Goals

The following goals of general education speak for the breadth, integration, and scaffolding of knowledge, skills, and attitudes that are embedded in the purpose statement of the institute. All these goals are linked to the outcome competences of all health professions education programs at GMU (Medical expertise, knowledge for practice, life-long learning, teamwork, communication, research and innovations, inter-professional education and above all including new areas such as entrepreneurship). The goals of general education shall:

1. Focus on the essential attitudes and behaviors that promote reflection and encourage life-long learning, wellness, and engagement with ideas, issues, and new experiences.
2. Foster the development of critical thinking; the need to continually update their knowledge and translate the advances in medicine in the delivery of healthcare practice to the benefit of the health of the community; and a capacity for attaining individual perspective on one’s own life through self-examination and the study of others.
3. Engage students in activities that strengthen their ability to read, write, speak, listen, and think effectively using the English language as the primary medium of instruction and communication in their professional practice.
4. Provide students with opportunities to examine and reflect upon moral and ethical problems and issues.
5. Enable students to use technology in order to access and manipulate information competently.
6. Enable students to understand and appreciate the ways social and cultural differences and similarities structure human experiences and knowledge in Islamic studies, history and culture and the social or behavioral sciences. As an important aspect of general education, students shall understand multicultural dimensions of the world in which we live, especially the experiences of people of Arabic descent.
7. Emphasize study in breadth and encourage students to explore the ways scientific inquiry in the health sciences can provide solution to the issues of health and promote wellness in their own lives and to render service to the community that they will serve in the practice of their professions after graduation.
8. Initiate students in innovation process, enable them with basic entrepreneurship skills and make them understand the concepts of sustainability in modern word in the field of their future profession.