Faculty of Medicine- YU held a reception for the new first year medical students , enrolled for the acdemic year 2021-2022 in Al-Kendy hall-Faculty of Arts campus on Thursday 21st, 2021. The reception was under the patronage of the Dean of Faculty of Medicine Professor Khaldoon Bashaireh, It was attended by the the new students and a number of teaching and administrative staff. The reception started with the royal anthem followed by reciting verses of the Holy Quran by the student Majed Namarneh.

The student Emad Al-Zoubi, the toastmaster presented the speakers, first of whom was the Dean of Faculty of Medicine. Dr. Al-Bashaireh improvised a speech to the students, congratulated them for their enrollment to study medicine in Yarmouk University and stressed on taking the responsibility of being medical students and being a future doctors. He gave them some advices that will help them through their academic path and encouaged them to do their best to be safe and competent doctors.

Then, Dr. Laila Matalqa, the Dean Assistant for the students' affairs in basic sciences stage and E-learning talked to the students, congratulating them for their distinguished acheivement in high school and their enrollment in YU medical school. Dr. Matalqa talked about the imprtance of sticking to the rules of the university and the Faculty of Medicine and the reporting lines that will help them preserve their academic rights. She guided them about where they can find these information from personally or through the university literature and documents.

 This talk was followed by a speech given by the Dean Assistant of Accreditation and Quality Assurance Affairs, Dr. Nesreen Bataineh. She emphasized the rules and regulations regarding the academic path and requirments to get their MB.Bs. certificate includinfg the rules of transfer from every yeal level to the next level and the maximum years legally accepted to continue in our medical school till graduation. She talked about the students' guide and the importance on getting the correct information for registeration from this guide and not verbally from unauthorized people.

During the reception many videos were presented to the new comers telling them what and where they can find the important buildings in the university, the Faculty of Medicine campus tour and the awareness of public safety and health during the face-to-face tlearning process which is resumed starting from the first semester. Those safety measures are compatible with the regulations of national health coomitteee to control COVID19 in Jordan and as a positive respone to the defense laws set by the government regarding public health.  There were two other speeches by the students Forat Alomoush and Albaraa Bani Younes. Forat as a representative of the already-enrolled medical students welcomed his new fellows starting their academic steps this semester. and Albaraa as a representative of the new studens.

An instructional presentation for the curriculum and the Dress Code of the Faculty of Medicine was presented by the student Emad Alzoubi . Some encoraging song by the student Suhaib Beshtawi and entertaining paragraphs intersperced between the videos.

Then Dr. Mohammad Akram Awwad gave a presentation about what is important for the new students in the official electronic websites of the university and Faculty of Medicine and where to find the important announcements and news during browsing both sites. 

The final paragraph of the reception was a scientific competition for the new students. This reception was organised by a committee including a number of students and teaching staff. Saftey measures were taken into account during the ceremony.

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 

In collaboration with Yarmouk University, the Civil Defense Directorate held a primary exercise for civil defense activitiesin the Faculty of Medicine campus. This exercise was done yestewrday , Thursday Sept. 16th, 2021. Lieutenant Khalid Obeidat the exercise leader told the website that this exercise includes firefighting work in the case of ground floor fire or fire in the higher floors as well as treatment in cases of chemical and toxic substances leakage and the evacuations. 

Lieutenant Obeidat added that the main comprehensive exercise will be done amid the next week in a date that will be determined in the next few days. Tens of civil defense personnel participated in the primary exercise. Many vehicles with different puposes and ambulance vehicles were in the field during this exercise.

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

 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.