General information

Main address

2974 North Obhor Dist. 23819-6700, Jeddah

Phone	+966 2 264 600
Fax	+966 2 656 2415
E-mail	dean (at) bmc.edu.sa
WWW	http://www.bmc.edu.sa/

Visitor address

Same as main address

Former names:

• None

Year founded: 2005
Year instruction started: 2006

Private institution

Affiliated to

• King Abdul Aziz University - founded 1967
• Cyberjaya University College of Medical Sciences - founded 2005
• University of Tübingen - founded 1477

Main teaching language: English
Other languages of instruction: None

Title of qualifications awarded: Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery
Abbreviation: MBBS

Years required to graduate: 6 years

Foreign/overseas and national students are admitted

Tuition fees: Some students pay tuition fee

Legal status and affiliations

The medical school is:

• a private institution
• the owner is located in the same country
• a faculty/school/department of the university

Ethnic or religious affiliation

• It does not have non-academic affiliations

The medical school is part of or affiliated to more than one university in the same country:

• King Abdul Aziz University - founded: 1967
• Cyberjaya University College of Medical Sciences - founded: 2005
• University of Tübingen - founded: 1477

Institutional partnership

The medical school has no partner or subordinate educational institutions affiliated to it.

The medical school or faculty does not offer specialised programmes in medicine in addition to the programme leading to a basic medical qualification.

The school is academically linked with training programmes in other major health-care disciplines

• dentistry
• pharmacy
• nursing
• physiotherapy
• other disciplines

Admission

Admission office

Address:

2974 North Obhor Dist. 23819-6700, Jeddah

Phone	+966 2 264 600
Fax	+966 2 656 2412
E-mail	staffairs1.jed (at) bmc.edu.sa
WWW	http://www.bmc.edu.sa/

Visitor address:

Same as main address

Title/position of the person responsible for administration of admission process:

Vice Dean of Student Affairs

Admission requirements

The school applies elements of both national and local requirements

Students are mainly admitted after completion of secondary school education

The school uses the results of a national entrance examination. It does not use its own entrance examination.

An interview is required as part of the admission process

The school:

• admits both female and male students
• admits foreign/overseas students and national students.
• does not admit students with other graduate degrees into a shorter or otherwise different progamme
• does not have an affirmative action programme to support the admission of underrepresented groups, or any other form of programme to support the admission of minority groups
• offers a pre-medical course

Other qualifications than the standard admission requirements accepted:

• none

Tuition fees: Some students pay tuition fee

Foreign/overseas students are eligible to practise in the country after qualification.

Medical programme

Title(s) of the qualification awarded on graduation

In English: Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery
Common abbreviation: MBBS

Structure

Number of years of study required in order to graduate from the programme in basic medical education: 6 years

Actual average number of years of study for students to complete the programme: 6 years

Percentage of admitted students expected to complete the programme: 51 - 80 per cent

The programme in basic medical education last revised: 2008

The programme is:

• divided into two parts - an early pre-clinical phase with no or limited clinical experience, and a following clinical phase
• partly integrated (25 - 49 per cent integrated)
• not a community-based programme with emphasis on family medicine
• lecture-based

Clinical training requirements

- including both theoretical instruction and practical experience

Number of years of the programme which include clinical training: 3.5
Number of weeks of clinical training in the programme: 105
Clinical training is 50 - 74 per cent of the full programme

Number of years of the programme which include time with real patients: 3.5
Number of weeks of the programme which include time with real patients: 109
Time with patients is 50 - 74 per cent of the full programme

Students must satisfy the following requirements for clinical training to be licensed to practise as a medical doctor:

• national requirements concerning clinical training
• the requirements of the medical school's programme in basic medical education
• requirements for completion of a supervised period of clinical practice after graduation such as internship or pre-registration training

Total number of final student assessments/examinations in each year of the programme:

Number of assessments year 1:	4
Number of assessments year 2:	4
Number of assessments year 3:	4
Number of assessments year 4:	4
Number of assessments year 5:	4
Number of assessments year 6:	4

Delivery of the programme in other countries

Arrangements to deliver part of the programme by an institution or institutions in other countries

• voluntary for short term electives or study visits

The medical school offers its programme in any other country

• no, the programme is not offered in any other country

Timing and the academic year

Academic year, average number of weeks: 36

Instruction in year 1 of the programme starts in: Not specified
Instruction in the following years starts in the same month

Total number of scheduled hours of instruction (contact hours) for a student in each year of the programme:

Number of hours year 1:	1290
Number of hours year 2:	885
Number of hours year 3:	1200
Number of hours year 4:	1065
Number of hours year 5:	1125
Number of hours year 6:	840

Numbers of staff and students

Teaching staff

Total number of academic staff employed by the medical school and involved in the teaching process:

Number of full-time staff:	47
Number of part-time staff:

(Figures does not include the hospital and community based clinicians who contribute to the medical programme by supervision of clinical training.)

Other academic staff employed by the health-care system are involved in the teaching process.

Students

Number of full-time students admitted to the first year of the medical programme:

	2007
Men	171
Women	188
Total	359
Foreign/overseas students	14

Number of part-time students admitted to the first year of the medical programme:

None specified

Total number of students in all years of the medical programme (medical student population):

None specified

Number of graduates from the medical programme:

None specified

Teaching facilities and student services

Teaching facilities available for the medical programme:

• group rooms, typically 5 - 12 places
• classrooms, typically 20 - 40 places
• small auditoriums, up to 100 places
• large auditoriums, more than 100 places
• dissection rooms
• anatomical collections/museums
• teaching laboratories
• clinical skills laboratories

Access to hospitals or other clinical facilities for clinical training:

• a hospital/hospitals owned or otherwise affiliated with the medical school
• agreement with a hospital/hospitals

Computer system or network

Available

100 per cent (all) of staff have access to the internet for academic use
100 per cent (all) of students have access to the internet for academic use
100 per cent (all) of total student population can access computers concurrently

Library services

Available

Student support and participation

Medical school/university student services and support:

• academic counselling
• personal, economic and social counselling
• health services
• student housing
• student catering
• sports facilities
• other services or support

Any student organisation at the medical school:

Yes

Student participate in:

• council of the medical school or faculty
• a curriculum committee
• carrying out course evaluations
• carrying out programme evaluations
• other committees, etc.

Recognition, accreditation and quality assurance

The medical school and its programme in medical education are subject to accreditation or a similar process of official recognition.

Authority, agency or agencies responsible for recognition/accredition:

Ministry of Higher Education
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia , Tel: (+966)(1) 2107533

WWW	http://ww.mohe.gov.sa/

Last recognition/accreditation of the school took place in: 2008

Recognition/accreditation valid until: 2013

Duration of the recognition/accreditation of the school: 5

External evaluation, other than as part of an accreditation process, by:

• no

Major changes in the curriculum must be approved by:

• the university

Internal quality improvement and quality assurance mechanisms applied within the medical school

• course evaluation by students
• monitoring of student progress
• staff development courses
• use of external examiners

Frequency of internal quality improvement/quality assurance mechanisms:

some applied every semester, some every year