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Riyadh Medical Education Club

Since the last year the club has been bringing together professionals in medical education from all over the world via educational meetings and publications. The club is a great resource for most of your medical education information. It is a place to interact with colleagues and share questions and answers about every aspect of medical education.

Mission

The club seeks to improve the quality of medical education by bringing together individuals and organizations with interests and responsibilities in medical and healthcare education". 

Values

The club’s values are

  • Education and learning are essential to the delivery of high quality healthcare.
  • Good health professional educators are central in planning, delivering and evaluating high quality education.
  • Individual members of SSME should be supported and developed.
  • High quality research is necessary for the development of health professional elucidators.
  • Vision, innovation and leadership in health professional education are to be fostered

Aim

This program aims to increase SSM members’ awareness of trends in medical education and to provide a forum for those members to become informed on current trends in medical education.

Objectives

  • Promote collaboration among multiple professions including, but not limited to, medicine, nursing, dentistry, pharmacology, and allied health.
  • Build strong relation between members in Riyadh and other regions.
  • Build a national network of medical education experts.
  • Provide opportunities for development of members
  • Encourage and support research and publication
  • Awarded active members by participating in international conferences and some more incentives
  • Develop relationships with other organizations and groupings in medical education

The Medical Education Club Meeting

  • The members of the club meet on regular base to learn and discuss articles relating to medical education.
  • Minimum of eight meeting per year held monthly on the last (Sunday or Monday) of the month at King Fahad Medical City, College of Medicine, (in the main college building).
  • Meetings time is two hours:
    • The first Hour: for presentation of one selected topic, the presenter of which will be either a local or international speaker of a well known experience in medical education.
    • Then half an hour is left for discussion and news.
    • The last half an hour members will be invited for social gathering and dinner.