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.

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.

 '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.

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. 

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 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.

On Thursday Nov. 11th, 2021 12:00 noon The Dean of Faculty of Medicine Prof. Khaldoon Bashaireh met the Clinical Medical Sciences department council lead by the head of the department Dr. Hasan Albalas. The meeting was attended by the Vice Dean Prof. Zain Alabideen Abdullah and the dean assistants for clinical teaching affairs. 

The Dean and the CMS council discussed different issues regarding teaching process, update of the curriculum, clinical training of medical students in hospital and training centers. The meeting's agenda included the clinical practice of the teaching staff. Questions were answered by the Dean, and suggestions were presented by the CMS staff to improve the academic and professional atmosphere in the faculty of Medicine/YU. 

The minutes of the meeting will be followed up and further meeting to get the updates was planned. 

As encouragement and support of the deanship of Faculty of Medicine YU to the medical students to engage in the research and academic activities, The Dean of Faculty of Medicine Prof. Khaldoon Bashaireh received the group of fifth year medical students (Glory Batch) who are currently attending the orthopedic surgery course to honor them for their involvement in the webinar part of the annual conference of Orthopedic Surgery, arthritis and Muskuloskeletal system. The physical part was held at the same time in Vienna, Austria on Nov. 8-9, 2021. Their attendance was under the affilation to Yarmouk University/Faculty of Medicine and was arranged and supervised by the assistant professors in Orthopedic surgery in the FM/YU  Dr. Mohammad Akram Awwad and Dr. Adel Alshare the orthopedic surgery course coordinator. and with appreciated courtesy of SCIENTEX Conferences the organizers of the webinar.

The medical students attended the presentations done in the webinar online as a new learning experience in addition to lectures and clinical training.

Prof. Bashaireh talked to the students about the importance of attending conferences and then to get involved in research work and get use of such conferences to learn how to present scientific articles infront of a specialized medical audience. He emphasized the skills and personality refinement that such professional activities provide to doctors in their career. Then the Dean presented the conferences certificates that they deserved from the organizers of the webinar who appreciated the Yarmouk University medical students' participation which has a positive impression and shared in the conference success as was mentioned in a letter sent by them.

Memorial photos were taken at the end of the meeting for the students with the Dean and their teachers.

Faculty of Medicine YU held the first Clinical and Translational Research Day CTRD 1 on Wednsday Nov. 10th, 2021 under the patronage of the university president Prof. Islam Massad. The day started with a tour to cover all the research posters that our medical students participated in actively. Most of the researches are published, some are approved to be published and some are in the process of publication. Vice presidents, Prof. Khaldoon Bashaireh the Dean of Faculty of Medicine and his colleagues the members of Deans' council and the Faculty of Medicine staff accompanied the president in the tour.

Medical students presented the abstracts of their researches to the audience, then they gathered in the main conference hall in the faculty campus to start the ceremony of the day. This ceremony started with the Royal anthem then reciting verses of Holy Quran. The toastmaster of the ceremony Dr. Rima Karasneh , the Assistant professor in the Basic Medical Sciences BMS department talked to the audience, thanked the university president for his patronage of the scientific day, and the dean of faculty of medicine for his continuous support of the students and faculty staff to perform research work. She praised the special friendly and professional relationship that pervades the academic atmosphere in our medical school.

 Prof. Khaldoon Bashaireh ,The Dean of Faculty of Medicine then talked to the audience. He thanked the president, vice presidents , his colleagues in the deans' council, Faculty teaching staff and medical students for being part of this scientific day. He talked about CTRD ehen it was an idea , and how did efforts, hard workd and creational thinking turned this idea into a reality. He thanked medical students and faculty staff for their enthusiasm in reseach work hoping that this day will be the first of annual CTRD days in the future for the sake of putting the Faculty of Medicine in distinguished position in world's scientific reasearch. Dr. Bashaireh called for this day to be a nucleus of other such activities for students' research in all the university faculties.

University President Prof. Islam Massad showed in his speech the interest of the presidency in the faculty of medicine, its students and staff and its activities. He appreciated the hard work of medical students in their researches, emphasizing the importance of research during medical schoold studies for every students, whatever the path she/he intends to follow after graduation academic or professional. Submitting a research is a prerequisite in the curriculum to get the MD. certificate.

 Dr. Almutasem Khamis, a graduate in the last batch talked about his personal experience in research work since he was a medical student.  How was the start, the efforts , the learning process the use of COVID lockdown time and the cooperation with faculty teaching staff. He encouaged medical students and graduates to give research work part of their passion and time.

Dr. Ola Soudah , the assistant professor in Basic Medical Sciences BMS department then presented the titles of the winner researches and the names of the winner researchers. The YU president and the Dean of Faculty of Medicine presented the certificates and prizes to the students and graduates winners.

The posters exhibition in the faculty of Medicine campus will be open for the audience for many days.