NEWS
September 30, 2018
Inter-Professional Education is a collaborative approach to develop healthcare students as future inter-professional team members. Involving patients as partners in inter-professional education enhances students’ understanding of their experiences and encourages the patient centred practice. The aim of Inter-Professional Education is...
September 16, 2018
Gulf Medical University, College of Medicine held its annual White Coat Ceremony for its new MBBS, BBMS and ADPCS students on September 5, 2018. In this symbolic event, students of 2018 batch took the oath and proudly put on their white coats in an inspirational and moving event that was attended by students, families, college and...
July 23, 2018
Faculty of Medicine, Prof. Jayadevan Sreedharan, Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics won the ‘Best Presentation Award’ in the session on Tobacco Use during the 4th International Conference on Public Health held in Bangkok, Thailand. He presented a paper titled “Cross-sectional Study on Tobacco Use among Adult Population...
July 16, 2018
A farewell party was organized by the College of Medicine for the first cohort of graduating students of the Bachelor of Biomedical Science (BBMS) program on July 10, 2018 at GMU campus. Prof. K. G. Gomathi, BBMS Program Director welcomed the Chief Guest, (Prof. Manda Venkatramana, Vice Provost Academics), faculty members and students...
July 7, 2018
World No Tobacco Day (WNTD) is one of the major events observed by World Health Organization (WHO) and other partners of WHO every year on 31 May. The member states of the WHO created World No Tobacco Day in 1987 to draw global attention to the epidemic of tobacco use. The importance of this event is to highlight and create awareness about...
June 13, 2018
World Hypertension Day 2018 is celebrated on May 17, 2018. The theme for World Hypertension Day this year is to Know Your Numbers with a goal of increasing awareness about high blood pressure (BP) in all populations around the world. The Mini Project on World Hypertension Day was conducted on Monday, May 14, 2018 at GMU. The activities...
May 14, 2018
The World Health Organization (WHO) observes World Health Day on 7th April every year. The theme of this year is “Universal Health Coverage [UHC]: Everyone, Everywhere” and the slogan of this year is “Health for All”. Under the supervision of the Community Medicine Department, the sophomores of the MBBS program organized...
May 9, 2018
World Asthma Day was celebrated on May 1, 2018 with the theme “Never too early, never too late. It’s always the right time to address airways disease”. Organized by Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA), this year marks the 20th Annual World Asthma Day in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO). To mark...
March 7, 2018
Bachelor of Biomedical Science students with the faculty visited the 4th Annual Nobel Museum Exhibition on February 5, 2018 organized by the Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Foundation (MBRF) in Dubai and also participated in the workshop. The theme of the event was “The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Connecting...
February 24, 2018
More than 2000 people, including families visited Thumbay Medical & Dental Specialty Center, Sharjah to attend the free mega health camp organized as part of Thumbay Group’s CSR program, on Friday, 16th February 2018. The event was organized with the aim of promoting health awareness among the public and offering them easy access to...