Medical School
After several years of intense study and careful planning, the Faculty of Medicine was formed with the objectives of producing high quality health care professionals and medical scientists and playing a major role in the development and upgrading of the country's health care system.
Since its establishment in 1973, the Faculty of Medicine has developed into an internationally recognised medical school, serving Kuwait and the Gulf region. The number of students enrolled in the program has increased from 48 in 1976 to the present 90 students per year. The total number of students enrolled in the seven-year medical program is currently 600.
1339 students have completed the seven-year program and received the B.M.,B.Ch. degree since the first batch of students graduated in 1983. The Faculty employs 350 academic, technical and administrative staff.
The departments that make up the body of the Faculty of Medicine include Anatomy, Biochemistry, Community Medicine and Behavioural Science, Medicine, Microbiology, Nuclear Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Paediatrics, Pathology, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Physiology, Primary Care, Psychiatry, Radiology and Surgery. The Faculty has moved into a system based case-triggered integrated curriculum from academic year 2006-07. As a prelude to this, the curriculum of the Health Sciences Centre common year has been revised incorporating medically oriented basic courses, to be taught by the Health Sciences Centre staff.
Seven departments are currently running graduate programs, Anatomy, Biochemistry, Microbiology, Pathology, Physiology, Pharmacology and Nuclear Medicine. Since the programs began in 1983, more than 100 students have graduated. The Departments of Microbiology and Physiology are running both M.Sc. and Ph.D. programs. The Department of Pathology is approved to admit their first batch of Ph.D. students during the 2007-08 academic year.
In addition to Mubarak Al-Kabeer hospital, other facilities utilised for teaching purposes are Al-Amiri, Al-Adan, Maternity, Farwania, Jahra, Ahmadi, Sabah, Chest, Al-Razi, Psychiatric and Ibn Sina hospitals, as well as several polyclinics throughout Kuwait.
Teaching facilities housed inside the modern five storey medical school building include four lecture theatres, an auditorium, eight seminar rooms, seven multi�discipline laboratories, as well as a number of demonstration, seminar and conference rooms in the departments.
In addition, facilities at the newly commissioned Health Sciences Centre building are available to the use of the Faculty. A distance learning centre connecting two lecture theatres, Anatomy Dissecting room, a consultation room at the Faculty and an operation theatre at Mubarak Al-Kabeer hospital has already been commissioned. A virtual hospital (clinical skills lab) will be established shortly.
The technical facilities available to academic staff and students for research and teaching compare to those of older and more established institutions elsewhere in the world. As part of its increasing commitment to research and dedication to academic excellence, the Faculty maintains an equipment inventory in excess of 6 million Kuwaiti Dinars and includes three Jeol electron microscopes (one scanning and two transmissions), a General Electric gamma camera with an associated Star Computer, and a Siemens angiography unit. There are also several ultra centrifuges, gamma and beta counters, amino acid analyser in addition to numerous other sophisticated scientific and medical instruments.
The Faculty maintains a full complement of highly qualified biomedical engineers to maintain and repair most scientific equipment.
In addition to the professional services provided by the clinical academic staff serving the teaching hospital and the specialised units in other hospitals, each department in the Faculty of Medicine provides special services for the Ministry of Health including consultation services in various hospitals, sophisticated diagnostic tests, and a variety of highly specialised procedures including Therapeutic Drug Monitoring and Toxicological Screening, as well as conducting seminars and workshops to the medical community.
In addition to the teaching of medical students, the Faculty of Medicine also offers various courses of studies for the students of the Faculties of Allied Health Sciences, Pharmacy and Dentistry.
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