Officials with affiliate doctors at the honouring ceremony.
DOHA: Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar (WCM-Q) has honoured the work of 467 local physicians who share their knowledge and experiences to help train the college’s students.
They were presented with WCM-Q doctor’s white coat and business cards at a ceremony at Hamad Medical Corporation’s (HMC) Hajar Auditorium.
As part of medical training, WCM-Q students in the final two years of their degrees spend 55 weeks on clinical clerkships in affiliated institutions, including Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), where they can begin to apply knowledge they have gained in the classroom and acquire hands-on skills to be a fully qualified doctor under the supervision of physicians affiliated with WCM-Q.
Dr. Javaid Sheikh, Dean, WCM-Q, said the work of WCM-Q’s affiliate doctors is invaluable to the education of the next generation of doctors and the future of healthcare in Qatar.
The affiliates practice in institutions, including HMC; Sidra Medical and Research Center; Aspetar Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital; Primary Health Care Corporation; and Feto-Maternal Center.
Dr. Sheikh said, “As a medical college we can teach our student doctors how to diagnose illnesses, how to provide comfort and support and how to save lives. However, it is the doctors at our affiliate institutions who show them how to put that knowledge into practice.
“Among them, our faculty colleagues at WCM-Q’s affiliates have experience that can be learned through decades of work in hospitals, clinics, surgeries and healthcare centres. It is this knowledge and wisdom in fields as varied as obstetrics, internal medicine, surgery, neurology, psychiatry and paediatrics they are passing on to our students,” he added.
Dr. Abdulla Al Ansari, Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Surgical Services, HMC, and Associate Dean, Clinical Medicine, WCM-Q, said the relationship between HMC and WCM-Q is getting stronger every day.
“WCM-Q students join us for surgery and on our ward rounds and all students I have seen are enthusiastic, up-to- date and energetic. That means we have to keep up with them; when you have energetic students it energises their doctors and teachers. They have a very positive effect on the environment and it means they also have good relationships with nurses and patients,” he said.
