DOHA: Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar (WCMC-Q) has signed a memorandum of understanding with the US-based Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine (AAIM) that fosters professional development of medical faculty.
AAIM members will collaborate with WCMC-Q’s Division of Continuing Professional Development to help faculty at the college incorporate latest advances in student and medical resident education into their skills sets.
Dr Thurayya Arayssi, Associate Professor of Medicine and Associate Dean for Continuing Professional Development, WCMC-Q, heads the team that has developed the relationship between WCMC-Q and AAIM.
She said, “We are pleased to have entered into this agreement with AAIM, which we feel will be of huge benefit to faculty and students at WCMC-Q.
“What AAIM offers is an extraordinarily effective organisational structure that will allow our faculty to interact with leading experts in medical education from elite medical institutions.
“This relationship will help us ensure that the highly skilled faculty at WCMC-Q consolidate and enhance abilities to provide a world-class medical education to our students.”
Based in Virginia, AAIM is a consortium of five academic medical organisations that collectively represent departments of internal medicine at some of the best teaching hospitals across the US and Canada.
It facilitates sharing expertise that teaching institutions can draw upon to support their efforts to achieve the highest educational standards in their internal medicine programmes.
A two-day activity addressing recent advances in student and medical resident education is scheduled to take place at WCMC-Q this November.
It will feature keynote lectures and workshops developed by a team of expert medical educators from the US, Qatar, the UAE, Oman and Lebanon. It will also build upon pedagogical skills of the faculty relating to the assessment of Entrustable Professional Activities, re-mediating the struggling learner and being a digital citizen.
The Peninsula
