edition, Now you can find five rows instead of two with all the information requirements to fill them. We tried our best to introduce the website visitors to different aspects of our medical school like the research summaries of our staff, the code of ethics of our faculty, the table of important links for the students ( the e-learning and exams platforms and their own e-accounts in the univeristy) and the links for the staff, the faculty in the media, the medical conference of the faculty and some changing subjects like ( Against COVID-19) and the subject that we honor our former deans with in the homepage now during this launch celebration season, knowing that the same subject is already permanently placed in the submenu of (About Faculty) in the main menu. 

We hope this edition will be useful and fun for our visitors, and we urge you all to send us your feedback, notes about any negative issue and suggestions for improvement. We call our students and graduates to share in their website with their articles, news and pictures. and we hope they will help the website of their school to be better and better as much as this medical school is proud of its students and graduates.

Finally, The deanship of Faculty of Medicine presents with appreciation many thanks to the members of 'the committee of Faculty of Medicine Website' one by one , and many thanks to the staff of Computer and Information Center in Yarmouk University for the great help.

 Adrenaline batch which graduated at the end of the academic year 2020-2021 recited the medical oath in a ceremony held today ( Sunday / July11th, 2021) in one of the large halls in Prince Hussein Bin Abdullah II halls complex in the YU campus.  The ceremony was under patronage of the University President: Prof. 'Nabeel Hailat' with attendance of vice-presidents, the Dean of Faculty of medicine Prof. Khaldoon Bashaireh, vice dean, the dean asisstants, and the heads of departments in Faculty of Medicine. 

ِAfter the speech of the president and the dean, the students recited the oath after the dean. Then the students and the deanship faculty took the memorial photo with the presidency team.

The preventive procedures, distancing and the maximum number of attendees were taken in consideration during the short ceremony. Faculty of Medicine congratulates the graduates and their families, and wish them the best in their professional life.

The Dean sent a video message to Passion batch in their semi-virtual mini-graduation ceremonies on Thursday August 12th, 2021. This ceremony is an annual occasion celebrating the batch that finishes the basic sciences courses at the end of the third year and is about to start the clinical stage of their medical studies. Last year this ceremony was not held because of the restrictions set to control the pandemic. This year it was held but with the presence of the students in an open hall. The teaching and administrative staff sent their congratulations by video recordings. The Dean gave the students his advices of how to deal with patients and their families, the hospital staff and the clinical teachers. He congratulated them and wished them the best in their clinical life. 

To watch the video , please click on the link below (The language is Arabic)

The video of the dean speech in the mini-graduation

Sunday August 8th, 2021

In today's episode popular TV talk show in Jordan TV ( This evening - Hatha Al-Masaa') hosted by Dr. Mohannad Mbaideen the issue of health situation in Jordan was discussed.

Prof. Khaldoon Bashaireh the Dean of Faculty of Medicine/YU and Dr. Shadi Alshaikh were the guests of the show. Prof. Bashaireh talked about the national program of COVID 19 vaccination , and appreciated the percentage of vaccination in Jordan inspite of the international competition of getting the vaccines. He said it is now about 26% of the Jordan population but the opening of vaccination centers for the public without limitations and the response of the people is encouraging.  Then Dr. Bashaireh expressed his positive view about the health situation in face of COVID 19 as the number of ward beds and ICU bed is enough and the supply of the equipment in all hospitals is in a good shape. 

Then Prof. Khaldoon talked about the role of medical students in this stage. and he answered a question about the rumors and negative opinions about the vaccine and the pandemic in Jordan and the world.  Finally Dr. Bashaireh appealed everyone to adhere to the objectivity when conveying any message regarding this health issue in the media.

To watch this interview ( The interview is in Arabic) 

  click here  This evening talk show 8-8- 2021 

Date of publication: July 7th, 2021

The Deanship of Faculty of Medicine/ YU reminds the medical students in the clinical years of the coming academic year 2021-2022 to get their COVID-19 vaccination done before the start of the new academic year clinical training. This comes in line with our keenness on a safe return of our medical students to clinical training. It's noteworthy that the sixth year training will start on July 11th, 2021.

The deanship is happy to answer any inquiries regarding this issue.

Faculty of Medicine @ YU participated in the activities of the conference titled (Training for medical Education via Innovative e-Technology ), that was held in Faculty of Medicine/ Jordan University in Amman between August 1st and August 12th, 2021 This conference was held in collaboration with ERASMUS + affiliated with Eropean Union , This Program has many projects that a number of Jordanian universities share in. 

Faculty of Medicine/ YU has a partnership with ERASMUS + in two projects; Meditech and iBMS.

Yarmouk University's particpation was through the workshops for teaching  the teaching staff and students, and by attending the conference lectures. Dr. Mazhar Alzoubi the Dean assistant and the associate professor in Basic Medical Sciences-BMS department gave two lectures talking about the faculty's experience in the projects it shared in. 

At the final ceremony the staff and students who particiapted in the workshops received their certificates.

The Dean of faculty of Medicine and the deanship congratulate medical students, teaching and administrative staff and all Arab and Muslim worlds on Eid Al-Adha that shines with the first light rays of Tuesday July 20th, 2021. They wish pilgrims the acceptance and blessings, and wish every one who fasted, prayed and did the good deeds in the first ten days of 'Thee AlHijja'; the arabic holy month and Arafah day to have these good deeds accepted by Allah.

Happy Eid for All