Program Overview
The Family Medicine Residency Program received accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education International (ACGME-I) in 2013 for the Initial Accreditation of the Family Medicine residency program, and in 2015, the Family Medicine Residency Program successfully achieved the ACGME-I Advanced Specialty Accreditation. The Advanced Specialty Accreditation has been extended to this date subject to regular site visits and/or program reviews.
Family Medicine Residency Program began the inaugural class in October 1995 under Hamad Medical Corporation with the admission of the first batch of 5 residents. The pilot residency program graduated the first batch of 5 specialists in Family Medicine in 1999. Since then, the Family Medicine residency program has run for over than 29 years with an average of 7-13 resident posts offered annually to applicants locally from Qatar and internationally. As of December 2023. the program has currently graduated a total of 179-strong well-trained Family Medicine graduates with the following details: 45 of them have become Senior Consultant, 57 consultants, 77 specialists.
Family Medicine residency program is a competitive, highly regarded residency program that provides high-quality clinical care to patients in Qatar. Our program offers a remarkable training experience for our residents, and it is tailored to develop candidates who are interested in the opportunity to support patients in facing the challenges of home and family life, to accompany a patient on the journey through life, and to provide patient-centered treatment to the multicultural population of Qatar.
For our residents, we look for enterprising, innovative, and engaged graduates ready to embrace this unique opportunity. We invite you to consider becoming part of the Family Medicine residency team. And whatever your further plans, we’ll do our best to prepare you to achieve them.
Goals and Objectives
Overall Educational Goals:
- Family Medicine Residency Training Program in Qatar aims to graduate highly competent and up to date qualified Family Physicians who confidently able to lead the health care system in Qatar providing continuous, evidenced based and highest health care service standards for a variety of patient population.
- These health services will be provided with effective interpersonal communication skills taking in consideration sensitivity to contextual issues (culture, age, gender, sexual orientation, and disabilities) with intension to achieve a comprehensive coverage of acute as well as chronic diseases and health problems.
- These newly graduated specialists will be capable of leading the academic part development by mentoring juniors and throughout research conduction and quality improvement projects to meet all health care needs of the society including preventive services in order to tackle all mysteries of health care problems.
- Furthermore, our graduates will be well prepared to provide a data base for researches and guidelines development fulfilling the international standards with the ambition to be the leader of the region in the medical field services.
To achieve level of excellence, following objectives should be fulfilled by all graduates by the end of the residency program.
- Ability to appropriately investigate, diagnose and provide an excellent, holistic patient and family centered curative and preventive care to a variety of patient’s category regardless age, gender, nationality and cultural background.
- Ability to demonstrate an excellent medical knowledge and critical thinking skills
- Ability to improve quality care and patient safety in a very cost-effective manner.
- Ability for self-growth and development planning based on self and constructive criticism, evidence-based medicine and reflective practice.
- Ability to deal with the patients in a professional way based on ethical principles and values
- Ability to demonstrate excellent interpersonal and communication skills as a person, leader and a team member.
- Ability to develop and use the available resources and statistical database for quality improvement and research purposes
Clinical Training and Key Rotations
Postgraduate year 1
Clinical Attachment/ Community rotation
FM Orientation rotation
MED Inpatient rotation
MICU rotation
Medicine Rotations: OPD RH NP ID HM NU Gl CH EN
SURG Inpatient rotation
Daycare/ER rotation
OPD/Uro rotation
Psych Inpatient rotation
PEC rotation
PEC/NICU rotation
Postgraduate year 2
OB & GYN rotation
Ortho rotation
Sport Medicine rotation
MED Inpatient rotation
Cardio rotation
Geriatric rotation
Psych. Inpatient rotation
PED Inpatient rotation
PED OPD rotation
LAB/RAD rotation
Postgraduate year 3
ENT rotation
ENT/Oral Health rotation
OPTH PHC rotation
OPTH HMC/ A&E rotation
A&E rotation
Derma HMC rotation
Derma PHCC rotation
Med In pat rotation
PSYCH/A&E rotation
Elective rotation
Elective /Podiatry rotation
Smoking/ Obesity rotation
Postgraduate year 4
PHCC ANC rotation
PHCC WBC rotation
PHCC Triage rotation
FM clinics rotation
Contact Information
Program Director:
Dr. Muna Taher Aseel
Associate Program Director(s):
Dr. Fawziya Al-Hor, Dr. Muneera Al-Muhannadi
Program Coordinator:
Mr. Ady Candra Effendy, MPH, Mr. Mohamed Aslam.
Program Email:
aeffendy@phcc.gov.qa; msyed@phcc.gov.qa;
Additional fields/details:
Faculty information
Full-Time Faculty
- Isameldin Abdelbagi
- A. Mutaleb El-Qawasmeh
- Youssef Nauf
- Mohamed Salem Nasralla Saleh
- Saleh Attal
- Mohamed Hashim Mahmoud
- Hassan Abbas Youssef Tawfik
- Ahmad Bawazir
- Dr Hani Abdalla
- Dr Rasha Mousa
- Nashwan Zainal Deen
Research highlights/programs
Multiple studies have been published in reputable journals regionally and internationally, including BMJ, MEJFM, Springer, and others.
Facilities and Resources
FM residents are granted access to libraries services provided by PHCC and HMC as well as study rooms in QNL, ITQAN, and other facilities in Qatar.
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