Medicine - Bachelor-degree-of-Medicine-and-Surgery

• To provide a high quality educational program that fulfills the needs of the community and meets high international quality standards.
• To prepare students for independent and life-long learning through mastery of a wide range of transferable skills.
• To prepare students to educate the public about health promotion, disease prevention and control.
• To prepare students to provide and operate quality health care system.
• To conduct research within a stimulating and supportive environment.
• To provide society with high quality medical expertise.
  

The Faculty offers a Bachelor Degree in Medicine and Surgery (MBBCh) where the standard duration of the program is 12 semesters delivered in 6 years. The program is characterized by being student centered, outcome competency based and integrated systems-based. It also provides early introduction to clinical practice.

The medical program is based on outcome competencies and the medical graduate profile (MGF). The outcome competencies and related curriculum learning objectives were bench-marked with the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). However, the content and delivery of the program was adapted to the culture, beliefs and health care system in Lebanon.

The standard duration of the Medical curriculum is 12 semester delivered over 6 years followed by one year of internship. The curriculum comprises three phases:

Phase I:

Pre-clerkship Phase (Semesters 1 to 6), which includes the study of nine modules. Each module integrates basic medical sciences with each other and with some clinical presentations through different learning methods.

Phase II:

Clerkship Phase (Semesters 7 to 10) which includes clinical rotations in Medicine and Medical Subspecialties, Surgery and Surgical Subspecialties, Paediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, and Family Medicine. The medical program in this phase focuses on bed side hospital training and students are learning professional skills in clinical rotations.

Phase III:

Pre-internship Phase (Semesters 11 and 12) which includes clinical rotation in major medical branches together with clinical elective courses. In this phase, the students mostly function as sub-interns and they are responsible for their own patients under supervision.

For an undergraduate degree, applicants must:

• Official Lebanese Baccalaureate Certificate in Life Sciences or General Sciences
  
• Passing entrance exam, measuring proficiency in English Language, an aptitude test (thinking skills, General Knowledge, scientific knowledge: (Biology, Physics, Chemistry).
• Passing an Interview with Faculty members.
  

The Medical Graduate Profile (MGP) describes the outcome competencies which the graduate that should be acquired by the end of the six-year medical program. The MGP competencies are organized according to (ACGME):

1. Population and Patient Care
2. Essential Medical Knowledge
3. Evidence and Practice-Based Learning
4. Communication Skills
5. Ethics and Professionalism
6. Health Care System and Cost Effective Practice

Curriculum competencies and related objectives are organized around five themes

Theme I: Professional Development

Theme II: Medicine and Society

Theme III: Foundations of Medicine

Theme IV: Clinical Practice of Medicine

Theme V: Community

Although all five themes are running throughout the medical program, they are not of equal weight, nor of constant weight. The curriculum outcome competencies and related objectives are distributed along the themes and reflected in themes objectives, contents, learning and teaching approaches and the training environment.

To receive a Bachelor Degree in Medicine and Surgery (MBBCh) a student must complete 204 credit hours with minimum Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 2.0 + (IC3). The following table summarizes the number of credits required for Bachelor granting program at the Faculty of Medicine.

*A total of 14 credits are required as University Requirements:

- 5 credits are University Mandatory Courses: ARAB 001 (2Cr.), ENGL 001 (2Cr.), and BLAW 001 (1Cr.)

- 9 credits are selected from the list of the University Elective Courses; these are referred to as Student Selected Components (SSC) in the study plan.