Vision & Mission

Thumbay College of Management and AI in Healthcare

Vision

To be a leading College of Management and AI in Healthcare in the UAE, known for its unique, integrative, practice-centered programs and excellence in teaching and scholarly activity.

Mission

To develop future-ready healthcare leaders by integrating knowledge, analytical, and decision-making skills of the next generation of healthcare professionals who will discover, disseminate, and preserve knowledge in a spirit of free and fair intellectual inquiry.

College Goals – The Strategic Imperative

1. Capitalize on the GMU–Thumbay Health Ecosystem
   Leverage Gulf Medical University’s reputation as a leading medical institution and the expansive Thumbay healthcare network—including hospitals, pharmacies, clinics, and labs across multiple countries—to create a distinctive academic experience.
2. Integrate Medical and Managerial Excellence
   Design and deliver programs that blend core medical knowledge with practical training in healthcare operations, ensuring students develop industry-relevant, practice-oriented competencies.
3. Cultivate a Future-Ready Learning Culture
   Establish a professional, collaborative, and intellectually rich academic environment that aligns with the evolving needs of the healthcare and AI sectors.
4. Deliver Advanced, Industry-Relevant Curriculum
   To meet real-world healthcare challenges, provide students with cutting-edge knowledge and tools in health economics, healthcare policy, strategic management, and artificial intelligence.
5. Graduate Ethical and Impactful Professionals
   Instill the highest standards of professional ethics, responsibility, and leadership to prepare graduates globally for influential roles across healthcare systems.
6. Forge Global and Local Partnerships
   Build lasting partnerships with leading healthcare organizations, academic institutions, and AI innovators to expand research, education, and career development opportunities.

Executive Master in Healthcare Management and Economics

Program Vision

To be a leading executive program in healthcare management and economics in the region known for its practice oriented clinical approach to decision making.

Program Mission

The mission of the Executive Master in Healthcare Management and Economics is to provide health­care executive with the tools, knowledge and skills needed to become an effective socially responsible leader capable of handling today’s complex and highly competitive healthcare industry environment. The program is grounded on a unique integrative approach that leverage the relations with both medi­cal colleges and the healthcare industry including hospitals, pharmacy chain, clinics and labs in order to produce a culturally sensitive graduates.

EMHME Program Goals

1. Develop a supportive and engaging intellectual learning and practice-oriented curriculum based on critical thinking, problem solving, and innovation that’s capable of addressing special­ized complex issues in the health industry.
2. Craft a unique integrative approach of learning grounded on providing students with essential medical knowledge and practice-oriented curriculum by leveraging relationship with medical colleges and GMU affiliated hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, labs and insurance business.
3. Provide students with leading edge knowledge and techniques in health economics, policy and healthcare management to allow them to manage strategic change, deal with complex health­care policy issues and be effective leader in the health industry.
4. Enhance students’ knowledge of business functions, leadership and professional skills as it applies to health organizations in order to be capable of making sound decisions.
5. Help students to work independently, in teams and to take responsibility, assume leadership and to develop the highest professional standards and work ethics.
6. Enhance students’ essential medical knowledge, terminology and the industry unique culture in order be able to communicate effectively with various stakeholders in the health industry.

Master in AI and Health Informatics

Program Vision

To foster innovation and expertise in AI-driven healthcare, shaping a future where technology enhances equitable and quality health outcomes.

Program Mission

Producing competent AI and Health Informatics professionals by integrating cutting-edge research, interdisciplinary collaboration, and real-world application, ensuring the development of ethical and sustainable healthcare solutions.

MAIHI Program Goals

1. To explain healthcare system foundations and key challenges associated.
2. To describe ethical considerations, frameworks, and guidelines in health informatics
3. To apply data science and big data analytics techniques to solve real-world healthcare problems.
4. To analyze healthcare data using artificial intelligence techniques, machine learning models, and predictive analytics.
5. To demonstrate leadership skills in strategy development and change management within the AI and health informatics domain.
6. To conduct a field research project on identified problems in healthcare using AI and health informatics.

Bachelor of Science in Healthcare Management and Economics

Program Vision

To be a leading undergraduate program focusing on the health industry in the region known for its leading edge knowledge and practice oriented clinical approach to learning.

Program Mission

The mission of the Bachelor of Science in Healthcare Management and Economics is to provide students with the knowledge, tools and skills needed to become an effective socially responsible, innovative professionals in the unique health industry culture – capable of handling today’s complex, changing and highly competitive health industry environment. As such the program incubation philosophy is grounded on a unique integrative practice-oriented approach that address contemporary organizational and business issues in the health industry.

BSc.HME Program Goals

1. Provide students with leading edge knowledge and techniques in health economics, policy and healthcare management needed to make sound decision in the highly changing and turbulent healthcare industry.
2. Design a unique integrative approach grounded on providing students with essential medical knowledge and a practice oriented curriculum by leveraging relationship with medical colleges and GMU affiliated hospitals, pharmacy chain, labs and clinics and insurance business.
3. Develop a supportive and engaging learning and practice oriented curriculum based on critical thinking, problem solving, and innovation capable of addressing specialized complex healthcare issues.
4. Provide students with functional business knowledge, professional skills, and strategic trends in the health industry incompliance with health regulatory standards and grounded on the highest professional standards and work ethics.
5. Help students develop essential medical knowledge, terminology and appreciate the health industry unique culture in order to communicate effectively with various stakeholders.
6. Help students to work independently, in teams and to enhance their leadership skills.