Department of Family and Community Medicine

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Faculty of Medicine

The College of Medicine at Al-Baha University is one of the colleges of Al-Baha University in the university city of Al-Aqiq province in Al-Baha region. The college was established in 1429 AH corresponding to 2008, and teaching medical students started at the beginning of the academic year 1430/1431 AH. in 1436 AH the female student's section was opened. The leadership of Al-Baha University was keen to establish a medical college with excellence not only locally and regionally but also globally, and from this standpoint, the college worked on the applying a modern system, which has not been applied in many medical colleges in the Kingdom, which is the (Integrated system), where the same subject is studied again at a later stage, which provides a great opportunity to fully absorb the subject. The University Hospital is currently under construction.

About

The Family and community medicine department at Faculty of Medicine in Albaha University, brings together a two interrelated disciplines with the ultimate goal to strength the concepts and principles of primary healthcare clinical practices and managements. The development of future researchers is an important function of the department as we provide the teaching of medical research modules within the curriculum through six longitudinal modules. The department also participate in almost all module teaching activities In particular, we focus and contribute mainly on subjects related to epidemiology, disease prevention and medical ethics.

Modules taught and manged mainly by the department: